Mackenzie Astin Biography

Fast Facts

• His performance in "The Facts of Life" earned him a 1986 Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actor in a Television Series
• He was only 9 years old when he appeared in his first made for television movie, "Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal․"
• As an adult, he transitioned from child and teen television roles to make his mark in independent films
• One of his best known roles was in prep school sitcom "The Facts of Life․"
• From 2005 to 2010, he worked at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland with his father, who was serving as the Director of the Program in Theatre Arts and Studies there
• He and Dominic Monaghan were roommates for a time
• While filming "Iron Will," the sled dogs pulling the sled he was riding on ran off the path and broke the sled against a tree, but no one, animals included, was injured