Nicolas Cantu

Nicolas Cantu (born September 8, 2003), also known as Junky Janker,^[1] is an American actor, animator, stand-up comedian and YouTuber.

Nicolas Cantu
Born	(2003-09-08) September 8, 2003 (age 21) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, animator, stand-up comedian, YouTuber
Years active	2014–present
YouTube information
Subscribers	419 thousand (November 2024)
Creator Awards

Career

Cantu is best known for his role as Gumball in The Amazing World of Gumball, and as Prince James in Sofia the First for 14 episodes from 2016 to 2018. On YouTube, his channel currently has over 400 thousand subscribers.^[2] In 2020, Cantu starred in The Walking Dead spin-off series set a decade after the original one, named The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and recently in 2023, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie	Curly	Voice; TV Movie
2017	The Impossible Joy	Tomas	Short Film
2017	Vikes	Joey
2022	The Fabelmans	Hark
2023	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Leonardo	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role
2016–2017	Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures	Rowan Freemaker (voice)
2016–2018	Future-Worm!	Paco
2016–2018	Sofia the First	Prince James (14 episodes) (voice)
2016–2019	The Powerpuff Girls	Additional voices
2017–present	The Amazing World of Gumball	Gumball Watterson (voice)
2018	The Good Place	Raymond (1 episode)
2019–present	Middle School Moguls	Winston (voice)
2019	DuckTales	B.O.Y.D. (voice) (1 episode)
2019–2020	The Unicorn	Andrew
2019–present	DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders	Dak (voice)
2020	The Walking Dead: World Beyond	Elton
2022	Family Guy	High School Kid by the Bleachers (voice) (1 episode)
2023	Skull Island	Charlie (voice) (8 episodes)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2018	Annie Award	Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production	The Amazing World of Gumball "The Grades"	Nominated