Jase Whitaker, born as Jason C. Whitaker, is an American actor and writer who has a background in professional dance and as a model. He was born in Washington, D.C. He is known as much for his charisma as for his blue-collar work ethic and intensity, and is the son of two life-long academics--his father, a historian and part-time university professor, has a PhD in History and his mother, an archivist, has a Masters in Public Administration.
Jase got his first professional break as a dancer in American Ballet Theater's Giselle directly after finishing high school and later enrolled in Washington, D.C.'s famed Studio Theater Conservatory.
As a veteran of professional theater since the age of 18, Jase took the blessing of his university professors and left George Mason University (where he also wrote for the university paper and took graduate level History and Advanced Screenwriting courses as an Underclassman), a few credits short of a BFA to relocate to Los Angeles and focus on acting full time.
After a short stint in celebrity and fashion public relations, he fully invested in acting in 2011, when we gained recognition as a lead in the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival production 'Eavesdropper', in which he wowed audiences in his portrayal of an unstable gay man who's boyfriend has died of AIDS. This role soon led to small featured roles on shows such as Comedy Central's Key & Peele and Community, which soon led to a recurring role on the hit comedy series, Baby Daddy. As he uses this momentum to fill more demanding roles and create is own, original content, Jase is definitely someone to keep an eye out for.
