Known for Actor, writer Name Jared Keeso | Role Actor | |
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Awards Canadian Screen Award - Shaw Media Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role Nominations Canadian Comedy Award for Internet / Best Writing in a Web Series Movies and TV shows Keep Your Head Up - Kid: The, I Love You - Beth Cooper, The Marine 3: Homefront, Preggoland, A Beginner's Guide to Similar People Scott Wiper, Jacob Tierney, Real Bosse, Jonathan Sobol, Claude Legault Profiles |
Letterkenny's Jared Keeso in studio q
Jared Keeso ( , born July 1, 1984) is an award-winning Canadian actor. He currently stars as the series lead in the role of Wayne in the sitcom Letterkenny, which he also created and as the series lead of 19-2 in the role of Ben Chartier.
Contents
- Letterkennys Jared Keeso in studio q
- Jared keeso motivates us to shop the neighbourhood
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References

Jared keeso motivates us to shop the neighbourhood
Life and career

Keeso was born in Listowel, Ontario. As a youth, Keeso played for the Strathroy Rockets of the Western Ontario Hockey League and the Listowel Cyclones of the GOJHL.

Keeso starred in two made-for-TV movies about the life of former hockey coach and player (and controversial commentator) Don Cherry, playing Cherry himself. The first film, titled Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story, aired in early 2010 on the CBC, and was followed by The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II in 2012.

Keeso, along with Mike Borden, launched the Play Fun Games Pictures. The channel became an immediate success with video shorts depicting the quintessential Canadian farmer and the associated struggles. The project, launched under the name Letterkenny Problems, has attracted around 11 million views (as of November 2015) since its launch in the middle of 2013, and the videos are the basis for the 2016 television sitcom Letterkenny. Filming of the second season took place throughout May and June 2016 in Sudbury, Ontario.
Keeso has had a variety of minor roles in both television series and movies, but is best known for his role as the leading character Ben Chartier in the English adaptation of 19-2, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award in 2015 for 'Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role'; and for his starring role in two Canadian biographic films of legendary hockey commentator Don Cherry, for which he won a Leo Award for 'Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama' and a Gemini Award for 'Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series'.

Keeso also has less prominent roles in a few other films, such as Nicholas in Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball; Adam in the high-school themed Lifetime original movie Seven Deadly Sins; and Simon in the drug-themed Charlie.