Percy Hynes White
☼ Born on 8 December 2001, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Biography
Percy Hynes White has been acting since the age of two, beginning with performances in short films in and around his hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
By age 9, he was playing the lead in "Winners," and soon was chosen for leading roles in other short films, including "The Confessional" and "Little Man." Percy was featured in Don McKellar's "The Grand Seduction," which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Since then, he has starred in "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb"; "Our House" opposite Thomas Mann and Nicola Peltz; "Milton's Secret," with Donald Sutherland; and "Rupture," opposite Noomi Rapace.
Percy Hynes White also had the lead role in "Edge of Winter," opposite Joel Kinnaman and Tom Holland; and "Cast No Shadow," which earned him Best Actor at the 2014 Atlantic Film Festival and the Rising Star Award at the 2014 Edmonton International Film Festival.
Percy played a supporting lead in "I Like Movies," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022 and earned White a Best Supporting Actor Award from The Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Among his current projects are "My Old Ass," by celebrated director Megan Park for Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap, and "Winter Spring Summer Fall," where he plays the lead role opposite his "Wednesday" series co-star Jenna Ortega.
Select television credits include two seasons as series regular on "The Gifted" for Fox, a spin-off series in the universe of Marvel's X
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-Men opposite Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, and Natalie Alyn Lind, a role on Jordan Peele's reboot of the cult classic "The Twilight Zone" for CBS: All Access, "The Transplant" for NBCUniversal, two seasons on "Between" for Netflix, and the limited series "11.22.63" for Hulu starring James Franco.
Percy Hynes White also played a series regular role on "Pretty Hard Cases" for CBC. Most notably, he stars as Xavier Thorpe in "Wednesday," produced by Tim Burton for Netflix.
Percy Hynes White is based in Los Angeles and Toronto.
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 […]
First Round Down (10/05/2017)
A hockey star turned hitman returns to his hometown in First Round Down. Ten years ago, Tim Tucker (Dylan Bruce) helped lead the Hamilton Seahawks to Sterling Cup victory, even though a knee injury forced him to retire. Tim returns home after a decade away, working a menial job as a pizza delivery boy and […]