Colin DePaula

Best known for providing the voice over of Peter in the American Nickelodeon children's TV Series Peter Rabbit for its first season, Colin DePaula was born in L.A. on April 29th, 1999, but moved to New York when he was 3 years old. His father Paul was part of the touring company of Doug Henning's "The Magic Show". He has two sisters, named Lily and Juliet. He presently resides in Brooklyn and is home-schooled. Colin is also known for his collaborations with fellow American child actress Michaela Dean, such as in the English dub version of Mai Mai Miracle, the first season of Nickelodeon's Peter Rabbit, and one episode of Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. If there's a movie actor that inspired Colin, he says that it's Andrew Varela [Inspector Javert]. Colin's acting career started with voicing the character of Shiro in the English dub version of the Japanese animated film Mai Mai Miracle. In 2010, his mother coached him into several leading roles. These included the title role in "Oliver", (NCT, Brooklyn), the title role in the Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on December 17, 2010, (Transfiguration Concert Series, Manhattan), and landing the role of Gavroche in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of "Les Miserables" back in 2011. He has also become a voice-over artist, voicing the role of Peter in Nickelodeon's Peter Rabbit, and has performed in several other professional projects as well, most notably English dubs of anime. On November 3, 2012, Colin voiced a special guest character named Aiden on the children's TV Series Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, with Michaela Dean co-starring as one of the main character bears. In December 2012, Colin and Michaela joined forces once more, voicing two of the three main protagonists on Nickelodeon's Peter Rabbit, throughout the first season. However, due to unspecified reasons, Colin, along with the other voice actors who voiced Peter's family (Stephanie Sheh, Megan Taylor Hayvey and Jenna Iacono) were all re-cast. Since the Season 1 finale on October 7, 2014, he has not acted nor voice acted a single character in any movie nor TV show, due to his inability to join SAG/AFTRA, thus unable to proceed further in the industry in turn due to insufficient funds, but did voice a character (Tolle Koenig) in the 2017 re-dub of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. In 2015 he studied the acting technique pioneered by William H. Macy and David Mamet; Practical Aesthetics, at the Atlantic Theatre Company. He also participated in an Irish Dialect Intensive at T. Schreiber Studios, taught by sought-after Dialect Coach Page Clements. He grew as an actor and as a young man in these wonderful, challenging seminars. On March 21, 2015, Colin's acting career was placed on hiatus due to his mother setting up Colin's SAG/AFTRA Joining Fund. He now has to formally join SAG/AFTRA in order to proceed in the industry. His status is "Must Join", meaning he cannot be cast in any featured role on TV or in Film unless he joins the union. He has tested well for many projects, series, etc., but hits a wall now due to his status, and the joining fee costs at least $3000. He has unofficially retired from acting until he can join SAG/AFTRA, and whilst enjoying his life away from the camera. And since then he has appeared only occasionally as an actor. He occasionally returned to acting in an English dubbed anime including a cameo appearance in the 2017 re-dub of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny.