Danny Phantom Live Action Fan Cast
by sandrews-51999 | created - 15 Dec 2018 | updated - 16 Dec 2018 | PublicFor purposes of this list, characters are aged up about two years, with Danny and friends imagined as high school juniors-seniors rather than the freshman-sophomore age range in the show.
1. Cameron Boyce
Actor | Mrs. Fletcher
Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).
In 1999, ...
Danny Fenton/Phantom
In this version, Danny is a high school junior. His parents have already been through the process of college applications with their older daughter Jazz Fenton, but eleventh grade Danny just can't seem to get his CAT score or his grades high enough to make the scholarship he needs. On top of it all, over the summer he got ghost powers, adding vigilante activities as Danny Phantom to his to-do list.
Along with the secret of his ghost powers, Danny has also been out to his family and friends as trans since he was seven- but he has to keep that hidden from his classmates, as he attends school pretending to be a cis boy.
2. Rowan Blanchard
Actress | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
Rowan Blanchard is an American actress best known for her role as Riley in Girl Meets World (2014) which earned her Young Artist Award nominations. She has since had roles as Jackie Geary on the ABC Sitcom The Goldbergs (2013) and Alexandra Cavill in the TNT Series Snowpiercer (2020). Rowan's other...
Sam Manson
Vegan, bisexual, Jewish, Aries, goth, activist. All words Sam would use to describe herself. Between protests and punk rock concerts, Sam finds herself helping out her friends- especially her crush, Danny, who she is still a bit in denial about liking.
3. RJ Cyler
Actor | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
RJ Cyler, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, was born Ronald Cyler II, the youngest of three boys. RJ has always been an entertainer in some way or form. At the age of 12, he started a dance team with his older brother. In January 2012, RJ heard a commercial for open auditions in the Jacksonville ...
Tucker Foley
Tucker had his future planned out, down to the most minuscule detail, about how he'd go to college, major in computer science, date a bunch of girls now that he was an upperclassman- and it's all thrown for a spin when his best friend gets ghost powers, and Tucker has to step up to the plate as the guy who's the best with technology, and thus the best at working with and repairing the Fentons' ghost hunting equipment.
4. Ashleigh Murray
Actress | Riverdale
Ashleigh Murray portrays Josie McCoy in the CW's new teen drama Riverdale. Ashleigh was born in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 5th grade, she went to Oakland, California, to live with her aunt for 2 years, where Murray enjoyed studying piano, jazz and hip-hop. After graduating high school back in ...
Valerie Gray
Valerie used to have it all, the life of one of the popular, rich, it-girls at Casper High, but also had an extremely high intellect unlike her peers Paulina and Star seemed to have. Her father's connections at his lab, Valerie's smarts, and their affluence seemed to all lay out a wonderful life ahead of her- until a ghost accident at her father's work cost him his job. Now, Valerie only sees ghosts as harmful, horrific creatures- and when a mysterious benefactor gives her advanced ghost hunting equipment, Valerie dons her new masked suit and anonymously hunts all ghosts with extreme prejudice- including Amity Park's so called "guardian ghost," Danny Phantom. Things just seem to get more complicated, though, when she gets a crush on Danny Fenton.
5. Bryce Dallas Howard
Actress | Jurassic World Dominion
Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (née Alley). Her famous relatives ...
Maddie Fenton
Life is hard for a working mother- you have to raise the kids, clean the house, cook the meals, and assemble ghost fighting technology in your basement. With a degree in both engineering and biochemistry, a black belt in taekwando, and certificates in advanced self-defense courses, Maddie Fenton is a force to be reckoned with- unfortunately, due to her obsession with ghosts, she often focuses her vast array of skills towards studying them and fighting them off, to such a degree she can become oblivious to the threats right under her nose- namely college friend-turned-billionaire Vlad Masters, who's come back into the Fentons' life and is so generously offering to pay for Danny's college tuition.
6. Emma Roberts
Actress | We're the Millers
Emma Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York. She was a baby when her parents separated, and she grew up living with her mother, Kelly Cunningham. She was educated at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.
Emma is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and the niece of ...
Jazz Fenton
Jazmine Fenton is the smartest girl you know. She's a university freshman, and with the amount of AP and dual enrollment credits she had when starting college, she's projected to graduate early, which is just fine for her, which means she can move on to grad school and becoming a psychologist that much more quickly.
However, things are thrown for a loop when she comes home for Thanksgiving and discovers Danny's ghost powers, learning that her parents haven't exactly exaggerated the threat that ghosts can pose to the human world. Now, between her papers and exams, Jazz has taken up boxing and self defense lessons- her baby brother isn't going to fight off supernatural threats all alone.
7. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Vlad Masters/Plasmius
Vlad was Jack Fenton's best friend in college, and intended to one day marry Maddie- but that all changed when a mistake by Jack left Vlad with a horrible case of ecto-acne, hospitalizing him for years. While the world moved on around him, Vlad suffered alone, developing both the ghost powers his halfa status offered him and a keen sense of bitterness. He's intent on pursuing Maddie, and discovers she and Jack have had children, and that their son is a halfa. Seeing the opportunity for both vengeance on Jack and the companionship he so desperately craves, Vlad is willing to go to extreme lengths to steal the family he wants, no matter the cost.
8. Ciara Riley Wilson
Actress | Freeridge
Ciara Riley Wilson is an actor, dancer, and fashion designer born and raised in Portland, Oregon. After growing up in competitive dance, Ciara realized she also had a deep passion for acting, and decided to come to LA at the age of eleven in pursuit of it. Since then, Ciara has been in a variety of...
