Zach Galligan | Student

Zachary Wolfe Galligan is an American actor who was born on February 14, 1964, in New York City. He became popular after giving life to the character of Billy Peltzer in the comedy-horror films, Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. He also appeared in the movies Waxwork, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Bad Candy, Hatchet III, Surviving: A Family Crisis, All Tied Up, American Bigfoot, Infested, Raw Nerve, and Legion of the Dead. In 2016, he worked with the rock band Gandalf’s Fist as the voice of one of the characters in their album The Clockwork Fable. Galligan also starred in the film Nothing Lasts Forever, but the film was never released.

The actor stepped back from acting to earn a degree at Columbia University. It was reported that his parents wanted a “more stable career” for him.