| Sterling Jarvis | |
| Birth Place: | Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada[1] |
| Occupation: | Actor, singer |
| Years Active: | 1997–present |
Sterling Jarvis is a Canadian actor and singer.[2] Originally from Nova Scotia, he currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2012 for Outstanding Performance by a Male (Musical) for his performance in Caroline, or Change.[3] He has also appeared on stage in productions of We Will Rock You, Of Mice and Men, The Lion King, Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park,[4] Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man and Lynn Nottage's Ruined,[5] for which he garnered a Dora nomination in 2011 for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Play.
On television he has had guest roles in Undergrads, The West Wing, The Eleventh Hour, 'Til Death Do Us Part, The Border, The Bridge, InSecurity, Warehouse 13, Covert Affairs, Suits, Lost Girl, Nikita, and .
Jarvis has also been an R&B songwriter and performer. With the group Spunkadelic, he cowrote the Juno Award-nominated 1990 single "Take Me Like I Am". He released a single, "Alone With You", on Canopy Records in 2011, and recorded the theme music for the television series Zoboomafoo.
Jarvis also provided the singing voice for Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Country and for Ian Jones-Quartey's character Radicles in his Cartoon Network series, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Rad Likes Robots".
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997–1998 | Donkey Kong Country | Donkey Kong | Singing Voice Uncredited 25 Episodes | |
| 2001 | Undergrads | Voice 2 Episodes | ||
| 2005 | data-sort-value="West Wing, The" | The West Wing | Secret Service Agent | Episode: "Freedonia" |
| data-sort-value="Eleventh Hour, The" | The Eleventh Hour | Episode: "Special Delivery" | ||
| Television film | ||||
| 2006 | data-sort-value="Sentinel, The" | The Sentinel | Post Agent #1 | |
| 2007 | data-sort-value="Til Death Do Us Part" | 'Til Death Do Us Part | Officer Sears | Episode: "The Airplane Murder" |
| 2009 | data-sort-value="Border, The" | The Border | Edouard Baseke | Episode: "Spoils of War" |
| 2010 | data-sort-value="Bridge, The" | The Bridge | Ken | Episode: "Painted Ladies" |
| 2011 | InSecurity | Masud | Episode: "The Ligerian Candidate" | |
| Warehouse 13 | Adam | Episode: "Trial" Pilot | ||
| Covert Affairs | General Oubash | Episode: "Half a World Away" | ||
| Suits | Daniel Vega | Episode: "Play the Man" | ||
| Life with Boys | Coach Luther | Episode: "Disarmed with Boys" | ||
| 2012 | Lost Girl | Vice Principal Dickerson | Episode: "School’s Out" | |
| Nikita | Secret Service Supervisor | Episode: "The Sword’s Edge" | ||
| 2014 | Wolves | Principal | ||
| Michael Haughton | Television film | |||
| 2016 | Mr. Powers | 2 Episodes | ||
| 2017 | OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes | Singing Voice Episode: "Rad Likes Robots" | ||
| Additional voices | Video game | |||