Connor William Jessup, born in Toronto, Canada, is a versatile actor and director. He began his acting career at the age of eleven, gaining recognition for his roles as Ben Mason in the science fiction series Falling Skies (2011) and Taylor Blaine in the drama American Crime (2015). Jessup is also widely known for his lead role as Tyler Locke in the Netflix fantasy series Locke & Key (2020–2022), in which he appeared in all three seasons.

His directing career began in 2014 with the short film Little Coffins, which is now considered lost material. He then directed several other short films, including Boy (2015), Lyra's Forest (2017), Constant (2018), and the documentary A. V. Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018). In 2019, Jessup took part in the project 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing, directing one of the 30 short films. He also directed Night Flight (2020), an adaptation of a story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and most recently the sleepwalking drama Julian and the Wind (2024).

In addition to his work in film and television, Jessup advocates for the queer community and publicly came out as gay in June 2019 during Pride Month.