I spend over an hour looking for beefcake photos of cast members of Welcome to Derry, and all I found was a potential Chad Root and two of Fin Burke, in his underwear and hugging his boyfriend. He's definitely getting a profile.
Fin, aka Finley, was born in Toronto around 2006. His mum Dawn worked in the script and continuity department for 125 episodes of Murdoch Mysteries (2008-25), about a 19th century detective (Yannick Bisson). She has also worked on Goosebumps, American Psycho, Wind at My Back, The Listener, and Children Ruin Everything.
Fin attended Greenwood College High School in Toronto, where he took classes in acting and musical theater and starred in a lot of plays:
Troy Bolton in High School Musical
Wayne Hopkins in Puffs: an orphan boy who is invited to attend a certain school of magic (not that one).
Seymor in Little Shop of Horrors. Who is he dancing with?
Tyler in Public Enemy, about a family dinner "with a surreal twist." If I'm reading the French correctly, playwright Olivier Choinière is queer, so I imagine there is some gay content.
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He also starred (as a voice on the telephone) in the 2023 short Clara is Awake: A teenage girl gets texts from someone who claims to have met her last summer; "I really miss you. I know you better than you think." Ulp.
She texts back: "Leave me alone. I don't know you, and you're being weird." He doesn't leave her alone.
He graduated in 2024, and enrolled in the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal as an acting major.
Two on-screen acting credits since:
The first episode of Welcome to Derry (2025): the snarly, critical older brother of "bury your gays" Teddy.
The short Grave in the Clouds (2025): a Jewish man (Steven Hobé) discovers that his teenage son (Fin) has written an essay denying the Holocaust, and introduces him to a survivor.
Here Fin and his buddy meet former Disney Channel teen Cole Sprouse. I cropped out the girls; most of Fin's Instagram photos have him hugging a girl.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit.
But some of the photos suggest that his buddy is more of a boyfriend.
"Sweet Thoughts of You"
The theatricality -- and the girl-hugging -- makes me worry that the guys are just pretending. I've never understood why straight buddies would pretend to be a gay couple -- aren't they setting themselves up for homophobic harassment? -- but it happens. While they were playing Kelvin and Keefe on The Righteous Gemstones, Adam Devine and Tony Cavalero often hinted that they were real-life sex partners.
The search for n*de photos was equally frustrating. Is this guy really our Fin? He looks too muscular.
A better candidate, taken May 2025, but was our Fin really doing n*de modeling during his first year at the National Theatre School of Canada?
Maybe an artistic side view should be enough.
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