Noah Leslie Hathaway (born November 13, 1971) is an American actor and a former teen idol.

He is best known for his roles as Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story and for portraying Boxey on the original television series Battlestar Galactica.

At the age of six he appeared in Battlestar Galactica, portraying Boxey, for which he received a nomination in the first Young Artist Awards.

For the role Hathaway performed his own stunts, leading to a few near-injuries;[4] German director Wolfgang Petersen said: I sought a good-looking boy of athletic build with the quality of fierce determination.

The role requires the character to ride a horse expertly, fly on the back of a dragon, struggle through a swamp, clamber over rocks and fight a ferocious wolf-vampire.Hathaway observed: Well, what it was — Wolfgang Petersen was notorious for his actors doing their own stunts.

Trained in martial arts, Hathaway would later earn black belts in Tang Soo Do and Shotokan Karate, and also competed as a Muay Thai boxer, and learned American Kenpo from Dr. Jerry Erickson.