Blake Lafita

Blake Lafita is a New York City based actor, artist, and musician born in Palm Harbor, FL. He is best known for playing Billy in the Cannes Emerging Filmmaker Festival-winning short, "All the Young Dudes". He also appears as Nick in "A Day in the Life", and most recently will be on screen at the LA premier of "Bridge to the Other Side" in which he is featured as Henry. In his first year of high school at Palm Harbor University High he was introduced to the prolific theatre program, and although baseball had been promising, and prosperous for 10 years, he chose to commit to acting as a life and career. In tandem he learned guitar, piano, and singing. His first roles were Gomez in "The Addams Family", and George in "Sunday in the Park With George" for which he went to the 2016 Jimmy Awards in New York. He then earned his BFA in Acting at Florida State University in the class of 2020. Musically, he plays as the drummer in the New York band, Matias & The Karma Collective.