Heated Rivalry Star Connor Storrie’s Movie and TV Roles

Connor Storrie is not your typical Saturday Night Live Host.

Just one week after his twenty sixth birthday, the Heated Rivalry star has arrived in Studio 8H to flex a complete new facet of his performing skills. He shot to fame with a single main function underneath his belt, within the first season of a Canadian TV present that premiered in November 2025. It’s additionally most undoubtedly not a comedy, though his character has his moments.

In case you are unfamiliar with the hockey phenomenon, Heated Rivalry follows the tumultuous, years-long romance between hockey rivals Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) of Canada and Ilya Rozanov (Storrie) of Russia. The attractive, romantic present has taken the world by storm, main Storrie to host SNL only a few months into folks figuring out his title.

Ahead of his February 28 SNL debut, here is what to learn about Connor Storrie‘s blossoming profession.

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Connor Storrie performed an vital function in Joker: Folie à Deux

While Storrie has appeared in a handful of shorts and indie films corresponding to 2025’s April Xhis most high-profile pre-Heated Rivalry function was in Joker: Folie à Deux. The musical follow-up to 2019’s joker starred Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as Joker and Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel. There was singing, dancing, romancing, and Storrie taking part in a moody younger inmate at Arkham Asylum.

As he later revealed, what Story till he began filming was that his character was truly pivotal. Spoiler alert for Joker: Folie à Deux: At the top of the movie, he stabs the man we thought was Joker and implies that he’s, in truth, the actual Joker. I’ve less than four minutes of display time, and the film ends with him carving up his face within the background as Phoenix’s character dies.

In a 2024 interviewStorrie mentioned that he despatched in a single self tape and then the half was given. He confirmed as much as set with no script, and simply earlier than filming, director Todd Phillips pulled him apart.

“He’s like, ‘Oh, by the way, I wanted to tell you what you’re doing for this whole thing. You kill Arthur at the end of it…and it’s kind of revealed that you’re the real Joker of this universe.’ And I was just like, ‘What?'” Storrie mentioned. “And he was so nonchalant about it too.”

He was advised to not inform anybody, he was given no course for the character, and was solely ever given script pages for his scenes, all primarily based on one self-tape.

Connor Storrie proved he is all the time been a star in childhood YouTube movies

Storrie’s performing resume is pretty brief; he was working full-time as a server when he was solid on Heated Rivalry. But he was additionally learning performing and comedy on the facet, taking lessons at The Groundlings and performing in Los Angeles’ underground “clown scene,” to cite a profile in Cultured Magazine.

As a child within the early 2010s, he additionally did what many children had been doing on the time: importing movies to YouTube. In one viral cliphe is merely making an attempt to determine what Katy Perry was speaking about within the lyrics of “Firework.”

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?” I’ve recited “I really don’t.”

In another videoa 12-year-old Storrie makes his finest impression of “what drunk people do at home,” together with the road, “So first of all, I’m really hungry.” Nailed it.

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See what else Storrie’s acquired up his sleeve when he takes the stage on February 28 with Musical Guest Mumford & Sons. Forget the cottage — we’re coming to Studio 8H.