Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie: From Quebec Cinema to Sterling Point -

Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie is a Canadian actor from Quebec who gained wider English-language attention as Ellis in the 2026 Prime Video series Sterling Point. Long before that role, however, he had built a substantial career in French-language film and television. He made his screen debut as a teenager in A Colony (Une colonie), earning a Canadian Screen Award nomination, and later appeared in projects including Falcon Lake, Bootlegger, Eaux turbulentes and the hockey series First Line (Premier trio).

Whiteduck-Lavoie is a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation and grew up partly on the Kitigan Zibi reserve in Quebec. His move into Sterling Point represents a significant expansion of an acting career that began in Quebec cinema.

Bio

Profile Detail	Verified Information
Full Name	Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie
Profession	Actor
Nationality	Canadian
From	Quebec, Canada
Indigenous Community	Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation
Age Group	18–24, according to his professional agency
Height	5 ft 8 in / 1.74 m
Hair Colour	Brown
Eye Colour	Brown
Languages	French and English
Known For	Sterling Point, First Line (Premier trio), A Colony (Une colonie)
Sterling Point Role	Ellis
First Line Role	Xavier
A Colony Role	Jimmy
Other Screen Credits	Falcon Lake, Bootlegger, Eaux turbulentes, Billie Blue
Career Recognition	Canadian Screen Award nomination for A Colony
Professional Representation	Agence Duchesne & Associées

Who Is Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie?

Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie is a Canadian film and television actor who has worked professionally since his teens. He grew up in Quebec and has described spending part of his childhood on the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg reserve, near Maniwaki.

His Indigenous background is not an inference based on his roles: Whiteduck-Lavoie has discussed it himself in interviews, and the Toronto International Film Festival has identified him as a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation.

Growing up, language was also an important part of his environment. Whiteduck-Lavoie has explained that his mother primarily spoke English and his father primarily spoke French. He was trilingual as a young child and attended preschool on the reserve, where he spoke Algonquin, although he later lost much of the language after attending French-language school and moving away.

In an interview with 1883 Magazine, he said that being able to work in both French and English helped open professional opportunities within Quebec’s film industry.

His professional agency currently lists French and English as his spoken languages and gives his height as 5 feet 8 inches (1.74 metres). Reliable sources do not provide sufficient current information to responsibly state that he is married, has a partner or has children, so those aspects of his private life should not be treated as established facts.

Growing Up in Quebec

Whiteduck-Lavoie has described a childhood closely connected to rural Quebec.

He spent his early years around lakes in the Maniwaki and Kitigan Zibi area. In later childhood, he moved closer to Montreal and completed high school there before moving to Montreal for college.

Those surroundings eventually created an unexpected connection between his own experiences and his Sterling Point character, Ellis. The Prime Video series takes place around a fictional island in Ontario’s Muskoka region, while Whiteduck-Lavoie himself had grown up around lakes.

The similarities became apparent when he first read the character description during the audition process. But his upbringing is significant independently of Sterling Point: it also provides context for a Canadian acting career that developed first through Quebec’s predominantly French-language screen industry.

Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie Made His Debut in A Colony

Whiteduck-Lavoie’s first major film role came in Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ 2018 feature Une colonie, released internationally as A Colony.

The coming-of-age drama follows Mylia, played by Émilie Bierre, as she navigates the difficulties of starting high school and developing her sense of identity. Whiteduck-Lavoie played Jimmy, a teenager from a neighbouring Indigenous community who becomes an important figure in Mylia’s life.

The performance brought significant recognition early in his career. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s official awards record lists Whiteduck-Lavoie as a 2019 Canadian Screen Awards nominee for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for A Colony.

He was still in his teens when the film established him as a professional screen actor.

The project also began a career in which Indigenous characters and stories have occasionally appeared alongside roles with no comparable cultural focus. Importantly, those fictional characters should not be treated as interchangeable with Whiteduck-Lavoie’s own background.

Building a French-Language Screen Career

Rather than immediately moving into English-language Hollywood or international productions, Whiteduck-Lavoie continued working primarily in Quebec.

His subsequent credits included television and film projects such as District 31, Eaux turbulentes, Bootlegger and Falcon Lake.

