Jack DeSena

"This is one of the first times Jack DeSena just went off, improvising, and now we know we can just trust him to come up with some funny stuff."

— Bryan Konietzko commenting on the unaired pilot's commentary.[1]

John Patrick DeSena is an American screen and voice actor who voiced Sokka and additional characters across 60 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Avatar: The Last Airbender credits[]

Sokka[]

Character information: Sokka

60 episodes and 3 shorts

100. Unaired pilot 101. "The Boy in the Iceberg" 102. "The Avatar Returns" 103. "The Southern Air Temple" 104. "The Warriors of Kyoshi" 105. "The King of Omashu" 106. "Imprisoned" 107. "Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World" 108. "Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku" 109. "The Waterbending Scroll" 110. "Jet" 111. "The Great Divide" 112. "The Storm" 113. "The Blue Spirit" 114. "The Fortuneteller" 115. "Bato of the Water Tribe" 116. "The Deserter" 117. "The Northern Air Temple" 118. "The Waterbending Master" 119. "The Siege of the North, Part 1" 120. "The Siege of the North, Part 2" 201. "The Avatar State" 202. "The Cave of Two Lovers" 203. "Return to Omashu" 204. "The Swamp" 205. "Avatar Day" 206. "The Blind Bandit" 208. "The Chase" 209. "Bitter Work" 210. "The Library" 211. "The Desert" 212. "The Serpent's Pass" 213. "The Drill" 214. "City of Walls and Secrets" 215. "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" 217. "Lake Laogai" 218. "The Earth King" 219. "The Guru" 220. "The Crossroads of Destiny" 301. "The Awakening" 302. "The Headband" 303. "The Painted Lady" 304. "Sokka's Master" 305. "The Beach" 306. "The Avatar and the Fire Lord" 307. "The Runaway" 308. "The Puppetmaster" 309. "Nightmares and Daydreams" 310. "The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion" 311. "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse" 312. "The Western Air Temple" 313. "The Firebending Masters" 314. "The Boiling Rock, Part 1" 315. "The Boiling Rock, Part 2" 316. "The Southern Raiders" 317. "The Ember Island Players" 318. "Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King" 319. "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters" 320. "Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno" 321. "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang" "Bending Battle" (short) "Swamp Skiin' Throwdown" (short) "School Time Shipping" (short)

Additional voices[]

9 episodes
104. "The Warriors of Kyoshi" 105. "The King of Omashu" 106. "Imprisoned" 108. "Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku" 114. "The Fortuneteller" 116. "The Deserter" 117. "The Northern Air Temple" 118. "The Waterbending Master" 303. "The Painted Lady"

Avatar: Braving the Elements credits[]

Guest[]

• 7. "Meet the Cast: Jack De Sena ("Sokka")"
• 25. ""The Storm" with Jack De Sena"
• 42. "Season One Finale with Jack De Sena, Jennie Kwan, Antoine Bandele & Kendall Byrd"
• 50. ""The Cave of Two Lovers" with Jack DeSena"
• 65. "San Diego ComicCon '22"
• 107. "'Sokka's Master' with Jack De Sena"
• 113.5. "Secrets from the Vault: Sword Fights & Bryke Bites"
• 135. "Meet the Cast! with Mae Whitman and Jack De Sena"

Selected other credits[]

Television work[]

• All That
• Dorm Life
• King of the Hill
• Sam & Cat
• The Batman
• The Dragon Prince

Filmography[]

• Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend (2008)
• The Wild (2006)

Other credits[]

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (video game)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender – Into the Inferno (video game)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth (video game)

Biographical information[]

DeSena is best known for his work on the sketch comedy series All That, having joined the show's cast at the start of its seventh season in 2001. His family moved to Irvine, California, in 1999 where he attended school. He was an active member of the international ComedySportz troupe, a comic improvisation team that participates in games as seen on Whose Line is it Anyway?.

In 2007, he appeared in one episode of King of the Hill and wrote and starred in the mockumentary web series Dorm Life, which won a 2008 Webby Honoree for Best Writing and Comedy: Individual Short or Episode. He appeared in one episode of Generator Rex, and in 2012, he starred in the Hulu original series Battleground. He has appeared as two separate characters in the Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat, and in 2014, he voiced Robin in the animated film JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time. In 2018, he voiced Callum in the animated series The Dragon Prince, working with former Avatar alumni Aaron Ehasz and Giancarlo Volpe.^[2]

Awards[]

• 2005: Won a Young Artist Award for All That (Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actor) (shared with Logan Lerman)

Trivia[]

• It is stated in a Nickelodeon Magazine Presents: Avatar issue that the creators originally intended Sokka to be much more low-key, but when DeSena came in and brought liveliness to his character, they began to give him more ad libbed and humorous parts.
• Jack participated in a live reading of Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy on May 19, 2021, where he reprised his role of Sokka.^[3]
• During the recording of Book Two, Jack was studying in college and as a result, was frequently late for recording sessions. DeSena would later admit he had behaved like "an unprofessional 18-year old."^[4]
• DeSena was once cast as DC superhero Robin, a role which was also auditioned by his fellow Avatar co-star Dante Basco, in the film JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time.^[4]

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