Blake Lafita

Blake Lafita is a Cuban-American actor, artist, and musician born in Palm Harbor, FL, and based in Los Angeles. He is best known for playing Billy in the Cannes Emerging Filmmaker Festival-winning short, "All the Young Dudes". He appears as Henry in "Bridge to the Other Side", and Nick in "A Day in the Life". In high school at Palm Harbor University High he was introduced to the theatre program, and although he had been playing baseball for 10 years he chose to commit to acting. His first roles were Gomez in "The Addams Family", and George in "Sunday in the Park With George" for which he went to the 2016 Jimmy Awards in New York. He then earned his BFA in Acting at Florida State University in the class of 2020. He is a multi-instrumentalist with music released under his name, and played as the drummer in the New York band, Karma Collective.