JayR later told Variety: "When you're an actor starting out and you have an agent telling you this, you want to listen because you want to make it and you want to work.
In 2009, he won his first television role performing a trapped student in two episodes of the Australian series Home and Away.
Between 2012 and 2015, JayR appeared in short films such as Simone Pietro Felice's The Life Again, Samuel Leighton-Dore's Showboy (in which he portrays a drag queen), and The Wake by Leigh Joel Scott.
In September 2018, JayR joined Katee Sackhoff, Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson and Elizabeth Ludlow in the American series Another Life, broadcast on Netflix.
[2] JayR also appears as Dr. Xyler in the second season of the Netflix series Space Force, which was released in February 2022.