This is an accepted version of this page Jesse Lee Soffer is an American actor and television director.
He is known for portraying Will Munson on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and received three Emmy nominations for his work on the show.
From 2024 to present, Jesse Lee Soffer plays Wesley "Wes" Mitchell, the new International Fly Team leader on the fourth season of CBS drama FBI: International, after the departure of Luke Kleintank who played Scott Forester.
[5][6] Soffer spent part of his childhood in Tarrytown, New York, and later moved to Newtown, Connecticut, at age 10.
[11] In 1993 aged eight, he made his feature film debut with John Goodman and Cathy Moriarty in the comedy Matinee.
[12] Continuing the pattern of working with Oscar-calibre and A-list talent, Soffer starred as a runaway-turned-sleuth Jamie Kincaid in the TV movie From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
In 1998, Soffer was cast as Taylor Donovan with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on the ABC sitcom Two of a Kind.
As of 2008, he was nominated three times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on ATWT as well as a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Lead Actor in 2005.
In 2007, Soffer returned to his film career and co-starred with Carly Schroeder in Davis Guggenheim's sports drama Gracie, based on a true story.
During his time on As the World Turns, he was cast in an episode of Dick Wolf's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Since then, he has guest-starred on a number of television series including CSI: Miami, The Mentalist and Rizzoli & Isles.
[14][15] Later that year, he co-starred as Travis Alexander in Lifetime's original movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.