Tenzing Norgay Trainor

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Tenzing Norgay Trainor (born September 4, 2001) is an American actor. He gained notability for his role as Parker Rooney on the Disney Channel television show Liv and Maddie (2013–2017) and the voice of Jin in the animated adventure film Abominable (2019) and its follow-up Abominable and the Invisible City (2022–2023). He also appeared in TV shows including Good Luck Charlie, The Jadagrace Show, and Stevie TV.

Tenzing Norgay Trainor was born on September 4, 2001, in Los Angeles, California, to Clark Tulley Trainor and Deki Tenzing Norgay. He is of Nepalese and Tibetan descent on his mother’s side. His maternal grandfather is Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who, together with Edmund Hillary, was the first to climb Mount Everest. He has two younger brothers, Kalden and Yonden, and played football since the age of six.
He grew up in Florida where he, at the age of eight, started acting at Paladin Playhouse Theater in Fort Lauderdale theater camp. His father forced him into the theater camp so that he could learn how to speak in front of people. After returning to California, he started his acting career with appearances in TV series like Stevie TV…