Jasper van Beusekom was born in Blaricum, The Netherlands. His father is a pilot for KLM and his mother used to be a stewardess. Jasper has one older sister. After a few years the family moved to Vorden, in the east of The Netherlands. Jasper went to high-school in the nearby city Zutphen. After Jasper completed high-school he moved to Amsterdam to pursue a career in acting. He attended various workshops and acting courses including one from Hugo Metsers, a well-known dutch actor. That specific course ended in the short movie Speeddate (2008), directed by Hugo Metsers. In the same year he made an appearance in the dutch soap-opera Onderweg naar Morgen and in several commercial campaigns. In 2010 Jasper had a role in the popular TV show "Feuten", a show about the initiation period at dutch fraternities.