Ethan Frances Cutkosky (born August 19, 1999) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Barto in The Unborn and as Carl Gallagher on the Showtime series Shameless.
He got his first film role playing Carl in Fred Claus (2007), a Christmas comedy starring Vince Vaughn. Two years later he played Barto in the horror film The Unborn (2009), where he worked with Gary Oldman and, a year later, was able to see him in the independent thriller Conviction (2010), starring by Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. Currently, Ethan works in the role of Carl Gallagher, in the Showtime television series Shameless, whose protagonists are Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy.