Chad Willett
Chad Willett is a Canadian actor and producer who has worked for over 20 years as a professional in film, television and theatre. His films include Hector and the Search for Happiness, starring Simon Pegg, and Monster Trucks directed by Chris Wedge.
Willett produced and starred in the film Becoming Redwood in 2011. The film won the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular Canadian Film Award. In 2010, Willett received a Leo Award for his portrayal of the small town redneck antagonist in the film Cole, directed by Carl Bessai.
Alive, directed by Frank Marshall and produced by Kathleen Kennedy, was his first Hollywood movie. In the CBS miniseries, Joan of Arc, Willett starred alongside Leelee Sobieski, Peter O’Toole, and Shirley MacLaine. In the CBS event movie, The Locket, he worked with Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, as a young man caring for an aging lady in a nursing home.
Other notable television credits include series regular roles on The Chronicle, Jack & Jill, Charmed, Madison, and guest appearances on House M.D., Bones, NCIS, Human Target, The Secret Circle, Supernatural.
Willett's theatre credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Proof, at the Cleveland Play House and As Bees in Honey Drown, at the Pasadena Playhouse, the California state theatre.Select filmography
- Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
- Joan of Arc
- Cole
- For Christ's Sake
- Hector and the Search for Happiness
- Monster Trucks
- Love & Oatmeal
- Broken Diamonds