Jacob Cormier

Lowell's next great rambler grew up behind the cemetery of Jack Kerouac and wound up wandering his way across 39 states and 8 countries on his road to Los Angeles. There he chases acting dreams of making funny faces like Jim Carrey and action stunt sequences like Jackie Chan. Saturdays when he is not on set he is proudly hosting weekly parkour training events for the local Los Angeles parkour community. Jacob was born on the coldest day of the year in Lowell, Massachusetts on February 10th, 1992. He is the eldest of 3 children born to David and Karin Cormier and has been voted the funniest sibling by a two-thirds majority. His ancestry is French-Canadian, Irish and English. At 10 months of age Jacob couldn't resist his calling to the stunt industry and tumbled down his first staircase - right into the hospital. Before long he was speaking full sentences and rapidly consuming stories from Saturday morning cartoons and VHS tapes when not outside climbing trees. Cormier learned very young that the more accurately he could quote films, the better response he would get from friends and family. Karin was adamant that the kids attend Catholic school which meant Jacob performed onstage as early as 2 and had 10 years of singing training. Though academically he was always one of the top students, Jacob really cared more about making people laugh or asking difficult questions. His parents would often joke that he was '6 going on 45' and his first time getting in trouble at school was for correcting his kindergarten teacher on the pronunciation of the dinosaurs - Diplodocus and Parasaurolophus. For several years after seeing Liar Liar, he thought he wanted to be a lawyer, but it wasn't until he found high school theater that he realized he had always wanted to be an actor. In 2006, the Cormier clan would relocate to Clearwater, Florida where Jacob began his formative years in theatrical training and stagecraft. Jacob would develop a knack for physical comedy and comedic timing, often playing characters with multiple personalities or funny disguises. After serving his 4 year sentence in Florida he attended college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey from 2010 to 2013. Before college he knew how to make people laugh, but it was not until FDU classes that Jacob truly understood the craft of acting. In 2012 he would study abroad in England where he studied Shakespearean literature and wrote a play in iambic pentameter. That summer when the next season of plays was announced he read one of them 5 times in the library until he was fully memorized for the role. That play was Henry's Law, an original by Stacie Lents about a young man's struggle with sexual identity and eventual suicide and Jacob would play the role of Max in its first professional run at local schools in New Jersey and Mile Square Theater in Hoboken. The following semester would be his last and it started off with the death of Richard Turick, the Head of the Theater Department and a role model to Jacob. He had given him his first job teaching Stagecraft and reminded him to get back to work when his head was stuck in the clouds. A combination of AP Classes and force of will allowed Jacob to graduate early that year Cum Laude before making his way to Los Angeles. Cormier landed in LA the first time around in 2013 and within 2 years had received paid work in Theater, Film and Television at the Non-Union Level. His performances in Tallow (2015) and Room 205 (2016) earned best Horror and Action Film Awards respectively and his performance in Tallow would be nominated for Best Actor. After a few years in LA he left to recharge and travel the country doing parkour, even going as far as South Africa to film a documentary for the water relief efforts there. Upon paying off his credit card debt he has returned to the city of angels and is ready to get back to acting - this time with less hair and more determination than ever before.