Daniel Diemer

Daniel Diemer is a Canadian actor whose first screen appearance came in a music video for the singer Sidney York in 2014. He trained in film and television acting at the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 2016, and after two years of auditions that brought no roles he won a part in the 2016 movie Bloody Blacksmith, followed by four short films. In 2018 he took a recurring role in the series Sacred Lies and appeared in Emma Fielding: More Bitter Than Death, Family Pictures and the Amazon historical drama The Man in the High Castle. He is best known for playing Paul Munsky, a clumsy football player, in Alice Wu's coming-of-age film The Half of It (2020), a Netflix release that drew favorable reviews and took the Best Narrative Feature prize at the Tribeca Festival in 2020. He also plays Tyson, the title character's younger Cyclops half-brother, in Disney's Percy Jackson and the Olympians.