Techne Films is pleased to announce that Jerry Winsett has been cast in the role of “Janus Kartupelis” in the upcoming feature film The Heisenberg Effect. Jerry began acting in college productions of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Anything Goes, and has since appeared in over 450 theatrical productions including 1776, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum, The Taming of the Shrew, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night,Dracula and many others. He starred as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Tennessee Shakespeare Festival, and off Broadway created the roles of Cot in The Smiling Assassins and Paul in Smoke, as well as The Rivals and Lorenzaccio.
His television credits include Newhart, It's Gary Shandling's Show, Mr. Belvedere, Coach, Life Goes On, Nickelodeon's The Snooker Report and The Inspectors. Many remember him from his scores of commercials (including the original "Time to Make the Donuts" for Dunkin Donuts).
Jerry appeared on the big screen in The Chosen, One Crazy Summer, Sunset Strip, Paulie, Bastard Out of Carolina, Torque, The Red Cape, Bolden and most recently in the Academy Award winning film Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Jerry received a “Best Ensemble” award from the Screen Actors Guild for that role and recently received the “Award for Excellence in Acting” at the Southern Shorts Awards for the role of Parsons in Four Episodes from 1984, directed by Marshall Peterson. Jerry is the lead in Long Drive to Yadkin, currently making the Festival circuit and will appear in 2020 in Drought and Remember Yesterday.
According to THE director Marshall Peterson, “We’re delighted to bring Jerry into the production. I’ve worked with him before, and he’s a great pleasure to have on set, as well as being a consummate professional. Also, he’s funny as hell.”
