Isaiah Lehtinen
☼ Born on 26 December 1998, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
BiographyIsaiah Lehtinen was born and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia, before moving to Vancouver, where he fell in love with acting at a young age after responding to an open call on Craigslist. He went on to book roles in projects including The Good Doctor and Story of a Girl before stealing scenes in the Russo Brother's Deadly Class and the Quibi series When the Streetlights Go Out. Lehtinen also starred in the short film River Boy Blues, which was met with critical acclaim at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. He will next be seen as the lead of the feature film I Like Movies, which will premiere later this year. Lehtinen is also an accomplished musician, creating experimental hip-hop under the stage name Hermit. He recently released the Stage Clear EP which is available on all streaming platforms.
In the role of actor
I Like Movies – TIFF 2022 (23/09/2022)
A teenage cinephile works at his local video store to try and earn money to attend film school in I Like Movies. Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) is a 17-year-old high school senior in Burlington who is steadfast about attending the NYU Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. Lawrence takes a part-time job at […]