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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

2005-07-21

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Joseph Zada

Biography

Joseph Cumpston (born July 21, 2005), known professionally as Joseph Zada, is an Australian actor. He has appeared in television series such as Total Control (2024) and Stan Australia series Invisible Boys (2025), as well as Australian movies Bilched (2019) and The Speedway Murders (2023). He featured in the series We Were Liars (2025) and East of Eden (2026), and stars in the Lionsgate movie adaptation of Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), a prequel to The Hunger Games, as Haymitch Abernathy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Zada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

East of Eden

East of Eden

In the early 1900s, a fiercely independent woman drives a rift between two brothers, igniting a saga that unfolds across two generations.

East of Eden

East of Eden

In the early 1900s, a fiercely independent woman drives a rift between two brothers, igniting a saga that unfolds across two generations.

We Were Liars

We Were Liars

One year after a mysterious accident left her with amnesia, 17-year-old Cadence returns to Beechwood, an island off Martha's Vineyard, seeking answers. As three generations of the distinguished Sinclair family gather at their private summer utopia, no one will talk about the accident – neither her childhood friends "The Liars" nor her first love Gat, forcing her to uncover the truth herself.

Total Control

Total Control

A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.

Invisible Boys

Invisible Boys

A group of tangentially-connected gay teenagers in the remote coastal town of Geraldton encounter the thrills and devastations of first love and sexual discovery set against the backdrop of Australia voting to legalise same-sex marriage in 2017.

The Speedway Murders

The Speedway Murders

In the small town of Speedway, Indiana in 1978, four young employees of a Burger Chef restaurant went missing at the end of a Friday night shift. The police initially suspected a petty theft by the work crew. By the time their bodies were found on Sunday and the investigation elevated to multiple murders, the crime scene had been cleaned and re-opened for business.

David Jones Locker

David Jones Locker

Noel ventures into a sprawling department store in search of a jumper but instead finds a surreal commercialist nightmare.

Bilched

Bilched

A wild ride through the last days of high school with our anti-hero Hal alongside his slacker/jock mates. Amongst the hilarious universal teenage stupidity and chaos of the penultimate end of school house party it becomes glaringly obvious Hal needs to stop cruising through life to face his fears and follow his heart.