Jonas Chernick

Jonas Chernick is an actor and screenwriter who collaborated on the screenplay for Inertia (2001) and played its lead; that film took Best First Canadian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he received the Blizzard Award for Best Leading Actor. He also co-wrote and starred in Lucid (2005), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the City TV prize for Best Western Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival. On television, he played Slade on CBC's The Border, earning a 2008 Gemini Award and a 2009 ACTRA Award nomination, and he had recurring roles on Living in Your Car and Degrassi: The Next Generation. He wrote, produced and starred in My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012), which took audience and people's choice prizes at the Whistler and Calgary festivals, made the Toronto International Film Festival's Top Ten Films of 2012, and brought a 2013 ACTRA Award nomination.