Where Is Zachary Mabry Now? The Porky Who Became a CPA

By CelebPaid Research · Updated October 7, 2026 · 8 min read

Thematic illustration: a calculator, evoking Mabry's accounting career. This is a generic image, not a photo of the subject.Image via Wikimedia Commons

He was three when filming started and four when it wrapped — the littlest Rascal, Spanky's younger brother, Buckwheat's best friend. Zachary Mabry played Porky in The Little Rascals (1994), and it was his first, last, and only acting role. What he did instead is the most buttoned-up second act in this series: certified public accountant, Big Four auditor, airline finance, and — in a twist nobody predicted — Catholic podcaster.

Mabry's own summary of his fame, posted years ago: "don't be fooled by the rocks that I got I'm still Porky from the block." This is the verified story of where Zachary Mabry is now.

The Peak: Porky at Four (1994)

Born Zacary Vee Mabry on January 19, 1990, in Plano, Texas (raised in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma), Mabry auditioned for The Little Rascals by performing two songs from the Mary Poppins soundtrack — a four-year-old singing showtunes for Penelope Spheeris. It worked. As Porky, he was the gang's youngest member, all wide eyes and scene-stealing innocence.

His memories of the shoot, shared years later on MySpace, are faint but specific: he remembered filming the scene where Alfalfa is put on trial for burning down the clubhouse — and admitted he kept playing a trick on Bug Hall by pulling a piece of his chair out so he'd fall through. "Entertaining for him, but not so much for the producers," as one retrospective put it. The rascal was real.

And then — nothing. No more roles, no comeback attempts, no slow fade. The Little Rascals remains his first and only on-screen credit. At four years old, Zachary Mabry had completed his entire acting career, and he never looked back.

The Education: Oklahoma Accounting, Twice Over

Mabry enrolled at the University of Oklahoma's Price College of Business — and didn't just get a degree, he stacked them. Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and accounting (2012), then a Master of Accountancy in auditing (2013). The four-year-old who sang Mary Poppins grew up to audit financial statements.

The internships tell the story of a young man building deliberately: Capital Asset Management (2010), a student-assistant role in OU's graduate programs office (2011–2013), a three-month global internship at Ernst & Young (2012). EY hired him as an assurance associate in September 2013 — the Big Four, the brass ring of accounting. Two years later, he joined American Airlines as Staff Accountant II, promoted to Senior Accountant in March 2016. In September 2019, he founded his own firm: ZacMabry Ventures LLC in Dallas, Texas.

It is, by any measure, a exemplary professional arc — the kind career counselors describe and few achieve. And it started from a single film role at age four, banked and forgotten, while he did the unglamorous work of becoming an expert.

The Twist: The Roman Circus Podcast

Here is the part nobody saw coming. Mabry co-hosts the Roman Circus Podcast, which "dives into death-defying discussions of Catholic culture, tradition, news and more" — a show about the Catholic faith, hosted in part by the former Porky. He also serves as a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald, the London-based publication.

The faith-and-finance combination is unusual enough to be delightful: by day (or by career), the numbers; by microphone, the creeds. Mabry keeps the two worlds distinct but not separate — the Instagram posts mix professional updates with podcast episodes, the Cameo shoutouts trade on Porky nostalgia while the podcast trades on theology. He is, as his Instagram bio has it, a "former little rascal" — and clearly comfortable being both the accountant and the apostle.

He attended the 2014 Little Rascals reunion, stays active on Instagram (@zacmabry) and Cameo, and in December 2022 posted a birthday message to Ross Bagley — his on-screen bestie Buckwheat, still his friend nearly thirty years later. The gang, it turns out, was real.

The Pattern: The Rascals' Professional Class

Mabry's story completes a remarkable pattern among the Little Rascals kids: they grew up to be professionals. Tedford (Spanky): credit-union manager. Holmes (Darla): political science student. Woods (Stymie): music producer. Mabry (Porky): CPA and podcaster. Not a tragedy in the bunch — just a cohort of former child stars who treated the film as a childhood adventure and adulthood as the real project.

Mabry is the purest expression of it: one role, age four, then school, then work, then more school, then more work. No drama, no detours, no regrets on the record. The Mary Poppins audition songs led, by the longest possible route, to the audit trail — and he seems to have enjoyed every step.

Where Is Zachary Mabry Now?

As of 2026, Zachary Mabry runs ZacMabry Ventures LLC in Dallas, co-hosts the Roman Circus Podcast, contributes to the Catholic Herald, and engages fans on Instagram and Cameo. He has not acted since The Little Rascals (1994) — his only role, at age four.

Porky grew up to count the beans — and preach the good news. Still Porky from the block, now with two degrees, his own firm, a podcast, and a byline in London. The four-year-old who sang showtunes became the most interesting accountant in Texas, and he did it the old-fashioned way: one ledger, one episode, one honest day's work at a time. Four years old, one movie, zero regrets — and a second act most adults would envy.

The Audit Trail: From Big Four to His Own Firm

Mabry's accounting career deserves a closer look, because it is genuinely distinguished — not the fallback it might sound like, but a top-tier professional trajectory. Ernst & Young, where he started as an assurance associate in 2013, is one of the Big Four — the global firms that audit the world's largest companies, the brass ring for any accounting graduate. Landing there from OU's Price College of Business meant competing with thousands and winning.

American Airlines was the next step: Staff Accountant II, then Senior Accountant by March 2016 — the finance function of one of the world's largest airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, not far from where he grew up. Airline accounting is its own specialty: fleet financing, route profitability, the vast machinery of a company that is really a bank with wings. Mabry did it for years, earned the promotions, and then did what ambitious accountants do: he went out on his own.

ZacMabry Ventures LLC, founded September 2019 in Dallas, is the culmination — the former child star as entrepreneur, selling expertise rather than image. The firm's details are private, as he keeps them, but the shape is clear: a CPA with Big Four training and airline-finance experience, offering it directly. No intermediaries, no auditions, no one pulling a chair out from under him.

And the podcast runs alongside it all — the Roman Circus Podcast, the Catholic Herald contributions, the theology-and-tradition discussions that have nothing to do with debits and credits. The two careers don't compete; they complete. The accountant counts what is; the podcaster contemplates what matters. Porky, at four, sang Mary Poppins; at thirty-six, he audits and apostles. The range is the point.

Then vs Now: Two Chapters

Zachary Mabry filmed one movie at four and spent the next thirty years becoming the most interesting accountant in Texas.

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