Daniel Diemer
{{Short description|Canadian actor}}
{{infobox person
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|6|21|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada
|education = Camosun College
|occupation = Actor
|years_active = 2014–present
}}
Daniel Diemer (born 21 June 1996) is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Paul in the Netflix film The Half of It.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9683478/fullcredits/#cast |title=The Half of It (2020) |access-date=2025-01-20 |via=IMDb}} Prior to that, he played smaller roles in The Man in the High Castle and Sacred Lies.
Early life
Diemer was born in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.{{Cite web |last=Coles |first=Keri |date=2019-03-15 |title=Victoria actor heads to New York for big break in major movie |url=https://www.vicnews.com/entertainment/victoria-actor-heads-to-new-york-for-big-break-in-major-movie-52058 |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Victoria News |language=en}} His father is a tennis coach, and he has a brother named Aaron.{{Cite web |title=Daniel Diemer - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8159701/bio/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}
At the age of 5, he started playing soccer and intended to become an athlete professionally, but his sudden growth spurt impeded his speed. He turned to tennis instead before a back injury forced him out of an athletic career. He then entered pre-medical classes at Camosun College.{{Cite web |last=Devlin |first=Mike |date=2020-05-01 |title=Acting proves right career choice for Brentwood Bay's Daniel Diemer |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/acting-proves-right-career-choice-for-brentwood-bay-s-daniel-diemer-1.24127678 |access-date=2020-05-03 |website=Times Colonist}} He took time off after a semester and started modeling for an art class.{{Cite web |last=Dodson |first=P. Claire |date=2020-05-01 |title="The Half of It" Star Daniel Diemer Has His Own Taco Sausage Recipe |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-half-of-it-netflix-daniel-diemer-paul-munsky-interview |access-date=2020-05-03 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en}} He was then living in Vancouver and attending acting masterclasses.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Trey |date=2020-04-30 |title=Don't call The Half of It's Daniel Diemer a Hollywood pretty boy |url=https://theface.com/culture/the-half-of-it-daniel-diemer-alice-wu-netflix-interview |access-date=2020-05-03 |website=The Face |language=en-gb}} He graduated from the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2016.
Career
Diemer's first screen role was in a Sidney York music video in 2014. After that, he enrolled in the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts, studying film and TV acting. He didn't book any roles in his first two years of auditions. He then got a role in the 2016 movie Bloody Blacksmith, and acted in four short films between 2017 and 2018.{{Cite web |last=McKenzie |first=Tevin |date=2022-11-02 |title=Why Daniel Diemer Looks Familiar In The Midnight Club |url=https://www.thethings.com/why-daniel-diemer-looks-familiar-in-the-midnight-club/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=TheThings |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Daniel Diemer|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm8159701/|website=IMDb|access-date=2020-05-03}}{{better source|date = May 2020}}
In 2018, Diemer played a recurring character in the TV series Sacred Lies for four seasons. He then starred in Emma Fielding: More Bitter Than Death and Family Pictures.{{Cite web |last=Dwilson |first=Stephanie Dube |date=2019-02-10 |title=Hallmark's 'Emma Fielding Mysteries: More Bitter Than Death': Cast & Where Filmed |url=https://entertainmentnow.com/news/emma-fielding-mysteries-more-bitter-than-death-cast-where-filmed/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=EntertainmentNow |language=en-US}} He played a role in the Amazon Prime Video historical drama The Man in the High Castle.
= ''The Half of It'' (2020) =
Diemer played a lead role in Alice Wu's coming-of-age movie The Half of It, which was distributed by Netflix and premiered on 1 May 2020. He played Paul Munsky, a clumsy football player who asks the protagonist, Ellie Chu, to help him woo a girl they both have a crush on by writing her letters. Wu held over 600 auditions for the part before discovering Diemer.
The movie received favorable reviews,{{Cite web |last=Menta |first=Anna |date=2020-04-29 |title=The Half of It on Netflix Review: A Love Letter to Lesbian Teen Longing |url=https://decider.com/2020/04/29/the-half-of-it-review-netflix-leah-lewis-lesbian-romance/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Decider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=2020-04-29 |title='The Half of It' Review: Closeted Student Plays Cyrano in Delightful YA Romcom |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/half-of-it-netflix-990250/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Turner |first=Kyle |date=2020-05-01 |title=‘The Half of It’ Review: Being Yourself (and That Person, Too) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/movies/the-half-of-it-review.html |access-date=2025-01-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Festival.{{Cite web|title=The Half of It Is an Absolutely Perfect High School Rom-com|url=https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/the-half-of-it-review-a-perfect-high-school-rom-com.html|last=Singh-Kurtz|first=Sangeeta|date=2020-05-01|website=The Cut|language=en-us|access-date=2020-05-03}}
=''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' (2024)=
Diemer will appear in the upcoming second season of Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, playing Tyson, the main character's younger Cyclops half-brother.{{cite news |last1=Ortiz |first1=Andi |date=2024-07-25 |title=‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Casts Daniel Diemer as Tyson the Cyclops |url=https://www.thewrap.com/percy-jackson-season-2-tyson-daniel-diemer/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |work=The Wrap}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 2016
|Bloody Blacksmith |Norris |
| 2020
|Paul Munsky |
| 2022
|Rand Morgan |
| 2023
|William Brody |
| 2023
|Jake |
| 2024
|Kyle Conner |
= Television =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| rowspan="2" |2019
|Kent | |
| Family Pictures
|Killington |
| 2021
|Luke | |
| 2022
|Bill/Rhett | |
| 2024
|Scott Bentland | |
| Upcoming
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians |Tyson |In production |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|8159701}}
- {{instagram|daniel_diemer}}
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Category:21st-century Canadian male actors