---
name: "Ian Petrella"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-petrella"
fi1m_id: "ian-petrella"
imdb_id: "nm0677826"
tmdb_id: 12709
wikidata_id: "Q5982593"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 December 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:00:05.948770+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ian Petrella

## Identity

Ian Petrella

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-petrella
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-petrella
- **IMDb ID:** nm0677826
- **TMDB ID:** 12709
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5982593
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Petrella, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5982593, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12709

Actor. Born 17 December 1974 in Los Angeles, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 December 1974, Los Angeles, California
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Petrella, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5982593, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12709

## Coming up

- *The Shark That Roared* (2027-07-27), Producer

## Biography

Ian Petrella is an American actor and puppeteer, born on 17 December 1974 in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for playing Randy Parker, the younger brother of Ralphie, in the 1983 film *A Christmas Story*. He reprised the role in the 2022 sequel *A Christmas Story Christmas*.

Petrella began acting as a child, appearing in television series including *CHiPs*, *Diff'rent Strokes*, *Who's the Boss?* and *Beverly Hills, 90210*. He has also worked in animation and puppetry, and studied improv at the Groundlings in Los Angeles. In 2010–2011 he served as a guest tour guide at the *A Christmas Story House* in Cleveland, Ohio, where he now resides.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Christmas Story* (1983), Fi1m 79, as Randy — [page](https://film.one/film/a-christmas-story.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Shark That Roared* (2027), Producer
- *A Christmas Story Christmas* (2022), as Randy Parker
- *Quarter Bin* (2015), Actor
- *Beverly Hills, 90210* (1990), series, as Kid — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/beverly-hills-90210.md)
- *Crimes of Passion* (1984), as Jimmy's Friend
- *Who's the Boss?* (1984), series, as Biff
- *A Christmas Story* (1983), as Randy — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-christmas-story.md)

## Gallery

- ![Ian Petrella](https://film.one/media/person/3923896/gallery-355672b1c0ff.jpg) Ian Petrella — Rob DiCaterino from Clifton, NJ, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Ian_Petrella_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ian Petrella](https://film.one/media/person/3923896/gallery-a196e8a995d0.jpg) Ian Petrella — Image via TMDB
- ![Ian Petrella](https://film.one/media/person/3923896/gallery-99db48d05e3e.jpg) Ian Petrella — Image via TMDB

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