Willett produced and starred in the film Becoming Redwood in 2011. The film won the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular Canadian Film Award. In 2010, Willett received a ‘Leo Award’ for his portrayal of the small town redneck antagonist in the IFC film, Cole, directed by Carl Bessai.
Alive, directed by Frank Marshall and produced by Kathleen Kennedy, was his first Hollywood movie. In the CBS miniseries, Joan of Arc, Willett starred alongside Leelee Sobieski, Peter O’Toole, and Shirley MacLaine. In the CBS event movie, The Locket, he worked with Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, as a young man caring for an aging lady in a nursing home.
