# Jesse Aaron Dwyre

Jesse Aaron Dwyre is a Canadian actor, musician and writer. Dwyre has appeared in film, theatre and television. He currently plays Henry in HBO's crime series Jett, and Young Hogarth in His Masters Voice. He has starred in independent films Imitation (film) and Adam's Wall. He has drummed since the age of five primarily with the rock group Stylewinder.

## Training

Jesse Dwyre is a graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training in Stratford, and the inaugural class of the Canadian Film Centre Actors Conservatory.

## Stage

Dwyre originated the role of Jordan in the premiere of Redbone Coonhound at the Tarragon Theatre. Under the direction of Jim Mezon, Dwyre has played young cowboy Bob Hicks in Norm Fosters' Outlaw as well as the love-struck soldier Frederick in the World Premiere of 1812 at the Foster Festival. Dwyre also played the leading man, Joseph, in Luigi Pirandello's The Vise in Stratford Ontario.
Dwyre has performed at the Stratford Festival in Romeo and Juliet directed by Des McAnuff, Love's Labour's Lost, Caesar and Cleopatra with Christopher Plummer, and Chekov's Three Sisters a production directed by Martha Henry. Dwyre also worked with former Stratford artistic directors, David William in Measure for Measure, Richard Monette and Michael Langham in Love's Labours Lost. In Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Dwyre played the cutpurse Ezekiel Edgeworth.
Outside of repertory theatres, Dwyre has acted at Soulpepper (Great Expectations, Farther West), the Segal Centre for Performing Arts as Ken in Red (play) directed by Martha Henry. At Theatre Calgary Dwyre was nominated for his portrayal of Ben in Of the Fields, Latley directed by R.H. Thomson. Dwyre also played young communist-sympathizer Harry Becker in Counsellor-at-Law at Alberta Theatre Projects. Dwyre appeared in the premiere of Get Away and in The Ugly One at Tarragon Theatre. He has also performed the title role in Romeo and Juliet at Rideau Theatre, Lysander, in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Driftwood Theatre, Trofimov in the Guild Festival's production of The Cherry Orchard, Karlmann in The Ugly One at the Thousand Islands Playhouse and in the premiere of Blacks Don't Bowl for Black Theatre Workshop.
In classic novels adapted to the stage, Dwyre has played Bernard Marx in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World at Theatre Passe Muraille. He also played Oscar, the protagonist in The Tin Drum, for Unspun Theatre. Dwyre was the first actor to portray Shade, the lead role in the premiere of Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel at Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg.
Dwyre has been nominated for the Betty Mitchell Awards, the Montreal Masques, Montreal METAs, the Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards, MyEntertainment.com Awards and the Stratford Festival's Tyrone Guthrie Awards Committee. He has won two Dora Awards, a Tyrone Guthrie Award and two My Entertainment World Awards

## Feature film

In Imitation (film), a movie directed by Frederico Hidalgo, Dwyre played the role of Fenton, a grocery-store stock boy in Montreal who wants to help Teresa (played by Vanessa Bauche) who is searching for her husband.
Adam's Wall is a tale of forbidden love between a Jewish boy and a Lebanese girl directed by Michael Mackenzie and produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin Films. Dwyre played Adam Levy, a Jewish teenager from Montreal's Mile-End district.

## Short film

In The Archivist Dwyre plays Cedric, an assistant projectionist at an aging movie theatre who risks confrontation with his supervisor when he investigates a series of mysterious disappearances. The film was written and directed by Jeremy Ball and shot by cinematographer Guy Godfree.
Silas & the Tomb is a short film written by and starring Dwyre. Set in the late nineteenth century, it is the tale of an undertaker who cuts corners and cannot seem to bury his mistakes. The film was adapted from H.P.Lovecraft's The Vault. The BRAVO! network supplied funding through its Bravo!FACT program.
Dwyre has also appeared in short films: Dangerous Heroes by Svjetlana Jaklenec, The Cats by Hakan Oztan, The Fursteneau Mysteries by Illya Klymkiw.

## Television

Dwyre's television appearances include Henry in HBO's upcoming crime drama JETT. Dwyre has also played Romeo in Bravo's Shakespeare in Words and Music, NBC's 10.5: Apocalypse, Cine Qua Non's Mary Shelley, CBS's Beauty & the Beast and Clementine, and CBC's The Fifth Estate among others.

## Music

Dwyre began drumming at the age of five. He has recorded with and/or backed performers in Montreal, Kingston, Stratford and Toronto. Dwyre has played with the Montreal Gypsy-Jazz Ensemble and the Apartment 5 Swing Band. Dwyre was a member of the Trespassers with Lucy Peacock (actress).
Dwyre has co-written and recorded two full-length albums with 'Stylewinder'; an indie-pop-punk band which released Omnivigant in 2000 and followed it with Incidental Music in 2002.

## Personal life

Jesse Aaron Joseph Dwyre was born in Kingston and grew up in the small mill town of Lyndhurst, Ontario.