Nelson Leis

Nelson Heino Leis is an actor and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. Nelson can be seen in Prey (2022), 20th Century Studios' Predator origin story. In 2023 he will be appearing in HBO's The Last of Us (2023) and FX's Shogun (2023), both highly anticipated series. Nelson was born in Kemptville, Ontario to a French mother and Estonian father, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. The acting spark was ignited when Leis became involved in high school and community theater, eventually leading him to move to New York City and study at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After theatre school he returned to Vancouver and spent a year as part of an education-based theatre tour aimed at high school kids, with the focus of creating awareness around sexual exploitation of youth. Nelson helped write this project, which continues to run in British Columbia schools more than 25 years later. As a writer, Leis co-created the web series The Jim (2010) which won multiple awards at the 2011 L.