Percy Hynes White has been acting since the tender age of two, commencing his acting career with performances in short films in and around his hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. By the age of nine, he had already taken on the lead role in "Winners," and soon after, he was selected for leading roles in other short films, including "The Confessional" and "Little Man."
Percy's breakthrough performance came when he was featured in Don McKellar's "The Grand Seduction," which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, he has starred in a wide range of films, including "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.
Percy Hynes White also had the lead role in "Edge of Winter," opposite Joel Kinnaman and Tom Holland, and "Cast No Shadow," which earned him the Best Actor award at the 2014 Atlantic Film Festival and the Rising Star Award at the 2014 Edmonton International Film Festival. He played a supporting lead in "I Like Movies," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022 and earned him a Best Supporting Actor Award from The Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
Among his current projects are "My Old Ass," directed by celebrated director Megan Park for Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap, and "Winter Spring Summer Fall," where he plays the lead role opposite his "Wednesday" series co-star Jenna Ortega.
Select television credits include two seasons as a 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.
Percy Hynes White also played a series regular role on "Pretty Hard Cases" for CBC. Most notably, he stars as Xavier Thorpe in "Wednesday," produced by Tim Burton for Netflix. Percy Hynes White is based in both Los Angeles and Toronto.
