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A Christmas Story Live! is one step closer to making your holiday dreams come true. Fox has announced that child actor Andy Walken will star as Ralphie Parker, the bespeckled, BB-gun loving main character in the network’s live musical adaption of humorist Jean Shepherd’s 1983 Christmas classic. Walken is an 11-year-old actor who has several acting credits under his belt. including NCIS and Heartbeat. The young actor won the role after a nationwide search that netted a whopping 350 auditions, according to TV Line.
And this kid is no ordinary Ralphie. Walken is a self-described Christmas Story fanatic who even told casting agents that if he got the role “it would be the greatest, most awesome Christmas present I’ve ever gotten in my life.” Who could turn him down after that?