Bio

Percy Hynes White has been acting since the age of two, starting with performances in various short films in and around his hometown of St John’s, Newfoundland.

At nine years old, he was featured in the lead of the short film “Winners,” after which he went on to play leading roles in other shorts, such as “The Confessional” and “Little Man.” He also appeared in Don McKellar’s “The Grand Seduction,” which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Percy’s feature film credits include “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”; “Our House” opposite Thomas Mann and Nicola Peltz; “Milton’s Secret,” with Donald Sutherland; and “Rupture,” opposite Noomi Rapace. He also was the lead in “Edge of Winter,” opposite Joel Kinnaman and Tom Holland.

The feature film “Cast No Shadow,” in which Percy played the lead role, earned him two awards – Best Actor at the 2014 Atlantic Film Festival and the Rising Star Award at the 2014 Edmonton International Film Festival. Percy played a supporting lead on “I Like Movies” which premiered at TIFF 2022, and earned him a Best Supporting Actor Award from The Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Percy will be seen next in “My Old Ass” by celebrated director Megan Park for Margot Robbie’s production company LuckyChap. Most recently he wrapped a lead role in “Winter Spring Summer Fall” opposite his “Wednesday” co-star Jenna Ortega.

Select television credits include two seasons as series regular on “The Gifted” for FOX, a spin-off series in the universe of Marvel’s X-Men opposite Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, and Natalie Alyn Lind, a role on Jordan Peele’s reboot of the cult classic “The Twilight Zone” for CBS: All Access, “The Transplant” for NBCUniversal, two seasons on “Between” for Netflix, and the limited series “11.22.63” for Hulu starring James Franco.

He also plays a series regular role on “Pretty Hard Cases” for CBC. Most notably, Percy stars as Xavier Thorpe in the smash hit series “Wednesday” by Tim Burton for Netflix.

Percy is based in Los Angeles and Toronto.