Adam Butcher

Adam Butcher (born October 20, 1988) is a Canadian film actor who starred as a teenage long-distance runner in Saint Ralph (2004).

Born in Cambridge, Ontario, Butcher has an older sister, actress Mandy Butcher. Butcher started acting at the age of nine when his aunt (a talent agent) and uncle (a stuntman/coordinator) suggested that Butcher and his sister Mandy get their head-shots taken.

His most current roles were guest appearances on the Disney Original show Life with Derek in the episode "Show-Off-Tune", originally aired August 11, 2007, the episode "Allergy Season", originally aired June 16, 2008, and the episode "Just Friends," appearing as the character of Noel. In 2009 in appeared in Flashpoint in the episode "The Farm". He portrayed the main character in the 2010 film Dog Pound.

Butcher has also appeared in an episode of Falling Skies, a 2011 alien invasion TV series produced by Steven Spielberg and in three Republic of Doyle episodes as a boy named Dylan. In 2014, he appeared in the Rookie Blue Season 5 Episode 1 "Blink" as well as the web series Long Story, Short opposite Katie Boland.

He has been starring as Officer Jesse Calvert in the Canadian television show Played since 2013 and also appeared in the 2014 movie, Debug which was written and directed by British-born Canadian actor David Hewlett. He also was the star of the movie Saint Ralph.

He was nominated for a Genie Award in 2006.