Brett Davern

Brett Davern is an American actor whose interest in theater and acting took hold at Madrona Elementary School in Edmonds, Washington, where he was born and raised. He went on to Edmonds-Woodway High School and trained over summers at the Stagedoor Manor center in upstate New York, then enrolled at New York City's American Musical and Dramatic Academy after finishing high school in 2001. Auditioning there, he won the lead in his first film, Beautiful Ohio, as William, opposite William Hurt, Rita Wilson and Julianna Margulies, and he later guest starred on Medium, NCIS, In Plain Sight and Cold Case. From 2011 he played Jake Rosati on MTV's Awkward, which in 2013 earned a People's Choice Award in the favorite cable comedy category. His film work includes The Pool Boys, Born to Race: Fast Track (2014), Love & Mercy (2015) and The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), and in 2016 he appeared in an episode of Shameless.