Daniel Diemer

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Daniel Diemer
Born (1996-06-21) 21 June 1996 (age 28)
Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Education Camosun College
OccupationActor
Years active2014–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 . [1] Prior to that, he played smaller roles in The Man in the High Castle and Sacred Lies .

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Early life

Diemer was born in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. [2] His father is Greg Diemer, a tennis coach, and he has a brother named Aaron. [3]

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. [2] He then entered pre-medical classes at Camosun College. [4] He took time off after a semester and started modeling for an art class. [2] [5] He was then living in Vancouver and attending acting masterclasses. [6] He graduated from the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2016. [2]

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. [4] He then got a role in the 2016 movie Bloody Blacksmith, and acted in four short films between 2017 and 2018. [7] [8]

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. [8] [9] He played a role in the Amazon Prime Video historical drama The Man in the High Castle. [4]

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. [6]

The movie received favorable reviews, [10] [11] [12] and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Festival. [13]

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. [14]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016Bloody BlacksmithNorris [7]
2020 The Half of It Paul Munsky [5]
2022 Brazen Rand Morgan [15]
2023 Supercell William Brody [16]
2023 Little Brother Jake [17]
2024 Absolution Kyle Conner [18]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 The Man in the High Castle Kent
Family PicturesKillington Television film
2021 Black Summer Luke
2022 The Midnight Club Bill/Rhett
2024 Under the Bridge Scott Bentland
Upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians TysonIn production

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