Kevin Alves

Alves was born on October 19, 1991, in Toronto and raised in Newmarket, Ontario. His mother is from Brazil and his father is from Portugal. In 2025, it was revealed that Alves was dating his Yellowjackets costar Alexa Barajas.

Alves began modeling at the age of 12. At age 19 he began studying acting for film and television. Since then he has been acting in shows including Warehouse 13 and What's Up Warthogs. He has a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation playing Fab, a love interest to Tristan Milligan. In 2017, he plays newly arrived werewolf Bat in the second season of Shadowhunters. He portrayed Javi in Netflix series Locke & Key. Alves also has a starring role as Travis in the Showtime drama series Yellowjackets.

Towards the end of March 2024, Alves announced to Deadline his feature film directorial debut with Lucky Weekend. The film is a coming-of-age story, in which 18 year-old Gabe (Alves), who finds out his best friend has stolen his winning scratch ticket and wrangles a group of unlikely friends to help him steal it back before it is cashed in.

It was also announced in April 2024 that Alves will take on a recurring role in Netflix's eight episode comedy series No Good Deed.

In February 2025, Yellowjackets returned to Paramount+ with Showtime for a third season where Alves plays Travis Martinez for all 10 episodes.

Alves competed up through the junior level in the Canadian domestic competition structure. While he was a young skater, he discussed with his parents switching to compete for Brazil, his mother's country of origin. He switched to Brazil in 2007.

In the 2007-2008 season, Alves competed at the 2008 Four Continents Championships, becoming the first men's single skater to represent Brazil at an ISU Championship, and placed 26th. Later that month, he placed 36th at the 2008 World Junior Championships, and became the first skater to represent Brazil at the event.

In the 2008-2009 season, Alves made his debut on the ISU Junior Grand Prix. He placed 20th at the event in Courchevel, France, and 10th at the event in Cape Town, South Africa. He placed 16th at the 2009 Four Continents Championships and went on the following month to place 37th at the 2009 World Championships, where he became the first men's skater from Brazil to compete at the senior World level.

• JGP, Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series