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Kerr Hewitt, also credited professionally as Kjartan Hewitt, is a Canadian actor and writer. He won the Best Actor award at the Sicily Web Festival for his performance in the YouTube web series Clusterfuck (2018).

Hewitt began working in the entertainment industry as a teenager, on television series for the CBC 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 Edgar Wright'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 Broken Social Scene) concert and appearing in recurring gags with Wallace.

Hewitt starred in a larger role in another feature film in 2010, This Movie Is Broken, 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 YouTube 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 Toronto identity: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, This Movie Is Broken, and Clusterfuck.

Awards

Kjartan Hewitt

Austin Revolution Film Festival

Sicily Webfest

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