A diverse and varied path.
Jacob Lefton is an actor, writer, and artist originally from Boston, Massachusetts, now living in Berlin, Germany.
For his whole life he has been performing or involved in the performing arts. He has acted on stage and in film, performed with traveling circuses, designed sets and written scripts. He has had a varied and diverse professional life: He was a gymnastics teacher, then ran his own artistic blacksmithing workshop for six years. He has worked as a peacebuilder to help people overcome conflict, and built software tools for data science.
Since moving to Berlin in 2016, he has devoted himself more deeply to acting.