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]

Education

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

Career

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LaVercombe 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 screenplays for The Things You Think I'm Thinking[3] and Float,[4] and won the Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright award in 2019 for his theatrical play Hallelujah, It’s Holly.[5]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2015 The Telephone Game Jo-Jo the Beatnik
2017 Mary Goes Round Lawyer Doug
2017 The Things You Think I'm Thinking Caleb Short film; also writer
2019 Queen of the Morning Calm Sarge
2020 Violation Dylan / Greta's husband
2020 Flowers of the Field Maurice Pratt
2022 Height Markers Ted
2023 Float Writer
2024 Code 8: Part II Writer

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2017 Air Crash Investigation First Officer Chad Erickson Episode: "Killer Attitude"
2017 Save Me Plaid Shirt #1 Episode: "Injuries Due to Distracted Walking"
2017 American Gods Young Night Watchman Episode: "A Prayer for Mad Sweeney"
2017 Salvation Corporal Nevins Episode: "Another Trip Around the Sun"
2018 The Detail Zach Grayson Episode: "The Long Walk"
2019 Street Series Guy on the bench Episode: "Summer is Coming"
2019–2022 Murdoch Mysteries Jack Walker 13 episodes

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