Early Life
Marsden was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Linda Williams, a former fashion model, and Myles Marsden (1936-2019), who had been a premier danseur with the Yugoslav National Ballet.1 He has three older half-siblings from his father's prior marriage to Croatian dancer Ivanka Herci Munitic.1 In August 1985, when Marsden was ten years old, the family relocated to Fullerton, California.1
His performing career began unusually early. While still attending elementary school, he was cast as A.J. Quartermaine on the daytime serial General Hospital, a role he held for two years beginning in 1986.1
Career
Live-Action Television and Film
Marsden's early live-action credits include the science fiction film Robot Jox (1990), filmed in Rome, and the adventure film White Squall (1996).12 On television, he became familiar to audiences through recurring roles: Nelson Burkhard across four episodes of Full House, Jason on Boy Meets World, and most prominently Rich Halke on Step by Step from 1995 to 1998.1 He also directed nine episodes of the Nickelodeon series The Journey of Allen Strange (1997-1999).1
Voice Acting
Marsden's voice acting career launched in earnest in the early 1990s and produced a string of signature Disney and studio roles. He voiced the title character's cat alter ego Thackery Binx in Hocus Pocus (1993), then originated the role of Max Goof in A Goofy Movie (1995), returning to the character across several subsequent Disney productions.1 His most emotionally prominent Disney role came with Kovu, the lion love interest in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998).1 In 2002, Marsden brought the water spirit Haku to English-speaking audiences in Disney's English dub of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away.1
His television animation work is equally extensive. He voiced the lead character Tino Tonitini in the Disney animated series The Weekenders, Chester McBadbat in The Fairly OddParents (2003-2011), the villain Chase Young in Xiaolin Showdown (2003-2006), and Richie Foley/Gear in Static Shock.1 In Young Justice, he voiced speedster Bart Allen, who goes by the alias Impulse and later Kid Flash, reprising the role in the 2019 revival season Young Justice: Outsiders.1 Across his career, Marsden has also contributed voice work to numerous video games, including the Tak and the Power of Juju trilogy (2003-2005).1
Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Marsden voiced Garrett Miller across all 40 episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters, the 1997 animated series that followed a new generation of Ghostbusters working under Egon Spengler.3 Garrett is a wheelchair user who is the most physically fearless and adrenaline-driven of the new team, channeling enthusiasm and bravado that Marsden delivered with consistent energy.
Production scheduling required the voice cast to record their sessions in the evenings. Both Marsden and his co-star Alfonso Ribeiro were simultaneously working on live-action sitcoms during the day, making evening recording sessions the only practical arrangement.
A notable piece of trivia for fans: Marsden is not related to actor James Marsden, despite sharing a surname. James Marsden guest-voiced in the Extreme Ghostbusters episode "Ghost Apocalyptic Future," which means the two Marsdens actually shared a production, purely by coincidence.4
Personal Life
In October 2004, Marsden married Christy Hicks.1 Together they opened Yoga Blend, a yoga studio in Burbank, California, in 2005.1 The couple's son was born on February 17, 2010.1 Marsden and Hicks divorced in 2020 after 16 years; the Yoga Blend studio closed permanently that same year, a casualty of the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Marsden subsequently relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.1 In April 2026, he married Remy Dee.1
Since 2020, Marsden has hosted The Mars Variety Show, an online web series on YouTube featuring indie musicians, comedians, and alternative performers, styled after variety programs of an earlier era.1
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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"Jason Marsden," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Marsden.
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"Robot Jox (1989): Filming Locations," IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/locations/.
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"Extreme Ghostbusters," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Ghostbusters.
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"Extreme Ghostbusters: Ghost Apocalyptic Future (1997)," IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0574525/.
