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My Take
David Faustino earns my respect for solving the hardest problem in Hollywood: surviving your own childhood fame. Bud Bundy could have been a cage — one of television's most recognizable sitcom roles, attached to him since he was a kid. Instead of fading or imploding, he pivoted into voice acting, gave Mako in The Legend of Korra a wry warmth that won over a whole new generation, and pursued rap and music on his own terms. I like performers who treat versatility as a survival skill rather than a gimmick. Faustino strikes me as a working actor in the best sense: adaptable, self-aware, and quietly durable.
Overview
David Anthony Faustino (; born March 3, 1974) is an American actor who played Bud Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. He has also voiced animated characters for Nickelodeon, including Mako on The Legend of Korra and Helia on Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- David Faustino
- Name (Japanese)
- デビッド・ファウスティーノ
- Reading
- でびっど・ふぁうすてぃーの
- Born
- March 3, 1974 (age 52)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Tiger
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / rapper / musician / singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.davidfaustino.com/
- Xhttps://x.com/DavidFaustino
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Faustino
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.