Marlon Kazadi
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Marlon Sarfehjooy Kazadi (born November 16, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and recording artist. He made his screen debut at age nine in the ABC science-fiction series The Whispers (2015). After a three-year break from acting, he returned with a role in the horror reboot Child's Play (2018) and by age fourteen had secured his first lead role as Taylor in Chained (2020), for which he received the Best Young Actor award at the New York International Film Awards.
Kazadi has continued building his screen credits with appearances in the teen drama Riverdale, Zombie Town, and the superhero series Supergirl. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), he played Thick Neck, a classmate of Phoebe Spengler's in Gary Grooberson's summer school science class in Summerville, Oklahoma. Thick Neck sits in the back of the classroom, next to a classmate known as the Burner Girl. He is one of the minor recurring student characters in the Summerville setting who populate the school scenes alongside Phoebe and Podcast. A deleted scene preserved in the film's second trailer showed a redheaded student popping a bag of Doritos in Phoebe's face; Thick Neck appears in the surrounding classroom context in that sequence.