Raised in Seattle after his Toronto birth, Bledsoe honed his craft at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and earned a BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts under director Gerald Freedman. He entered television with a pilot opposite Kelly Lynch, then broke through in 2009 on Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty, later appearing in series such as Law & Order: SVU, Smash, The Man in the High Castle, and Shame…