Ina Fried
Ina Fried is an actor, born 1974.
This page is a short child-actor filmography attached to a technology journalist. Fried, born in Akron, Ohio in 1974, worked on screen as a kid in the early 1980s, credited then under her former name: Rocky Balboa Jr. in Rocky III, the voice of Timothy in the animated The Secret of NIMH, both released in 1982, plus a segment of National Lampoon's Movie Madness and an appearance on St. Elsewhere in the same year. The Willies in 1990 is the last of it.
The career that followed is the one she is known for. She was a senior staff writer at CNET's News.com, senior editor at All Things Digital, then at Re/code, and now covers technology for Axios, with regular commentary on NPR and broadcast news. Five screen credits from childhood and three decades on the Silicon Valley beat is an unusual shape for a page like this one, and the acting is genuinely the footnote.
Movies (4)
TV (1)
Where to start with Ina Fried
For anything beyond curiosity, watch The Secret of NIMH. Her voice work genuinely matters to it: Timothy is the sick child whose fever drives every decision the film makes, so the whole plot rests on a small boy sounding genuinely unwell rather than cute.
Rocky III is the famous credit and the smaller part, a few scenes of Balboa domesticity wedged between training montages. St. Elsewhere is the interesting one for television historians, since that show was rewriting the hospital drama while she was on it. The Willies is a kids' horror anthology and closes out the acting career.