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]
LaVercombe is an alumnus of the National Theatre School of Canada and the Canadian Film Centre.
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]
| 2015 | data-sort-value="Telephone Game, The" | The Telephone Game | Jo-Jo the Beatnik | |
| 2017 | Mary Goes Round | Lawyer Doug | ||
| 2017 | data-sort-value="Things You Think I'm Thinking, The" | 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 | Writer |
| 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 | data-sort-value="Detail, The" | 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 |