This holiday season, actor and musician George Krissa is marking a historic moment for Hallmark and Holiday movies. Yes, it’s The Holiday Sitter we speak of.
The George Krissa-starrer new Hallmark Channel movie that premiered on 11 December 2022 marks the first time ever that the network has a same-sex couple at the center of its story. So, while Hallmark celebrates its milestone achievement with its first LGBTQ+ film, let us tell you all the lesser-known facts about George, his age, married life, height, net worth, and more.
George Krissa On The Holiday Sitter
The Holiday Sitter is a story about George Krissa’s character Jason DeVito and Jonathan Bennett’s Sam Dalton. Bennett is a proud bachelor working as, like, a wealth consultant for top-tier clients. Sam, gets an offer he can not turn down. His sister Kathleen (Chelsea Hobbs) and her husband Nate (Matthew James Dowden) have to hit the road because the baby they are adopting is arriving earlier than expected. The rest of their kids Kathleen and Nate are therefore left in the care of Bennett. And so he also meets Jason DeVito, his sister’s handsome, single, and gay neighbor.
While promoting the film afterward, George shared that he had a wonderful time making the film. A big Christmas fan himself, he raved that he felt honored to be able to be part of the Hallmark movie tradition.
The Holiday Sitter was his second time doing a Hallmark film, as he previously appeared in Road Trip Romance earlier in 2022.
He said he will never forget when the moment when he first put on the Hallmark uniform. The khakis, the plaid shirt, and the cardigan, he thought about how it felt so like him.
How Much Is George Krissa Net Worth
George Krissa is a relatively new talent in Hollywood. Yet, he has appeared in several television including The CW’s Coroner and CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries. He also portrayed several starring roles on renowned stages across Canada, including the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival. People also enjoyed watching him in the Lifetime television movie Trapped with My Husband and the feature film The Dwelling.
In addition to television, film, and stage work, he is a trained vocalist who studied voice at Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada.
Is George Krissa Gay?
George Krissa, like his character in The Holiday Sitter, is openly gay.
About helping make the festivities a little extra gay this year by doing a for the first time same-sex romance for Hallmark Channel, he said he would have loved to see this as a kid, to see everyone’s accepted and that their families love them. So, from this, we can tell George as a kid clearly did not have that. Yet, he had not yet told his coming out stories.
Is George Krissa Married?
George Krissa was not already married as of late 2022 but they are engaged. However, at the time of this writing, he did have someone special whom he said he would marry one day. He is Brian “Bri” Waters, a clothing designer according to his IG @briwaters. In fact, George also once briefly mentioned that Brian has been clothing him since 2017.
As of now, the twosome is believed to be living in Toronto with their dog Bixby. In May 2020, they and their parents) started renovating/restoring their house, a Century Home built in 1907. They are yet to put on display the finished outcome.
On 16 June 2022, George and Brian celebrated their fifth year anniversary when George took to his social media to rave about his partner as the “best guy” he knows.
So, like this, the couple is used to documenting their love life on social media. George believes everything is better when Brian, his “main squeeze”, is around. He tells his followers time and again that with Brian by his side, life is always good. “I’m the most annoying person that I know, and this fella still talks to me. I’m lucky. What a champ ☺️”, he said about Brian once. The latter also can not stop raving about how proud he is of the other. Lately, when congratulating brian on his new Hallmark project, he even swore that his beau was “Holiday Hunk” long before Hallmark caught on.
George Krissa Height
George Krissa stands 6’1” in height. With his great looks and personality, he appears even taller.
George Krissa Age
George Krissa was reportedly born in 1984. So, in case this is a truth, he should have turned 38 years old in 2022.
Is George Krissa On Instagram?
Yes. George Krissa could be found on Instagram @georgekrissa with 131 posts and 9,142 followers as of 12 December 2022. At this point, this was the only platform where one could look him up. Here, he shows people glimpses of his life as an actor, singer, and a “junk food connoisseur”.
Related FAQs
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When Is George Krissa Birthday?
George Krissa celebrates his birthday on July 4th.
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Where Is George Krissa From?
George comes from Lashburn, Saskatchewan in Canada, a small town of just 700 people.
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Who Are George Krissa Parents?
George Krissa showed his Instagram family ‘three-generations’ photos of him including his mother and maternal grandmother. This happened in October 2018 during his summer visits with the fam. In the caption, he funnily dubbed them the “dorks”. There have been a few more times when he showed some of his time spent with his mother. But, his father, we have never seen him on George’s social media.
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