Yonas Kibreab leads Pixar's Elio as a lonely 11-year-old boy abducted by aliens and mistaken for Earth's ambassador. Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, and Jameela Jamil round out a supporting cast ...

Rising star Yonas Kibreab, who voices the titular character, revealed the nuances of emotional voice acting versus on-camera performance."Communicating emotions through a mic is a lot harder than ...

Yonas Kibreab provides the voice of Elio himself. ABC7's Sophie Flay is seen with "Elio" star Yonas Kibreab at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif.

Yonas Kibreab: Okay, so when I first got the full script, what tied me to this character of Elio was that he can relate to me in a lot of ways. I feel like he's such a quirky kid.

Yonas Kibreab, a rising 14-year-old actor of Filipino and African American heritage, voices Elio with understated charm, while sci-fi veteran Zoe Saldaña plays his no-nonsense aunt, Olga Solís.