Danielle Phantom
Dani was created by accident, when Vlad was studying his and Danny's halfa DNA. They lived relatively happy for a short period, until Dani discovered Vlad's taste for villainy. Learning what type of a person her father was, Danielle fled to the one other person in the world she knew of, Danny Fenton.
9. Sofia Carson
Actress | Purple Hearts
Sofía Daccarett Char was born on April 10, 1993 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The daughter of José F. Daccarett and Colombian-American Laura Char Carson. Through her mother, Sofia is related to the Char family of Colombian politicians. She attended St. Hugh School and graduated from Carrollton School...
Paulina Sanchez
Paulina is a lot of things- pretty, popular, rich- but dumb isn't one of them. Sure, she's not book smart, but she's people smart, an adept manipulator, and well aware of how to get what she wants. This is to the benefit of her friends, but not so much to those who cross her- namely her goth arch-enemy Sam Manson.
The one thing she wants that she just can't seem to get is the heart of that mysterious ghost boy who saved her from another ghost over the summer.
10. Charles Melton
Actor | May December
Charles Melton was born on January 4, 1991 in Juneau, Alaska, USA. He is an actor, known for May December (2023), Riverdale (2017) and The Sun Is Also a Star (2019).
Kwan
Kwan would really like to convince himself that he's a good guy, but sometimes, when he and Dash are wailing on some scrawnier targets, he doesn't really feel like one.
11. Halsey
Soundtrack | If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Halsey was born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane on September 29, 1994 in Edison, New Jersey to Nicolette "Nicole" Frangipane (née Jacobs), an emergency medical technician & Christopher Michael "Chris" Frangipane, a car dealer. She is of Italian, Hungarian, and Irish descent on her mother's side and ...
Ember McLain
What's a girl who died at twenty-two before her rock career could get off the ground to do? Use her new powers to become the beloved, praised, powerful celebrity she always wanted to be, of course!
12. Jaeden Martell
Actor | St. Vincent
Jaeden Martell is an American actor. He played the role of Bill Denbrough in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel It and reprised the role in the film's 2019 sequel. He also appeared in the mystery film Knives Out (2019) and starred in the miniseries Defending Jacob (2020).
Martell was ...
Sidney Poindexter
Being bullied in life sucks. Suicide sucks. The after life sucks. Not finding much cause for any happiness around him, the ex-Casper High sophomore decides to dedicate his life to tormenting the bullies of his old high school to make life a bit easier on the other kids, but looking at it from an outsiders' perspective sometimes leads to some mix-ups.
13. Steve Buscemi
Actor | Fargo
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...
Nicolai Technus
Technus didn't originally intend to conquer the world, but dang, it just sounds like such a neat idea.
14. Sabrina Carpenter
Actress | Emergency
Sabrina Carpenter has enchanted an audience of millions as a singer, songwriter, actress and style icon. With her music, she has delivered one anthem after another on stage and in the studio, earning multiple gold certifications, and performing to sold out crowds across the United States and ...
Star
Star wishes for a lot of things: Wishes to be as popular as Paulina, wishes to be as rich as Paulina, wishes to kiss Paulina. Wait, what was that last part? For now, she contents herself to date Kwan while Paulina occupies herself on and off with Dash while pining for the ghost boy, but wishes she could see the attractive, loyal girl right in front of her.
15. David Tennant
Actor | Doctor Who
Widely considered as one of the greatest stage and screen actors of his generation both in his native Scotland and internationally, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish ...
Ghostwriter
16. Chadwick Boseman
Actor | Black Panther
Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...
Skulker
Skulker died while on the hunt, and he's continued on it ever since.
17. Jeff Garlin
Actor | Curb Your Enthusiasm
As a multi-talented comedian who encompasses writing, producing, directing, acting and performing stand-up comedy, Jeff Garlin has honed a successful career that started at Second City in his hometown of Chicago. Influenced by the comedians of his childhood (such as Richard Pryor, Woody Allen, and ...
Jack Fenton
Jack is a guy that cares for his family more than anything in the world, but who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed and thus easily distracted by his interest in ghosts. He'd do anything for Maddie and his kids- something Vlad continually underestimates.
18. Margot Robbie
Actress | Suicide Squad
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
Penelope Spectra
19. Sofia Boutella
Actress | Kingsman: The Secret Service
Sofia Boutella is an Algerian actress, dancer and model. She was born in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers in Algeria, the daughter of composer and jazz musician Safy Boutella, and an architect mother. She started classical dance education when she was five years old. In 1992, at age 10, she left...
Desiree
20. Bobby Moynihan
Actor | Saturday Night Live
Bobby Moynihan was born on January 31, 1977 in Eastchester, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), IF (2024) and Inside Out 2 (2024). He has been married to Brynn O'Malley since August 13, 2016. They have one child.
The Box Ghost
21. Chris Chalk
Actor | When They See Us
Chris Chalk was born on December 7, 1977 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and director, known for When They See Us (2019), Perry Mason (2020) and Detroit (2017). He is married to Kimberley Dalton Mitchell.
Mr. Lancer
Mr. Lancer is just like any other English teacher- under paid and under appreciated, and some days, he just wants to go home. But he refuses to give up on Danny Fenton where other teachers have, and has the slightest inkling that his pupil may be the oddly similar looking Danny Phantom, somehow.
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