He currently plays Henry in HBO's crime series Jett, and Young Hogarth in His Master's Voice. He has starred in independent films Imitation and Adam's Wall.
He has drummed since the age of five and currently plays with the indie rock group The Breakables.
Jesse has performed in the Stratford Festival productions of; Romeo & Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra starring Christopher Plummer,Three Sisters directed by the late Martha Henry, MacBeth,Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Provoked Wife, Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair and the late Michael Langham's final production of Love's Labour's Lost.
In regional theatres, Jesse has played Ken in Red at Montreal's Segal Centre for Performing Arts. Jesse has also appeared with the Soulpepper company in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Farther West[2]. At the Foster Festival in Niagara, Jesse played the leading role of Bob Hicks in Norm Fosters' Outlaw as well as the lovesick soldier Frederick in the World Premiere of 1812; both shows directed by Shaw Festival veteran Jim Mezon.
In western Canada, Jesse appeared in Theatre Calgary's production of Counsellor-at-Law and was nominated for his work as the grieving son Ben Mercer in Of the Fields, Lately by the Betty Mitchell Awards committee.
At Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, Jesse premiered two new plays appearing as Jordan in the social satire Redbone Coonhound and Karlmann in the English language debut of The Ugly One. He also originated the role of Henry in Alberta Theatre Projects' psycho-thriller Get Away.
Returning to classics, Jesse has tackled the title role in Romeo & Juliet at the Rideau Theatre, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Driftwood Theatre Group, Joseph in Pirandello's The Vise for Pie in the Sky-Stratford, and the young revolutionary Trofimov in the Guild Festival's The Cherry Orchard.
Novels Adapted to Stage
Turning classic novels into live theatre has been a large part of Jesse Dwyre's stage work.
Dwyre has been nominated for the Betty Mitchell Awards, the Montreal METAs (formerly Masques), Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards, MyEntertainment.com Awards [3] and the Stratford Festival's Tyrone Guthrie Awards Committee. He has won two Dora Awards, a Tyrone Guthrie Award and two My Entertainment World Awards [4]
Feature film
In Imitation (film), a movie directed by Frederico Hidalgo, Dwyre played the role of Fenton, a grocery-store stock boy in Montreal who wants to help Teresa (played by Vanessa Bauche) who is searching for her husband.
Adam's Wall is a tale of forbidden love between a Jewish boy and a Lebanese girl directed by Michael Mackenzie and produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin Films. Dwyre played Adam Levy, a Jewish teenager from Montreal's Mile-End district.[5]
Short film
In The Archivist Dwyre plays Cedric, an assistant projectionist at an aging movie theatre who risks confrontation with his supervisor when he investigates a series of mysterious disappearances. The film was written and directed by Jeremy Ball and shot by cinematographer Guy Godfree.[6]
Silas & the Tomb is a short film written by and starring Dwyre.[7] Set in the late nineteenth century, it is the tale of an undertaker who cuts corners and cannot seem to bury his mistakes. The film was adapted from H.P.Lovecraft's The Vault. The BRAVO! network supplied funding through its Bravo!FACT program.
Dwyre has also appeared in short films: Dangerous Heroes by Svjetlana Jaklenec, The Cats by Hakan Oztan, The Fursteneau Mysteries by Illya Klymkiw.
Television
Dwyre's television appearances include Henry in HBO's crime drama Jett opposite Carla Gugino. He returned to his classical training to play Romeo in Bravo's Shakespeare in Words and Music. Jesse played Dr. Josh Nolan in NBC's 10.5: Apocalypse, the poet Leigh Hunt in Cine Qua Non's Mary Shelley, eccentric arms dealer Colin in CBS's Beauty & the Beast, and. CBC's The Fifth Estate among others.
Music
Jesse is currently the drummer for indie rock band The Breakables. The group's debut album was independently released in 2024 and offers a mix of energetic rock and melodic chamber-pop.
Jesse was both drummer and lyricist for the now defunct alternative band Stylewinder: the group independently released two full length albums- Omnivigant and Incidental Music.
Aside from recording sessions for various pop, country and gospel artists, Jesse has also drummed for Swing Gitan a Django Reinhardt tribute act, the Serbian gypsy-punk group Roma Carnival, the Apartment 5 Swing Band and the 70's blues-inspired The Slow & Easy band in Toronto. He is a past member of the Trespassers - a rock/pop quintet composed of theatre artists which was fronted by Lucy Peacock (actress).
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