Hessel Evelaar

Hessel Jacob Evelaar was born in The Netherlands to Henk Evelaar and Jacqueline Evelaar. He started acting in regional theatre at a very young age, and made it television debut in 2006 in the children's television show Willem Wever. Due to the economic recession in The Netherlands, Hessel moved with his family to the city state Singapore, where we was scouted by the commercial modeling agency IModels and shot print work for Sony-Ericsson and starred in national commercials. Hessel never stopped doing theatre, and starred in multiple regional plays. When he graduated from the International Baccalaureate in Singapore, Hessel moved back to the Netherlands to study Business Administration at the Free University of Amsterdam, but knowing his heart wasn't in business, he moved quickly to Los Angeles to study acting full time at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Hessel has since starred in a multitude of short films, commercials, and had his American theatre debut in LAPC's production of For This Moment Alone by Marcia Kash.