Kerr Hewitt
{{Short description|Canadian actor and writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
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{{Cite web|title=Kjartan Hewitt|url=http://cfccreates.com/alumni/2404|access-date=10 August 2020|website=cfccreates.com}} Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) as Jimmy.{{cite web|url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-spooked-30960837/episode/ep-16-kjartan-hewitt-35071726/|access-date=10 August 2020|website=www.iheart.com|title=Episode 16: Kjartan Hewitt}} 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){{cite web|last=Dombal|first=Ryan|title=Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning Talks Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/39313-broken-social-scenes-brendan-canning-talks-scott-pilgrim-soundtrack/|access-date=10 August 2020|website=Pitchfork|date=30 June 2010 }} concert and appearing in recurring gags with Wallace.{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ideJGov8c9E|time=00:49–01:50|title=Scott Pilgrim vs. the World {{!}} Every Musical Performance (feat. Sex Bob-Omb & The Clash at Demonhead)|publisher=Universal Pictures|via=YouTube|accessdate=10 August 2020}} 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.{{cite web|date=22 June 2010|title=This Movie Is Broken|url=https://www.shedoesthecity.com/this_movie_is_broken|access-date=10 August 2020|website=Shedoesthecity}}
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,.{{cite web|title=Mississauga Director Launches Gritty and Exciting New Web Series|url=https://www.insauga.com/mississauga-director-launches-gritty-and-exciting-new-web-series|access-date=10 August 2020|website=www.insauga.com|date=17 October 2018 }}
Hewitt has starred most prominently in works with a strong Toronto identity: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, This Movie Is Broken, and Clusterfuck.{{cite magazine|last=Sacks|first=Rebecca|title=Exactly How Canadian Is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/08/exactly-how-canadian-is-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world|access-date=10 August 2020|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=13 August 2010 }}
=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,{{cite web|title=Claire, From the Bus|website=The Toronto Theatre Database|url=https://ttdb.ca/shows/claire-from-the-bus/|access-date=10 August 2020}}{{cite web|last=Torontoist|date=15 February 2013|title=Urban Planner: February 15, 2013|url=https://torontoist.com/2013/02/urban-planner-february-15-2013/|access-date=10 August 2020|website=Torontoist}} with positive reception for Hewitt's writing.{{cite web|last=Mooney|first=Sam|date=18 February 2013|title=Review: Claire, From the Bus (Liars Theatre co.)|url=https://www.mooneyontheatre.com/2013/02/17/review-claire-from-the-bus-liars-theatre-co/|access-date=10 August 2020|website=Mooney on Theatre}} The film, directed by Jordan Canning, was released in 2016.{{cite web|title=CLAIRE, FROM THE BUS|url=http://www.cfccreates.com/productions/337-claire-from-the-bus|access-date=10 August 2020|website=www.cfccreates.com}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ !Year !Title !Role !class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 2005
|Danny Burke | |
| 2008
|Kid | |
| 2010
|Blake | |
| 2010
|Jimmy | |
| 2013
|Orderly | |
| 2014
|Mel | |
| 2015
|Anxietyville |Mr. Nobody | |
| 2015
|Ben | |
| 2017
|Player | |
| 2017
|Clusterf*ck |Brian | |
| 2019
|Cal Gardiner | |
| 2019
|Demons Inside Me |Toby Hunter | |
| 2020
|Learning to Love Again |Chris | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 2000
|Nikolai |Television film |
| 2003
|Dr. Manno Susik |3 episodes |
| 2003
|More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story |High School Boy | rowspan="3" |Television film |
| 2004
|data-sort-value="Winning Season, The" | The Winning Season |Program Boy |
| 2004
|Category 6: Day of Destruction |Tad |
| 2009
|data-sort-value="Listener, The" | The Listener |Baggy |Episode: "Lisa Says" |
| 2009
|data-sort-value="Future Life of Jake, The" | The Future Life of Jake |Aaron |Television film |
| 2009
|Martin |Episode: "Papa Can You Hear Me?" |
| 2010
|Milo Pheiffer |Episode: "Public School Enemies" |
| 2010
|Dale |Episode: "Hot and Bothered" |
| 2011, 2015
|Matthew Trent / Corporal Young |2 episodes |
| 2012
|Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |Peter Pupkins |Television film |
| 2012
|King |Stephen Ennis |Episode: "Justice Calvin Faulkner" |
| 2013
|Karl |Episode: "Guests of Honour" |
| 2013
|Damian |Episode: "The Light in the Black" |
| 2013
|Gabriel |Episode #1.5 |
| 2014
|Darren |Episode: "Darknet 2" |
| 2014
|Eduard |2 episodes |
| 2015
|Graeme |Episode: "All the Pretty Horses" |
| 2015
|Sergeant Voss |Episode: "Pilot - Part 2" |
| 2015
|Dennis |Television film |
| 2016
|Reverend Farley |Episode: "The Pall of LaPier" |
| 2017
|data-sort-value="Beaverton, The" | The Beaverton |Brice Larson |Episode #1.7 |
| 2017
|data-sort-value="Strain, The" | The Strain |Jeremiah | rowspan="2" |3 episodes |
| 2018
|Harold Floros |
| 2018–2019
|Blackout |Ethan Reed |9 episodes |
| 2019
|Sylas Robbel |3 episodes |
| 2020
|data-sort-value="Umbrella Academy, The" | The Umbrella Academy |Hal |Episode: "The Frankel Footage" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1417654|Kjartan Hewitt}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kerr_hewitt Kerr Hewitt] and [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kjartan_hewitt Kjartan Hewitt] on Rotten Tomatoes
- [https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bd72424d8 Kerr Hewitt]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and [https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2be3035ca7 Kjartan Hewitt]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} at the BFI
- [https://www.northernstars.ca/hewitt_kerr/ Kerr Hewitt] at Northern Stars.ca
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Category:Canadian male film actors
Category:Canadian male television actors
Category:Canadian male voice actors
Category:21st-century Canadian male actors