Eldon Thiele

Birth Name: Jason Willis Betts

New Brunswick actor Eldon Thiele began his professional acting career as a teenager, after winning the Theatre New Brunswick Mardi Cockburn Award for Performer Demonstrating the Most Professional Pote ...Show More

New Brunswick actor Eldon Thiele began his professional acting career as a teenager, after winning the Theatre New Brunswick Mardi Cockburn Award for Performer Demonstrating the Most Professional Potential at the 1995 New Brunswick Drama Festival. He then went on to win the Moonsnail Award for Best Male Actor at the 1997 Atlantic Film Festival for his role as a pickpocket in "Terminal Lunch". This role also earned him a nomination for Best Actor at the 1998 Yorkton Film Festival. In 2000, he appeared alongside Oscar-nominated actress Kate Nelligan in CTV's "Blessed Stranger- After Flight 111", turning out a performance which landed him representation with a top-notch agency in Toronto. He then lived in Toronto for 6 years, where he worked steadily in film and television, appearing on such television shows at "University", and "Queer As Folk". He returned to his native province in 2006 to focus on his music career, completing 6 CD releases to-date, the 2 most recent releases earning him several nominations at the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Music New Brunswick Awards. His one-man band ZWERG also released 3 music videos, one of which aired several times on MuchMoreMusic. He returned to television in 2009, with an appearance on Showtime's "G-Spot". He was nominated for Best Actor at the 2011 Silver Wave Film Festival, for his lead role in the indie film "Maybe Tomorrow". He recently completed shooting the role of high-class hustler "Ben" in the upcoming Thom Fitzgerald series "Sex and Violence", starring Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis. Hide