Lucien Duncan-Reid

Lucien Duncan-Reid and the Voice Behind PAW Patrol’s Rubble

Few animated franchises lean as hard on their ensemble as PAW Patrol, and within that ensemble, Rubble – the bulldog obsessed with construction and mud carries a distinct comic warmth. When Lucien Duncan-Reid stepped into the role at mid-Season 8, beginning with the episode “Rescue Knights: Quest for the Dragon’s Tooth,” he inherited one of children’s television’s most recognizable voices and made it entirely his own. Born on March 31, 2012, in Toronto, Ontario, Duncan-Reid had already accumulated stage experience before his teen years, debuting at age seven as Tiny Tim Cratchit in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s production of A Christmas Carol at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

That early grounding in live performance translated cleanly into the recording booth. Rubble demands a particular energy – enthusiastic but never grating, childlike but earnest – and Duncan-Reid’s tenure across 109 episodes of the main series demonstrates a consistent grip on that balance. He extended the same characterization into Rubble & Crew, the spin-off series centered on Rubble’s construction family, taking over from Luxton Handspiker in late Season 3 starting with “The Crew Builds a Skyscraper.”

Peanuts, Blue’s Clues, and Building a Broader Portfolio

PAW Patrol anchors his resume, but the range around it is notable for a performer still in his early teens. In the Peanuts universe, Duncan-Reid voices Pig-Pen the perpetually dusty kid whose cloud of grime became one of Charles Schulz’s most enduring visual gags in Camp Snoopy (2024), Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024), and Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie (2023). That casting places him inside one of animation’s longest-running franchises, alongside a legacy of performers who grew up doing exactly what he is doing now.

His work in Blue’s Clues & You as Josh’s Friend/Hansel (2020-2023) added a quieter, collaborative energy to his body of work, while a recurring role as Leo in the 2024 revival of Caillou further cemented his standing in the Canadian children’s animation ecosystem. Live-action credits include the sci-fi film Simulant (2023), where he played Caleb, and a guest appearance on The Boys in 2024 an unusually sharp left turn for a young performer predominantly known for preschool fare.

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie and What Comes Next

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026) marks Duncan-Reid’s first lead voice credit in a theatrical animated feature, bringing Rubble to the big screen under his watch for the first time. At 14, his trajectory sits somewhere genuinely unusual a child actor who started in stage drama, built a television voice-acting career across multiple concurrent franchises, and is now crossing into feature animation while maintaining live-action credits on prestige adult television.