Haley Tju
Haley Tju is an actor, born 2001.
Haley Tju has been working since she was a child, and the interesting thing about her career is which half of it took over. She started in live action: a small part in Burning Palms, the Disney Channel film Den Brother in 2010, Eileen Miller on Jessie, brief turns on Go On and The New Normal, then Pepper Silverstein across the Nickelodeon sitcom Bella and the Bulldogs. That is a standard American child-actor resume and it could easily have ended there.
Instead she became a voice actor, and a busy one. Nu Hai in DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, Karmi in Big Hero 6 The Series, Wenda in Where's Waldo?, Alia in the Arlo films and series, Stella Zhau on The Loud House, and above all Marcy Wu in Disney's Amphibia, the role she is now best known for and the one that gave her the most to play.
What she does well is the register just under a shout: bright, quick, slightly too much, the kid who has already read the manual and needs everyone to know it. That is a specific and hard-to-fake energy, and animation keeps hiring it. She has kept a foot in live action too, including Veronica in The Afterparty, but the voice work is now the career.
Movies (5)
TV (15)
- Jessie (2011)
- Amphibia (2019)
- Big Hero 6 The Series (2017)
- The Afterparty (2022)
- The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015)
- Go On (2012)
- Chibiverse (2022)
- The New Normal (2012)
- Bella and the Bulldogs (2015)
- Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (2018)
- I Heart Arlo (2021)
- BAT-FAM (2025)
- Where's Waldo? (2019)
- Theme Song Takeover (2019)
- Prince of Peoria (2018)
Where to start with Haley Tju
Begin with Amphibia. Marcy Wu is the part that uses everything she has, the show is genuinely well made, and it is the only credit here where you will come away thinking about the performance rather than the character design. After that, Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny is the straightforward action-adventure option, and Big Hero 6 The Series gives her Karmi, a nicely prickly counterweight in a cast of very nice people.
The younger-skewing end is Where's Waldo? and the Arlo pair, Arlo the Alligator Boy and I Heart Arlo, which are cheerful and musical and aimed squarely at small children. For live action, Bella and the Bulldogs is the sitcom she grew up on and The Afterparty is the grown-up credit, a small part in a very good comedy.