Adam Matthew Lamberg (born
September 14, 1984) is an
American actor, perhaps best known playing
David "Gordo" Gordon in the
Disney Channel series
Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004.
Lamberg was born in
New York City to Suzanne, a public
high school teacher, and Marc Lamberg. His father is
Jewish and his mother is
French Canadian; Lamberg considers himself a "cultural Jew."
He attended P.S. 183 on the upper east side. In 1998 he enrolled in the Bronx High School of Science but left after his sophomore year to audition, and consequently begin filming the Lizzie McGuire show.
In New York, Lamberg has appeared in plays such as
Nine Armenians,
Asylum, The Gathering and Adam Baum and the Jew Movie. He was
Kirstie Alley's son in the ABC TV movie
Radiant City, a voice on
Phred on your Head, and had roles in the feature films
I'm Not Rappaport and
Max Keeble's Big Move. Other roles include Lord Willy in the
ABC TV miniseries
Dead Man's Walk, and Tad Lincoln in
TNT's The Day Lincoln Was Shot. He also performed in
Macbeth (Young MacDuff) at New York's Public Theater with
Angela Bassett and
Alec Baldwin. His most current movie is
When Do We Eat? (April 2006).
Lamberg filmed
Beautiful Loser in which he is the lead. As of 2007, he is still attending the
University of California, Berkeley and majoring in Geography.