David Mazouz

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David Albert Mazouz (; born (2001-02-19)February 19, 2001) is an American actor, best known for his leading role as Bruce Wayne in Fox’s Batman-prequel TV drama Gotham (2014–2019). Mazouz started his acting career with several guest roles before joining the Fox TV series Touch (2012–2013), for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award. He has had leading roles in the films The Games Maker and The Darkness.

Mazouz was born in February 19, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Michel Mazouz, is a physician from Tunisia, and his mother, Rachel Cohen, is a Greek psychotherapist whose parents are Greek Jews. He has a sister, Rebecca. He was a student at Shalhevet High School, a Modern Orthodox Jewish school, from 2015 to 2019 and appeared in a music video promoting the school. His Bar Mitzvah service was held at the Orthodox Young Israel of Century City in February 2014. In fall 2019, he began attending Stanford University studying economics, psychology, and computer science and graduated in 2023.
Mazouz and his family are mainly of Sephardic Jewish descent, on top of David being of Tunisian and Greek ancestry from his parents, he additionally holds American…