Kerr Hewitt, also credited professionally as Kjartan Hewitt, is a Canadian actor and writer. He won the Best Actor award at the Sicily Web Festival for his performance in the YouTube web series Clusterfuck (2018).
Career Acting
Hewitt began working in the entertainment industry as a teenager, on television series for the CBC and YTV. When he was 17, he began writing plays and musicals. He then went on to study a BA in English literature. He made an appearance in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) as Jimmy. Jimmy was the boyfriend of Scott Pilgrim's sister before being seduced by Pilgrim's roommate Wallace at a "Crash and the Boys" (a fictional version of Toronto band Broken Social Scene) concert and appearing in recurring gags with Wallace. Hewitt starred in a larger role in another feature film in 2010, This Movie Is Broken, playing Blake, the best friend of a young Toronto man who tries to impress a girl by taking her to a Broken Social Scene concert with them. The concert in the film was the real 2009 Harbourfront Centre concert, around which part of the plot revolves.
In 2018, he starred in the YouTube web series Clusterfuck, which follows the lives of millennials in downtown Toronto. Hewitt won the Best Actor award for his role at the Sicily Web Festival, where the series was given a premiere,.
Hewitt has starred most prominently in works with a strong Toronto identity: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, This Movie Is Broken, and Clusterfuck.
Writing He studied the Features program at Canadian Film Centre, turning one of his old plays – Claire, From the Bus – into a film and completing the course in 2017 at the age of 30. Claire, From the Bus had debuted on the Toronto theatre circuit in 2013, starring Bryn McAuley as Claire, with positive reception for Hewitt's writing. The film, directed by Jordan Canning, was released in 2016.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRole Notes2005CapoteDanny Burke2008Max PayneKid2010This Movie Is BrokenBlake2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldJimmy2013Nurse 3DOrderly2014DebugMel2015AnxietyvilleMr. Nobody2015Cold DeckBen2017Molly's GamePlayer2017Clusterf*ckBrian2019GoalieCal Gardiner2019Demons Inside MeToby Hunter2020Learning to Love AgainChris
Television YearTitleRole Notes2000Children of My HeartNikolaiTelevision film20032030 CEDr. Manno Susik3 episodes2003More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock StoryHigh School BoyTelevision film2004 The Winning SeasonProgram Boy2004Category 6: Day of DestructionTad2009 The ListenerBaggyEpisode: "Lisa Says"2009 The Future Life of JakeAaronTelevision film2009Being EricaMartinEpisode: "Papa Can You Hear Me?"2010Unnatural HistoryMilo PheifferEpisode: "Public School Enemies"2010Rookie BlueDaleEpisode: "Hot and Bothered"2011, 2015Murdoch MysteriesMatthew Trent / Corporal Young2 episodes2012Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownPeter PupkinsTelevision film2012KingStephen EnnisEpisode: "Justice Calvin Faulkner"2013Bomb GirlsKarlEpisode: "Guests of Honour"2013CrackedDamianEpisode: "The Light in the Black"2013State of SynGabrielEpisode #1.52014DarknetDarrenEpisode: "Darknet 2"2014ReignEduard2 episodes2015Saving HopeGraemeEpisode: "All the Pretty Horses"2015Dark MatterSergeant VossEpisode: "Pilot - Part 2"2015Swept UnderDennisTelevision film2016Houdini & DoyleReverend FarleyEpisode: "The Pall of LaPier"2017 The BeavertonBrice LarsonEpisode #1.72017 The StrainJeremiah3 episodes2018CondorHarold Floros2018–2019BlackoutEthan Reed9 episodes2019KilljoysSylas Robbel3 episodes2020 The Umbrella AcademyHalEpisode: "The Frankel Footage"
References
External links
Kerr Hewitt and Kjartan Hewitt on Rotten Tomatoes Kerr Hewitt and Kjartan Hewitt at the BFI Kerr Hewitt at Northern Stars.ca