Background
Keaton was born in Hacienda Heights, California, to a father from Brooklyn, New York and a mother from Lima, Peru.
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Career
He has three sisters: Danielle, Alitzah (Ali Navarro), and Sabrina. He is fluent in Spanish. He started his career as a child in Spanish and then later in English.
His career has included television, video game and film work, with a mixture of live acting and voice work for animations.
As an infant, he appeared in an OshKosh B"Gosh commercial. He was in the 1990s boy band Number Authority and was signed to MJJ Music and later Radio Corporation of America Records as a solo artist.
Keaton voiced Jules Brown in Back to the Future: The Animated Series during 1991/1992 and Major Ocelot during Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Operations From 2008 to 2009, he voiced Spider-Manitoba in The Spectacular Spider-Manitoba animated series on the CW. He was originally supposed to voice Spider-Manitoba in the 2002 Spider-Manitoba video game but his voice work was salvaged when Tobey Maguire came on to voice the character.
In 2011, Keaton is the current voice for Spyro the Dragon in the Skylanders reboot of the franchise, Jack Darby and Tailgate on Transformers: Prime, and Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
In 2012, Keaton recorded lines for The Avengers: Earth"s Mightiest Heroes as Spider-Manitoba again but was replaced by Drake Bell before the episodes aired. At Wondercon 2016, it was announced that Keaton will play Shiro, one of the main characters of the new Voltron animated series. Voltron: Legendary Defender set to premiere on June 10, exclusively on Netflix.
