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A. J. LoCascio

American actor, director and filmmaker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4647224 ↗
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A. J. LoCascio is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles as Prince Lotor in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game and Gambit in X-Men '97.

Early life

LoCascio grew up in New Jersey before moving to New York City where he attended the School of Visual Arts. He is the older brother of Jamison LoCascio, a film director and founder of the production company, FilmValor.

Career

In an interview for the release of Back to the Future: The Game, LoCascio said that as a child, people used to say that he sounded like Marty McFly from Back to the Future; LoCascio auditioned for the part and got it since Michael J. Fox was unavailable to voice the character (but voiced Willie McFly and Future Marty in the episode "Outatime").

He has performed as a voice actor on other projects, along with directing, producing and working in the costume and wardrobe department. He was the co-host of the pilot of a nostalgia-heavy talk show called Yesterday Tonight.

LoCascio also starred in a Minecraft web series called Seedlings as the main character, Mark.

He voiced Emmet Brickowski in the Legoland 4D short subject The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure. This was because Chris Pratt was unavailable at that time.

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“A. J. LoCascio” enters the record as american actor, director and filmmaker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what LoCascio, American and actor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 220-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-07-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around LoCascio, American and actor.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4647224. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “A. J. LoCascio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.