Tenzing Norgay Trainor was born on September 4, 2001, 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 grew up in
Florida where he, at the age of eight, started acting at Paladin Playhouse Theater in
Fort Lauderdale theater camp. After returning to California, he started his acting career with appearances in TV series like
Stevie TV. His breakthrough came in 2013 in the series
Liv and Maddie where he played the recurring role of Parker Rooney, Liv and Maddie's younger brother. In 2014, he made a guest appearance as Parker Rooney in the
Jessie crossover episode "
Jessie's Aloha Holidays with Parker and Joey", along with
Joey Bragg as Joey Rooney. In 2017,
Liv and Maddie ended after four years. In 2018, Trainor was cast as Jimbo in two episodes of the Nickelodeon series
Knight Squad. In 2019, he starred in the short comedy film
Clueless, for which he won an Independent Shorts Award as Best Child/Young Actor. In the animated feature film
Abominable, he voiced the character of Jin who, similar to Tenzing Norgay, climbs Mount Everest to bring back a Yeti to his family. In 2022, he appeared as Gavin, a member of "The Afterlifers", in the Netflix series
Boo, Bitch with
Lana Condor and
Zoe Colletti. In 2023, he starred in the single eight-episode series of
Freeridge. == Filmography ==