Adam Hicks
Adam Hicks is an actor, born 1992.
Hicks was a Disney product in the most literal sense, which is to say the machine found him early and used him well. Born in Las Vegas in 1992, he was on television as a child, credited as the five-year-old version of a character in the sitcom Titus, and his first leading film role came in 2006 with How to Eat Fried Worms.
The Disney years are the ones people remember. Zeke and Luther gave him Luther Waffles, a skateboarding sidekick played at full volume, and Lemonade Mouth gave him Wen Gifford in a musical about a school band, which finally let him use the rapping and singing he was pushing alongside the acting. In between came a recurring turn as DZ in the second season of JONAS L.A. and a co-lead as Boz in the third season of Pair of Kings, arriving into a show that already had its shape and handling it by playing the character as an oddity rather than a replacement.
What follows is the familiar shape of a child performer's twenties: the teen serial Freakish, the historical miniseries Texas Rising, a thriller part in The Boy Next Door, an uncredited police officer in Aftermath, and a small 2025 film. He is a better comic actor than most of the post-Disney roles have asked him to be.
Movies (7)
TV (7)
Where to start with Adam Hicks
Meet him in Zeke and Luther, the show built around the one thing he does really well: playing a loud, committed idiot without ever condescending to the character. Luther Waffles is broader than anything else here and the only role that runs long enough to develop.
Lemonade Mouth is the better single sitting, and the one that uses his music, which is the half of him the acting credits keep leaving out. Go back to How to Eat Fried Worms for the child performer at the start, then Pair of Kings for the hardest gig of the Disney years and JONAS L.A. for the smallest. Later on, The Boy Next Door and Texas Rising show an adult career trying to find a lane, and Freakish is the one that came closest to fitting.