Peterborough's Sebastian Deery IMGUR Posts Go Viral About Being D-List Actor

image via @sebastianjdeery

A little known actor from Peterborough is now well known around the world.

Sebastian Deery, 27, gained overnight internet fame after amassing more than a million views from posts on the popular visual storytelling website Imgur.com. His posts were a self-deprecating series about what it's like to be an "unknown" in the acting world.
 
His original anonymous post, entitled “Actor Problems”, gained hundreds of thousands of views, as did a subsequent post.

The posts poked fun at the unreasonable demands made of actors, often at short notice (see samples below).

via Imgur.com

via Imgur.com

Sebastian then posted a reveal of his name due to popular demand—he says he had no particular reason for being anonymous in the first place—and that post has received nearly 500,000 views.

Sebastian has tweeted about the overwhelming attention he's now getting from around the world, which has ranged from marriage proposals to industry advice...

You can find out more about Sebastian Deery on IMDB.

And Sebastian, well played. Very well played.

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