Actor, aspiring stand-up comedian has twist in resume

His bio reads like those of many up-and-coming actors.

A background in improv. A recurring role on a soap. A checklist of hobbies — snowboarding, Parkour, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts — that would make even the most seasoned insurance agent dyspeptic.

He’s also an aspiring stand-up comic who cites Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy and Kevin Hart among his inspirations.

But one thing separates Henderson’s Mace Coronel from the rest: He’s 10.

Mace stars as Dicky Harper, one of the troublemaking quadruplets at the heart of “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky &Dawn” (8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nickelodeon). According to his mother, Grace Coronel, he’s always been “mature for his age.”

The stand-up dreams began in 2011, she says, the same year the family moved back to Clark County, where she grew up and graduated from Valley High School, from New York City, where Mace was born.

“I’m, like, ‘Wow. Imagine if I could do that one day. Entertain everyone,’ ” Mace says of his early love of comedy.

But since the Strip didn’t offer many opportunities for a 7-year-old comic, he channeled his efforts into acting, landing his first professional audition: a Samsung commercial. Other commercials and student films followed, as did a guest spot on The CW’s “Hart of Dixie.” The role of R.J. Forrester on “The Bold and the Beautiful” followed.

Given the raciness of the daytime drama, it’s easy to wonder if he’s ever been allowed to watch it.

“Yeah, of course,” Mace says, matter-of-factly. “I don’t watch it all the time. It’s not a show that I’d watch 24/7.”

That’s as good a segue as any to get back to that “mature for his age” assessment.

Grace recalls the first acting class she paid for and, after the initial session, 7-year-old Mace asking if she could get her money back. “I mean, acting is being,” she remembers him saying, “so how is she gonna teach me to be?”

Mace, who’s home-schooled, has spent three weeks a month since the beginning of summer “being” on the L.A. set of “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky &Dawn.”

“It’s amazing,” he says of the experience. “I’ve been having so much fun.”

He describes his role on the comedy, which draws its laughs from pee and poop jokes and little old ladies getting hit in the head with snowballs, as “a pint-sized ladies man.”

Wearing sunglasses and always on the make, Dicky Harper is equal parts young Scott Baio, an even younger Joey Lawrence and Poochie from “The Simpsons.”

“He’s really sweet,” Mace says. “He’s confident. He’s got style. I personally love him.”

Mace can next be seen in the Nickelodeon holiday movie “Santa Hunters.” And, once “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky &Dawn” wraps, he’ll be back on the audition circuit, but only for the projects that really speak to him. “We let him pick and choose,” Grace insists.

Until then, he’ll spend his downtime being a kid. Or as close to a kid as any 10-year-old who makes sure to cover all the publicity department’s talking points, rattle off his co-stars’ credits and thank his “great cast” could possibly be.

Even if that means risking life and limb, not to mention the wrath of producers, with his hobbies.

Mace says he signed a contract promising to be careful. After all, any serious injury could shut down production and lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of delays.

“But sometimes I also live life dangerously,” he admits, mischievously.

“I’m always up for adventure, man.”

Reality roundup: Las Vegans Lori Harrigan-Mack and Howard “Woody” Carter will compete on “The Biggest Loser: Glory Days” (8 p.m. Thursday, KSNV-TV, Channel 3). Las Vegas MMA legend Randy Couture begins battling for the mirrorball on “Dancing With the Stars” (8 p.m. Monday, KTNV-TV, Channel 13). And “Le Reve” cast member Vadym Kuvakin will compete in the three-hour made-in-Vegas special “American Ninja Warrior: USA vs. the World” (8 p.m. Monday, KSNV-TV, Channel 3).

Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4567.