Walker Scobell is an American actor. He has starred in the 2022 action comedy films The Adam Project and Secret Headquarters. In 2023, he began playing the title character of Percy Jackson in the Disney+ fantasy series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Early life

Scobell was born on January 5, 2009, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Heather Scobell and Pete Scobell in a military family.He has an older sister and younger brother. Scobell lived in Colorado until the family moved to Fairview, Pennsylvania, where his parents grew up. In elementary school, he attended drama class. He went to Fairview Middle School and acted in the school's production of Mary Poppins. Shortly after, he attended a John D'Aquino acting workshop, hired a manager and signed to an agency. When not traveling or on set, he goes to Fairview High School.