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web series ''Clusterfuck'' (2018).

Career

Acting

Hewitt began working in the entertainment industry as a teenager, on television series for the

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and YTV. When he was 17, he began writing plays and musicals. He then went on to study a BA in English literature. He made an appearance in

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's '' Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' (2010) as Jimmy. Jimmy was the boyfriend of Scott Pilgrim's sister before being seduced by Pilgrim's roommate Wallace at a "Crash and the Boys" (a fictional version of Toronto band

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) concert and appearing in recurring gags with Wallace. Hewitt starred in a larger role in another feature film in 2010, ''

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'', playing Blake, the best friend of a young Toronto man who tries to impress a girl by taking her to a Broken Social Scene concert with them. The concert in the film was the real 2009 Harbourfront Centre concert, around which part of the plot revolves. In 2018, he starred in the

web series ''Clusterfuck'', which follows the lives of millennials in downtown Toronto. Hewitt won the Best Actor award for his role at the Sicily Web Festival, where the series was given a premiere,. Hewitt has starred most prominently in works with a strong

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identity: ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'', ''This Movie Is Broken'', and ''Clusterfuck''.

Writing

He studied the Features program at

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, turning one of his old plays – ''Claire, From the Bus'' – into a film and completing the course in 2017 at the age of 30. ''Claire, From the Bus'' had debuted on the Toronto theatre circuit in 2013, starring

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as Claire, with positive reception for Hewitt's writing. The film, directed by

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, was released in 2016.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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