Atticus Ronald Shaffer (born June 19, 1998) is an American actor known
for playing Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009â€"2018), as
well as for voicing Edgar in the film Frankenweenie (2012) and Ono on
the Disney Junior series The Lion Guard (2016â€"2019), and for his
brief appearance in Hancock (2008).The role for which Shaffer is thus
far most well-known is that of Brick Heck, a character in the American
television sitcom The Middle. The role was played by Shaffer during
the show's entire nine-season run, from 2009 to 2018. Brick is the
youngest of the three Heck siblings, and is highly intelligent and
smarter than most people his age. He loves to read and has an ongoing
fascination with fonts. Brick is socially awkward, and repeatedly
overlooked by the members of his family, such as via forgotten
birthdays. The series and its cast were nominated dozens of times for
awards, and won over a dozen collectively.In a Wired magazine
interview published in January 2013, Shaffer said his role as Brick
was very similar to his own life, as he is also a "big reader" and
"nerd[s] out over the weirdest stuff". In May 2011, a TV Guide article
had reported the closeness as well. Brick's characterization,
including his idiosyncratic palilalian repetition of words and phrases
at the end of sentences, is actually based on The Middle co-creator
Eileen Heisler's son, Justin.
for playing Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009â€"2018), as
well as for voicing Edgar in the film Frankenweenie (2012) and Ono on
the Disney Junior series The Lion Guard (2016â€"2019), and for his
brief appearance in Hancock (2008).The role for which Shaffer is thus
far most well-known is that of Brick Heck, a character in the American
television sitcom The Middle. The role was played by Shaffer during
the show's entire nine-season run, from 2009 to 2018. Brick is the
youngest of the three Heck siblings, and is highly intelligent and
smarter than most people his age. He loves to read and has an ongoing
fascination with fonts. Brick is socially awkward, and repeatedly
overlooked by the members of his family, such as via forgotten
birthdays. The series and its cast were nominated dozens of times for
awards, and won over a dozen collectively.In a Wired magazine
interview published in January 2013, Shaffer said his role as Brick
was very similar to his own life, as he is also a "big reader" and
"nerd[s] out over the weirdest stuff". In May 2011, a TV Guide article
had reported the closeness as well. Brick's characterization,
including his idiosyncratic palilalian repetition of words and phrases
at the end of sentences, is actually based on The Middle co-creator
Eileen Heisler's son, Justin.
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