Blake Jenner
Blake Jenner was born in Miami, Florida, United States on August 27th, 1992 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 32, Blake Jenner biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Blake Alexander Jenner (born August 27, 1992) is an American actor and singer.
Jenner appeared on Oxygen's The Glee Project in second season and, as a result, portrayed Ryder Lynn on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.
Since being a child actor and support actor in Everybody Wants Some!! The Edge of Seventeen (2016), American Animals (2018), and What/If (2019).
Early life
Jenner was born and raised in Miami, Florida, as the son of Mitzy and Richard Vernon Jenner. His mother is of Cuban descent, and her family is from Santiago de Cuba. Mike, Derrick, and Richard, the youngest of four sons, have three elder brothers.
He became interested in music and film and started playing drums at the age of nine. He attended Felix Varela High School, where he was a member of Troupe 6162 and competed in varsity football and wrestling. He began improvisation lessons and appeared in stage productions at the Roxy Performing Arts Center, claiming that he was "in love with improv and comedies." He became a member of "Impromedy," a sketch comedy improv troupe headquartered in Miami in 2008.
Personal life
Jenner proposed to Melissa Benoist, his former Glee co-star, in 2013 and the pair reportedly married in 2015. However, Benoist said that they had been married "longer than anyone knows," in the case of a 2013 marriage, according to some sources. In late December 2016, Benoist applied for divorce, citing irreconcilable inconsistencies, and the split was finalized in December 2017.
Benoist wrote an Instagram video chronicling her struggle as a victim of domestic violence survivors. Benoist suffered an accident in 2015 that shattered her iris and left her pupil permanently enlarged. In a video, she explained that the injury to her iris was due to a phone being thrown at her during a domestic conflict in a relationship marked by repeated abuse. At the time, Jenner and Benoist were married. During the time, Benoist said she had experienced extreme control, manipulation, and cycles of brutality, including being slapped, kicked, pulled by her hair, and choked. Jenner replied on Instagram in October 2020, confessing to causing the eye injury and confirming the abuse had occurred throughout the relationship. He also said that the abuse during their relationship had been mutual and that she had physically attacked him throughout their friendship, resulting in injury. Benoist had previously stated in her original Instagram video that she had started fighting back in defense of Jenner's allegations during their friendship.
Career
Eager to pursue a career in acting, Jenner left Miami and moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school a year early, with just $2,500. While residing in California, he took on many jobs including a waiter, clothing store associate, and parrot salesman while auditioning for acting roles. He continually attended improv classes at The Groundlings, and eventually did a guest show with that company two years later. By 2011, he was cast in the short films Wurlitzer and The Truth In Being Right and the horror film Cousin Sarah. He also made a guest appearance on ABC Family's sitcom Melissa & Joey as Miller Collins.
In 2012, he was selected through industry channels to audition as one of 15 contestants on the second season of The Glee Project, a television reality show for which the prize was a guaranteed seven-episode arc on the following season of Glee. He was one of three finalists and ultimately won. After appearing as Ryder Lynn on the fourth season of Glee, he was later nominated and won the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star. Jenner, along with co-stars Jacob Artist, Becca Tobin, Alex Newell, and Melissa Benoist, was promoted to series regular status for the fifth season.
In the summer of 2013, Jenner wrote the screenplay for Billy Boy. He and Benoist went on Kickstarter to ask fans to help fund the project's production; as of December 11, 2013, the project has reached its $100,000 goal. Jenner was subsequently cast in the horror film Within. In late 2015, Jenner was cast in a recurring role as Adam Foster on Supergirl, playing opposite his then-wife Melissa Benoist, who stars as the series' title character. His first appearance aired on January 25, 2016.
In 2016, Jenner starred as Jake Bradford in Richard Linklater's comedy film Everybody Wants Some!!, which was released on March 30, and played Hailee Steinfeld's character's brother in the coming-of-age drama The Edge of Seventeen. He was in the cast of Shawn Christensen's drama film The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in 2018. He was in the cast of Bart Layton's crime drama film American Animals. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released in June 2018, by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures. Jenner played Christian de Neuvillette in the Goodspeed Musical production's Cyrano at the Norma Terris Theatre in August and September 2018.
Jenner played Sean in What/If, Netflix's 2019 anthology neo-noir thriller series. In August 2019, it was announced that Jenner would star in Richard Linklater's film adaptation of Merrily We Roll Along, which would be shot over the course of twenty years. Principal photography of the first section of the film has already been completed. Jenner is set to star alongside Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt.