Biography

Jean-Luc McMurtry was born on Hilton Head Island, in South Carolina to Steven McMurtry a physician, and Lucie Sigouin a Canadian architect. He is of French, German and Scottish decent. Jean-Luc grew up an athlete, playing many sports including baseball, basketball and golf. When he was 11, he stumbled across his father's old Super 8 camera, tucked away in the attic. This was the beginning.

He began making short films with his friends, and acting in the plays and musicals at his high-school. He received a scholarship to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for Drama, in New York City and moved there in 2012. He has lived there since.

Jean-Luc landed his first professional film credit in 2013, playing the lead role in the feature film, "Curveball" also starring Lynn Whitfield and Rockmond Dunbar.

In 2019, he worked with critically acclaimed director Sam Mendes on stage in Park Avenue Armory's Off-Broadway production of "The Lehman Trilogy", starring Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles, and Adam Godley.

In 2022, he recurred alongside Juliette Binoche in the HBO Max mini-series The Staircase. The show is directed by Antonio Campos and stars Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Parker Posey, and Juliette Binoche among others.

He will appear in the upcoming film "The Idea of You" where he worked with Anne Hathaway and director Michael Showalter.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Atlanta, GA, USA: Shooting a feature film

Studying at NYU in the Meisner Studio through NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Founded Award-Winning VLV Media & Records Production Company and Recording Studio in 2020 in Brooklyn, NY.