David Faustino | |
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David Faustino at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Born |
David Anthony Faustino March 3, 1974 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, rapper, radio personality on Dash Radio |
Years active | 1980–present |
Partner(s) | Lindsay Bronson |
Children | 1 |
David Anthony Faustino (born March 3, 1974) is an American actor and rapper primarily known for his role as Bud Bundy on the FOX sitcom Married... with Children and for voicing Mako in The Legend of Korra.
David Faustino is currently the host of Old Scratch Radio Sundays on Skee 24/7 on Dash Radio.
Faustino was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 3, 1974, to Roger and Kay Faustino, a costumer. His older stepbrother Jeff Leiber is also an actor, and his younger brother Michael made many guest appearances on Married... with Children, including the episode David wrote, "T*R*A*S*H".
Faustino made his television debut at the age of three months when he appeared on the Lily Tomlin Special. He did not start regularly acting until 1980 after a smaller part on Little House on the Prairie. Throughout the early to mid-1980s, Faustino guest-starred on many well-known TV shows such as Family Ties, St. Elsewhere, and The Love Boat. He also guest-starred in many not-so-well-known TV shows, but in 1987, he landed a full-time gig on Married... with Children.
Fox's Married... with Children was Faustino's big break, as he played Bud, the younger of the two Bundy children. He played the character from its debut on April 5, 1987, until its final episode broadcast on June 9, 1997. Faustino appeared in 259 episodes. While filming the sitcom throughout the 1990s, Faustino continued to make guest appearances in many sitcoms and dramas. He reprised the role of Bud Bundy in such shows as Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Top of the Heap. Faustino also appeared in Burke's Law, MADtv, and The New Addams Family.