Caroline Monnet’s Bootlegger, released in 2021, is particularly relevant within that filmography. Whiteduck-Lavoie played Paul in the drama, which explores political and community tensions surrounding an Indigenous community in Quebec.

He later appeared as Jackson in Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake. The 2022 coming-of-age drama was Le Bon’s feature directorial debut and expanded Whiteduck-Lavoie’s experience in Quebec cinema.

Other projects followed, including the film Billie Blue and further television work.

His career during this period demonstrates why describing Sterling Point as his acting debut would be inaccurate. It brought him to a new audience, but he already had years of professional experience before joining the Prime Video production.

First Line and the Role of Xavier

A particularly important pre-Sterling Point role was Xavier in the Quebec youth series Premier trio, known in English as First Line.

The series revolves around young hockey players and the pressures, relationships and challenges surrounding competitive sport. Whiteduck-Lavoie played Xavier, a team captain.

The production was significant to him professionally as well as socially. In interviews, he has recalled being around 19 when the first season was filmed and developing lasting friendships with actors close to his own age.

He has also described First Line as a project he remains proud of.

The role further established him as a leading young performer in French-language television. It also involved a romantic storyline, making it inaccurate to describe Ellis in Sterling Point as his first experience playing a romantic character. The major difference was language and audience: Sterling Point placed him in a considerably larger English-language streaming production.

Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie in Sterling Point

The biggest international step in Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie’s career came with Sterling Point, which premiered on Prime Video in August 2026.

The series follows Annie Jacobson, played by Ella Rubin, after she discovers that she and her twin brother Connor have inherited an island in Canada’s Muskoka region from their estranged grandfather. Annie’s arrival draws her into unresolved family history as well as new relationships on the island.

Whiteduck-Lavoie plays Ellis, a local who works around the marina and becomes closely connected to Annie.

Prime Video’s official Sterling Point series page lists Whiteduck-Lavoie alongside a cast that includes Rubin, Amélie Hoeferle, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Bo Bragason, Keen Ruffalo, Missi Pyle, Jay Duplass and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The first season consists of eight episodes.

For Whiteduck-Lavoie, landing Ellis represented a substantial shift. He told People in August 2026 that it was his biggest role up to that point and only his second English-speaking role.

His route into the production moved quickly. After receiving the audition, he submitted a self-tape and was soon flown to Toronto for a chemistry test with Rubin. He was the final member of the principal young ensemble to be cast.

The character also felt unusually familiar to him. Ellis was described as a quiet young man from Quebec who had grown up around a lake, details that overlapped with elements of Whiteduck-Lavoie’s own upbringing.

That overlap should not be taken to mean that actor and character are the same person. Whiteduck-Lavoie has instead explained that the similarities gave him a useful point of connection when approaching Ellis.

Working in English

Sterling Point also marked a notable change in the language of Whiteduck-Lavoie’s work.

His early professional résumé was dominated by French-language productions because he was working in Quebec. Although he grew up speaking both French and English, English-language auditions were less common for him.

That makes Sterling Point more than simply another television credit. It introduced an actor already established in one part of the Canadian entertainment industry to a much broader English-speaking audience.

His bilingual background helped make that transition possible. Whiteduck-Lavoie has said that growing up speaking French and English opened doors professionally, while moving between different communities as a child also meant regularly adapting to new environments.

Recognition Beyond Quebec

The attention surrounding Sterling Point has changed the scale of public interest in Whiteduck-Lavoie, but his professional record stretches back to A Colony and years of Canadian film and television work.

That distinction matters for viewers discovering him through Prime Video. His performance as Ellis is not the beginning of his career but a new phase of it.

His earlier work includes independent cinema, Indigenous-focused filmmaking, French-language television, youth drama and internationally recognised Quebec films. Sterling Point adds mainstream English-language streaming drama to that list.

Whiteduck-Lavoie’s career therefore offers a clearer picture when viewed chronologically: a teenage film debut, awards recognition for A Colony, years of work in Quebec productions, a leading part in First Line, and eventually a major English-language role.

As of 2026, Sterling Point is his most prominent international television credit, while his earlier performances remain essential to understanding how Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie reached that point.