Jesse LaVercombe

Jesse LaVercombe is a Canadian-American actor and writer. He is most noted for his performance in the film Violation, for which he won the ACTRA Award for Best Actor in 2021[1] and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards.[2]

He has also appeared in the films Mary Goes Round, The Things You Think I'm Thinking, Queen of the Morning Calm and Flowers of the Field, and has had guest roles in the television series Save Me, American Gods, The Detail and Murdoch Mysteries. As a writer, he wrote the screenplay for The Things You Think I'm Thinking,[3] and won the Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright award in 2019 for his theatrical play Hallelujah, It’s Holly.[4]

He is an alumnus of the National Theatre School of Canada and the Canadian Film Centre.

References
  1. "'Schitt's Creek' earns third consecutive ensemble win at ACTRA Toronto Awards". CityNews, February 23, 2021.
  2. Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada, March 30, 2021.
  3. "Outfest ’18 Interview: Sherren Lee on the Mind Games of “The Things You Think I’m Thinking”". The Movable Feast, July 14, 2018.
  4. "News (National): Playwrights Guild of Canada Announces the Winners of the 2019 Tom Hendry Awards". Theatre Alberta, October 29, 2019.


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