Jeff Roop

Jeff Roop is an actor from Montreal, Canada. He took acting classes while studying finance at McGill University and acted in college and local plays before training at the Moscow Art Theatre and Carnegie Mellon University. After theater school, his first professional television part came on The Guiding Light, followed by his first feature film role in Free Money, with Marlon Brando. He founded Montreal's Arbat Theatre Company, which staged The Glass Menagerie and This Is Our Youth. He starred as Drew in the syndicated series Vampire High and portrayed Frank Mahovlich in CBC's Canada-Russia 72. Other credits include the ESPN feature Codebreakers with Scott Glenn, the Lifetime film Widow on the Hill (2005) with James Brolin, and NBC's Critical Assembly with Katherine Heigl. He starred in Backcountry (2015), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and became one of IFC's top grossing films of that year. He co-wrote, produced, and starred in the pilot Prairie Dogs.