AIDAN GALLAGHER —Actor, Singer-Musician and Environmental Activist
Aidan Gallagher is an actor, musician, and a UN Environment Goodwill Programme Ambassador for North America. He is best known for starring as ‘Number Five’ in the Netflix series ‘The Umbrella Academy’ which TelevisionStats.com ranked as the 3rd most popular show in the world. Season 4 will debut in August of 2024. Aidan is currently finishing his debut album. His award-winning music has earned over 31 million plays on YouTube and over 40 million plays on Spotify. IMDB named Aidan #2 of the top 10 breakout stars of 2020 and #7 of the topmost popular stars of 2020.
Early youth advocacy work with LA Waterkeeper, WildAid, and Oceanic Preservation Society led to a 2018 historic designation for Aidan as the youngest UN Goodwill Ambassador ever designated in the UN system. Since that time Aidan has been passionately active in the climate movement, being the face of numerous UN climate initiatives, including speaking at events and panels, while actively sharing environmental messaging via his large social media following.
Recent years have seen Aidan hosting the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade conference at the invitation of the UK Government and the then Duke of Cambridge, Prince William; at the 2019 UN Youth Climate Summit where he interviewed the Secretary-General and appeared on CNN International. In 2021 Aidan started his @TreesWithAidan initiative in conjunction with Envision Racing— with a goal to inspire one million climate action pledges for which Envision will plant one million trees. In 2022 Aidan appeared in the Bloomberg News QuickTake segment: Climate Minded. In 2023 Aidan provided the keynote speech Climate Plenary for the One Young World Conference.
ACTOR RESUME
+ Critical acclaim starring as Number Five in four seasons of the highly rated Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. Season 2 released July 31, 2020 to a critics 96% recommend on the Rotten Tomatoes Meter. Season 3 hit #1 in the week of June 20-26, 2022 top 10 Netflix titles with 124.53 million hours viewed and overall #13 of all streaming shows of 2022 with 10.B billion minutes viewed. TelevisionStats.com has ranked Season 3 of the The Umbrella Academy the third most popular show in the world. Season 4 is pending release.
+ MTV Awards Presenter, 2022
+ IMDB Top 10 Breakout Stars of 2020—#2
+ IMDB Top 10 Stars of 2020 —#7
+ 2018 Variety Young Hollywood Impact Report: Ones to Watch
+ Nominations (2016, 2017) Favorite Male Tv Star, Kids Choice Awards for his starring role as “Nicky” on Nickelodeon’s Emmy-winning comedy hit "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn"
CLIMATE ACTIVIST RESUME
+ 2024 Vanity Fair Global Goals List feature article “A Brave New World” representing SDG 13 Climate Action
+ 2023 Keynote speech One Young World Climate Emergency Day
+ 2023 Trees With Aidan plants over 200,000 mangroves
+ 2023 Featured lead interview Race Against Climate Change conference
+ 2023 Gallagher drives e-waste car to highlight the climate crisis with top coverage from New Scientist
+ 2023 UN names Gallagher to Global SDG Circle of Supporters
+ 2022 Gallagher is featured in several TIME Magazine international and global issues promoting climate sustainability
+ 2022 Gallagher is featured in a Bloomberg News Quicktake segment “Climate Minded with Aidan Gallagher”
+ 2022 Gallagher drives his Trees With Aidan initiative in conjunction with Envision Racing at the NYC EPrix, inspiring over 35,000 climate pledges in one day and surpassing 100,000 mangrove trees planted in less than 9 months.
+ 2022 Gallagher appears as featured interviewee with noted environmentalist filmmaker Jack Harries in the YouTube Original web series "Seat At The Table"—Climate Anxiety.
+ 2021 Trees With Aidan launched in conjunction with Envision's "Race Against Climate Change" program.
+ 2020 United Nations Environment Programme "Champions of the Earth" featured announcer and interviewer
+ 2020 Envision Virgin "Race Against Climate Change" Featured Panelist
+ 2020 United Nations Environment Youth Town Hall Featured Speaker and representative for the UN #ActNow campaign.
+ 2019 Youth Climate Summit interview with UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres and CNN International live interview
+ 2019 Face of the United Nations "The World is in Our Hands" climate campaign
+ 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference Host on invitation of the UK
Government and the Duke of Cambridge
+ 2018 History making designation as the youngest Goodwill Ambassador in the entire United Nations system at age 14
INDEPENDENT SINGER, SONGWRITER, MUSICIAN RESUME
Aidan plays the piano, guitar, base, sings, writes and self engineers his own original lyrics and compositions. He enjoys playing live performances and is currently producing a new album expected in 2024. Aidan has written and composed material for two full albums. His latest developed sound takes inspiration from Radiohead and My Chemical Romance.
+ March 2020, one of 6 worldwide artists selected for Bands in Town “Big Break” emerging artists accelorator program for 2020 SXSW—making him the youngest ever singer solo artist to be selected to perform at SXSW.
+ January 2020, #1 of the top 5 most requested artists on Bands in Town
+ December 2019, #22 Bands In Town Emerging Artists Chart
"4th of July" Single
+ September 2021, " 2nd Place Winner, Teen, Unsigned Only
+ May 2021, Winner, 2020 ISC—People's Voice
+ February 2021, 2020 semi-finalists ISC Pop/Top 40
"For You" Single
+ May 2020, 2019 ISC Honorable Mention—Teen Category
+ March 2020, 2019 ISC finalist Teen & 10 Days of Summer
“I Love You” Single
+ February 2021, semi-finalist in the 2020 ISC Folk/Singer-Songwriter & Teen
+ April 2020, Vox Pop Winner, Acoustic —18th Annual Independent Music Awards
“Miss You” Single Duet co-written and performed with Trinity Rose
+ January 2020, BandsinTown and Billboard Global Rising Artist Chart #16
+ Mixed by Grammy Winner Richard Furch