Acting wasn't always the path Jay was set on. Jay Walker grew up in Eagan, Minnesota, where his father ran a business buying and selling airplane parts that Jay was being groomed to take over one day. He earned his work ethic by working in the warehouse every summer and eventually went on to graduate college with an applied economics degree. However, during his last years of school he realized that he was miserable and that the life he was shaping for himself he did not have a passion for. This led him to ask himself "What had last brought me real joy?" and the answer was performance. In high school he had joined one of the best speech and debate teams in the country and he competed on the speech side every weekend. Here is where he learned comedic timing and the live trade of energy between a performer and an audience. He won state and placed second at nationals so he knew that he had something when it came to performance. This memory drove him to start doing stand-up and he enrolled in an on-camera acting class to rediscover his love of performance. He continued to make an impression on others and fortunately his teacher sent along a tape of Jay's second stand-up set ever to a manager he knew in Los Angeles. This caught the manager's attention and he asked him to fly out for a meeting. One thing led to another, and it all began to feel possible. Jay had made up his mind that he would never forgive himself if he did not give acting a real, serious shot.

Jay decided to make the bold move to Los Angeles in 2012 and he hit a misleading lucky streak early on. The first commercial audition he ever had, he booked and by the end of that year he had shot three national commercials. He was convinced that work would always come this easily, but he was quickly humbled by a stretch of a year or two with no bookings. This is when Jay began taking more classes and learned to treat classes as the tool that kept him sharp through the downturns. The classes did paid off and the bigger jobs did come. He booked a recurring guest star on a Starz series "Run the World", but what he never saw coming was video games. Despite being a lifelong gamer, Jay had only ever pictured performing in front of a camera, not inside a volume. This changed when he was cast as Seb in Minds Eye where he was introduced to PCAP. He was hooked when he got to perform long, uncut scenes where every angle could be a close-up and where the world has to be conjured entirely from imagination. It quickly became his favorite kind of work and shortly after he was also cast as the lead character Murphy in Battlefield 6.