---
name: "Jake Shears"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jake-shears"
fi1m_id: "jake-shears"
imdb_id: "nm0783283"
tmdb_id: 1024242
wikidata_id: "Q460908"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 October 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T04:10:17.880150+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jake Shears

## Identity

Jake Shears

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jake-shears
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jake-shears
- **IMDb ID:** nm0783283
- **TMDB ID:** 1024242
- **Wikidata ID:** Q460908
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Shears, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460908, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783283/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1024242

Actor. Born 3 October 1978 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 October 1978, Mesa, Arizona, USA
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Also known as:** Jason Sellards
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Shears, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460908, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783283/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1024242

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Pillion*](https://film.one/film/pillion.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jake Shears, also credited as Jason Sellards, is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is the lead vocalist of the band Scissor Sisters.

Shears made his feature film debut as Kevin in *Pillion* (2025). He appeared as the MC Drag Queen in *Rocketman* (2019). His stage credits include the Broadway production of *Kinky Boots* and the West End revival of *Cabaret* (2023). He is scheduled to play Frank-N-Furter in the Broadway revival of *The Rocky Horror Show*.

He has also hosted the podcast *Queer the Music* and co-wrote songs for the musical *Tammy Faye* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, attitude.co.uk, deadline.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Pillion* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Kevin — [page](https://film.one/film/pillion.md)
- *Rocketman* (2019), Fi1m 78, as MC Drag Queen — [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pillion* (2025), as Kevin — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/pillion.md)
- *Sophie Ellis-Bextor's New Year's Eve Disco* (2024), Actor
- *Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, The Musical* (2021), Writer, Music, Lyricist
- *The Art of Being* (2019), Actor
- *Rocketman* (2019), as MC Drag Queen — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md)
- *Johnny* (2016), Associate Producer
- *I Am Michael* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Scissor Sisters: Live at the O2, London* (2007), Actor
- *Tinderbox*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Jake Shears](https://film.one/media/person/693150/gallery-ff5e0ef6ff8f.jpg) Jake Shears — Steven Anthony Hammock, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Jake_Shears_of_the_Scissor_Sisters.jpg/1280px-Jake_Shears_of_the_Scissor_Sisters.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jake Shears and Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performing in 210 at the Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/693150/gallery-0a73a00ed398.jpg) Jake Shears and Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performing in 210 at the Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. (2010) — Tokyo JapanTimes from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Scissor_Sisters_-Fuji_Rock_Festival%2C_Japan-31July2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Captured photo at the Rave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA In January 2005.](https://film.one/media/person/693150/gallery-48e058a152b5.jpg) Captured photo at the Rave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA In January 2005. — Cynthia18, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Cool_blue.jpg/1280px-Cool_blue.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jake Shears bares his heart and wears Mary on his 'sleeve' at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, 3/1/07. (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/693150/gallery-df9dff17bd1c.jpg) Jake Shears bares his heart and wears Mary on his 'sleeve' at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, 3/1/07. (2007) — Ames, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Jake_Shears_tixgirl.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jake Shears](https://film.one/media/person/693150/gallery-b8d03c163820.jpg) Jake Shears — Image via TMDB

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