By Scot Bowlen Ketchikan Daily News Staff Writer   Yes, that young man being fed a burger by supermodel Heidi Klum on television is Jesse LeBeau.  The 2005 Kayhi graduate co-stars with Klum in a Carl’s Jr. commercial that sends up the famed Mrs. Robinson seduction scene from the 1967 film “The Graduate.” In [...]

If you’ve watched the Carl’s Jr. commercial with Heidi Klum, you’ve seen Jesse LeBeau. The ad is a take-off of  The Graduate. Jesse plays Benjamin, Dustin Hoffman’s character in the movie. We met Jesse at a conference and loved his story – how a small town boy is turning his love of basketball into a Hollywood [...]

  Jesse LeBeau couldn’t have imagined acting in a TV commercial opposite supermodel Heidi Klum while he religiously honed his basketball skills as a kid in Ketchikan. But that’s the latest twist in his story of streetballer-turned-actor. LeBeau’s latest commercial role is a take-off on the one played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 movie [...]

From Hoop Shoot to Hollywood In coastal Alaska, where it is cold, dark and rainy most of the year, basketball is king. Residents pack into local gymnasiums, shedding their coats and boots to wrap up in spirit of the game. For Alaska native and Hoop Shoot alum Jesse LeBeau, the gymnasium provided a safe haven [...]