Finn Carr: The "Alexa & Katie" kid grows up, swims, flexes, does drag, and plays a gay-subtext soap opera teen.


Alexa & Katie (2018-20) was a Netflix sitcom (actually a drama with jokes) about two high school buddies: Alexa, who tries to hide having cancer so no one will treat her differently, and Katie, who is wearing a wig in solidarity.  Plots involve joining the basketball team, competing over boys, befriending other kids with cancer, and so on.  

Ricky Garcia and Liam Attridge, members of the band Forever in Your Mind, play gay-subtext buddies Cameron and Steve.  

This is a profile of the kid in the middle, Finn Carr.




Left: A random nude dude to tide you over.






Finn started his career in modeling -- you can see him here in an "Own the School Year Like a Hero" campaign for Wal-Mart. There's also a giant banner over his head.

He  played Wilbur, son of single dad Owen (Michael McMillan) and grandson of single mom Joy (Jane Leeves of Frasier) on Hot in Cleveland (2014)

The young version of special agent and genius Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) on Criminal Minds (2016).

Lewis Gladstone, son of Joey Gladstone (David Coulier) and member of a sibling singing group called Gladstone Four on Fuller House (2016-17).


Katie's little brother on Alexa & Katie: a video game addict, aware of Alexa's secret and fine with kids who have cancer.  Here he's trying out drag with his tv sister's wig.  He goes into full drag later.

After Alexa, he played Derek Fox-Lubiner, two episode boyfriend of Millicent, dealing with the disapproval of her stepfather Freddie (Nathan Kress)  on ICarly (2022).

Brian,, the debate team opponent, crush, and boyfriend of demonic guardian Scary (a girl) on Pretty Freekin Scary (2023).  

 


And then he suddenly grew up.

Well, almost.  As of this writing, Finn is a week from his 17th birthday.  


And rather built, as you can see from the interplay of muscles in this rock-climbing photo.

More after the break






And an athlete: Finn is on the swim team at El Cerritos High (the one in purple).  He placed second in the free and medley relays at the TCAL Championships in 202

What about his acting?  After the singing, dancing, and drag of his childhood years, I'm expecting some gay roles. 

Most recently Finn has appeared in 64 episodes of the soap General Hospital (2022-25) as Rocco Falconeri, son of Detective Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zaprogna) and grandson of the infamous Luke and Laura.  But his parentage is a bit contentious.  Other Dad candidates include Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson) and Brad Cooper (Parry Shen.).  



Rocco's plotlines involve standard soap opera angst: kidnapped, held hostage, kidnapped again, Mom in a coma, Dad being shot, a sister in hiding, restraining order because he was accused of kidnapping Scout Quartermaine, playing drinking games at a beach party that result in a near-fatal alcohol poisoning, finding out that his dad's friend Gio (Giovanni Mazza) is actually his brother.  











Plus some teen adventures with his buddy Danny (Asher Antonyzym): playing baseball, getting jobs at the country club, getting their lifeguard certificate.  

The General Hospital fan wiki mentions that at the beach party, Danny tries to introduce him to a girl, but he would rather hang out with the guys, suggesting that he is gay; but this is not brought up in the fan reddit.


There's already a gay teen in the group: Rocco's cousin Aiden (Colin Cassidy). He was kidnapped a few times, had a life-threatening disease, was bullied, came out, reunited with his estranged Dad Lucky (Jonathan Jackson), and got a boyfriend.  The tv rule is, only one gay guy maximum in the main cast.

But Rocco and Danny certainly have a gay-subtext bromance going on.

Gay in real life?  Finn does not discuss his real-life friendships on social media, so there's no way to know.  For now.





I didn't look for risque photos of Finn, but here's a random nude twink.









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