Career
Nilsson was an asthmatic, but despite this he was active in the dramatic arts from a very young age. Nilsson was cast as Eric Singer, one of the central characters in the Disney television movie Model Behavior, which was released on 12 March 2000 in the United States of America. In the television show Our Hero, which ran from 2000 to 2002, Nilsson played the part of casual-warm and a super-supportive Rollins, an animal rescue guy who "knows way too much about raccoon poop". Nilsson"s last major role was as Gabriel Patterson on Adventure Incorporated.
He died from pneumonia-related heart failure on April 25, 2003 in North York, Ontario before the 22nd and final episode, "Trapped", had been broadcast, its original airdate being May 12, 2003.
Nilsson was 25 years old. A tribute was added to the last few frames of this episode showing a picture of Nilsson under which was written "In memory of Jesse Nilsson 1977-2003".