Calum Worthy
Calum Worthy is an actor, born 1991.
Most people met him on the Disney Channel, but the credits start earlier and smaller: a kid on a bike in Scooby-Doo 2, a boy in Dr. Dolittle 3, a teenage cyborg in The Last Mimzy, single episodes of Psych and Kyle XY. Wikipedia records two Young Artist Awards and a 2010 Leo Award for the series Stormworld, which is not among the credits listed here. Austin & Ally then made him a recognisable face as Dez Wade for the length of its run, playing the loud friend, which is usually a career sentence rather than a launchpad.
He got out of it by doing the least obvious thing available. Alex Trimboli in American Vandal and Nick Godejohn in The Act are both built on the same difficult skill: playing a person whose sincerity you cannot verify. Trimboli is a witness whose account the series spends eight episodes weighing, and Worthy plays him without ever telling the audience how to read him. Godejohn is a real man in a real criminal case, and the performance refuses the obvious signals, which is what makes it uncomfortable rather than lurid. Both parts work because that open, guileless face keeps meaning two things at once.
Since then it has been genre and independents rather than a clean ascent: Kellan Woods across both Thinning films, Adam in the battle-rap comedy Bodied, Aidan in Corporate Animals, Zack Jackson in Reboot, voice work in Pacific Rim: The Black, and Joshua Armitage in Sew Torn. He also produces, and the pattern of the page suggests someone choosing awkward material on purpose.
Movies (15)
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
- Sew Torn (2025)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
- Assimilate (2019)
- The Thinning (2016)
- What Goes Up (2009)
- Corporate Animals (2019)
- Best Player (2011)
- Rapture-Palooza (2013)
- Bodied (2018)
- Mulligans (2008)
- Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? (2014)
- The Thinning: New World Order (2018)
- Daydream Nation (2011)
TV (12)
Where to start with Calum Worthy
Everything worth arguing about here starts with American Vandal. It is the best thing here and the clearest demonstration of what he can do, an entire performance balanced on whether you believe a teenager, and it is very funny before it is anything else. The Act is the harder watch and the better acting, a true-crime series that would collapse if he played the part for sympathy or for menace, and he plays it for neither. Bodied is the wild card, an abrasive satire about competitive rap where he is deliberately the least comfortable person on screen. Austin & Ally shows what he was escaping. Reboot is the most enjoyable of the later comedies, and The Thinning is the young-adult dystopia that paid for the interesting choices.