Aedan Jayce was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the youngest son of Alan and Valerie Szymanski. His father, an Emmy-award winning writer and director, and his mother, a valiant health care worker. He has one older brother, Conor Rayne, a Grammy-award winning drummer and producer. Jayce graduated from Immaculata High School and attended Merrimack College on a football scholarship. After significant injuries, he moved to Philadelphia and attended Temple University. He explored several areas of study, including geology, philosophy and economics, before finding his passion for acting.Jayce credits his mother, Valerie, for his acting training, noting, "every hour, of every day, I'd do or say whatever I could to make her laugh." After three years of study, Jayce left Temple to pursue acting wholeheartedly.Since, Jayce appeared in Concrete Cowboys (Netflix - 2019), Night of the Devil (FatCampFilms - 2019) and numerous festival-nominated short films. Currently (February 2020), Jayce is working on an "Untitled" CNN film-series, modeling in NYC and studying at the Philadelphia Acting Studio.