Connor Jessup Biography

Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for his role as Ben Mason on the TNT science fiction television series Falling Skies (2011–2015) and for his roles in the ABC anthology series American Crime (2016–2017).

He has also starred in feature films, most notably in the award-winning Blackbird (2012) and Closet Monster (2015).

Connor Jessup Age

Connor Jessup was born on June 23, 1994, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born and raised in Toronto Canada. He is 25 years old as of 2019.

Connor Jessup Net worth

Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor, writer, and director who has an estimated net worth of $ 5 million dollars as of 2019.

Connor Jessup Gay

Connor Jessup is openly gay and came out publicly in a post on Instagram on June 2019. “I knew I was gay when I was thirteen, but I hid it for years,” he wrote. “I folded it and slipped it under the rest of my emotional clutter. Not worth the hassle.

No one will care anyway. If I can just keep making it smaller and smaller. My shame took the form of a shrug, but it was a shame.”

“I’m a white, cis man from an upper-middle-class liberal family. Acceptance was never a question. But still, suspended in all this privilege, I balked,” Jessup continued. “It took me years.

Connor Jessup Actor

Connor Jessup began acting at the age of 11 as a child actor. After various early jobs, including a role in a stage adaptation of The Full Monty, Jessup got a lead role in the children’s television series The Saddle Club, for which he is also credited with conceptualizing the plot of one episode.

He served as executive producer for the independent film Amy George, which played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2011, Jessup was cast as the main character in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies.

He starred on the show for five seasons. In 2012, Jessup starred in the Canadian independent film Blackbird, in which he played a troubled teen falsely accused of planning a school shooting.

Jessup’s performance received positive reviews and the film won various awards, including the Best Canadian First Feature Film award at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film won three awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and won the Vancouver International Film Festival award for Best Canadian Feature Film. It also screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2015, Jessup also starred in the feature film Closet Monster, which won the Best Canadian Film Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at various film festivals around the world, before subsequently being released nationwide on July 2016.

In 2016, Jessup starred in the Emmy-winning ABC series American Crime as Taylor Blaine. His performance was praised by critics. He returned for the third season as Coy Henson.

In 2018, it was announced that Jessup would be starring as Tyler Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key, an adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s popular comic series of the same name.

Connor Jessup As a filmmaker

Jessup has stated in numerous interviews that his intention is to work in the film industry beyond acting, as a director and filmmaker. He had an interview with Toronto Star, Jessup said that directing “is where my mind and heart [are] at the moment”.

In 2014, Jessup starred in the short film Fragments, and in 2015, Jessup’s short film Boy, which he wrote and directed, and was funded by bravoFACT, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2016, Jessup was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s annual list of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His short film Lira’s Forest, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Jessup wants to expand this story with a feature film, Simon’s Forest.

In 2017, it was announced that Jessup would be directing a documentary profile of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul for FilmStruck and The Criterion Collection. The film was released in the spring of 2018.

Influences

As a director, Jessup has expressed a particular fascination with Japanese film and culture and has stated in interviews that he is highly influenced by East Asian cinema, including directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Yang, Yasujirō Ozu, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He has also expressed admiration for directors Abbas Kiarostami, Andrew Haigh, and Ira Sachs.

Connor Jessup Movies

• Skating to New York 2014
• Little Coffins 2014
• Fragments 2014
• Boy 2015
• White Lie 2019
• Clifton Hill 2019
• Strange But True 2019
• A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2018
• Lira’s Forest 2017
• Crazy House 2015

Connor Jessup Tv Shows

• Locke & Key 2019
• American Crime 2017
• American Crime 2016
• Falling Skies 2011-2015
• King 2011
• The Saddle Club 2008-2009
• The Jon Dore Television Show 2007

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