1. Jonathan Edward Bernthal was born in Washington, DC on September 20,1976, to a Jewish family.
35 Facts About Jon Bernthal
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Jon Bernthal has two brothers: Nicholas, an orthopedic surgeon and professor at UCLA, and Thomas, a consulting agency CEO who is married to former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
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Jon Bernthal attended the Sidwell Friends School, graduating in 1995.
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Jon Bernthal was discovered while at the Moscow Art Theatre by the executive director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he studied there as a graduate-level certificate student and completed his studies in 2002.
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Since 2002, Jon Bernthal has performed in over thirty plays regionally and Off-Broadway, including many with his own theater company, the now defunct Fovea Floods.
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Jon Bernthal had small guest roles in multiple television series, such as Boston Legal, CSI: Miami and How I Met Your Mother.
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Jon Bernthal booked his first regular role on a television series with the CBS sitcom The Class; the show was canceled after one season.
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Jon Bernthal had roles in films, such as Day Zero and World Trade Center.
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In 2009, Jon Bernthal was a series regular on the ABC television series Eastwick, and starred alongside actress Jaime Ray Newman.
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Jon Bernthal found critical success portraying Shane Walsh in Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series of the same name.
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Jon Bernthal reunited with Darabont for the TNT series Mob City, in which he played LAPD Detective Joe Teague, a police officer working in a corrupt 1940s Los Angeles, which was cancelled after one season.
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Jon Bernthal appeared in the 2011 Woody Harrelson feature Rampart.
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Jon Bernthal guest starred in episodes of television shows such as Numbers and Harry's Law.
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In 2011, Jon Bernthal performed in the premiere of the dark comedy play Small Engine Repair.
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However, filming commitments made Jon Bernthal withdraw from the play and he was replaced by James Badge Dale.
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In 2013, Jon Bernthal had supporting roles in the crime drama film Snitch, and the sports comedy film Grudge Match.
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Jon Bernthal played Brad in the Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Jon Bernthal played southerner Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis in the 2014 World War II film Fury, with critics praising the cast of the film.
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In 2014, Jon Bernthal took part in filming the movie Viena and the Fantomes, opposite Dakota Fanning and Evan Rachel Wood; the film was only released in 2020.
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Jon Bernthal next appeared in Denis Villeneuve's 2015 action drama film Sicario, which won numerous awards and received positive reviews from critics.
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In 2016, Jon Bernthal co-starred with Ben Affleck in the action-thriller The Accountant as Brax.
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Jon Bernthal appeared in significant roles in Edgar Wright's Baby Driver as Griff and prison drama Shot Caller.
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For Sweet Virginia, Jon Bernthal played a gentle motel-owner with Parkinson's disease and critics praised his performance.
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Jon Bernthal played the brother of a fisherman in the independent film The Peanut Butter Falcon.
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Jon Bernthal played business magnate Lee Iacocca in a supporting role for James Mangold's action biographical drama Ford v Ferrari.
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In summer 2019, Jon Bernthal filmed Those Who Wish Me Dead, a western film directed by Taylor Sheridan.
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In early 2019, Jon Bernthal reprised his role in the film version of Small Engine Repair, a play in which he originated the role of Terrance Swaino in 2011.
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In January 2019, Jon Bernthal joined the cast of The Many Saints of Newark, the prequel feature film of HBO's The Sopranos, which was released in October 2021.
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Jon Bernthal has done work in the PC and console gaming world as a voice actor, and his appearance has been used for non-playable characters.
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Jon Bernthal appears in both Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint as LT Cole D Walker.
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Jon Bernthal starred as Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins in the HBO miniseries We Own This City.
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Jon Bernthal will be starring in the American espionage thriller The Amateur and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, an upcoming adaptation of the Odyssey.
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Jon Bernthal is an advocate of pit bull ownership and is a spokesperson for the Animal Farm Foundation, which rescues and promotes the equal treatment of pit bulls.
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Jon Bernthal has three pit bulls of his own who often accompany him to set; two of them, Boss and Venice, made appearances in his 2012 film Rampart.
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Jon Bernthal married Erin Angle, on September 25,2010, in Potomac, Maryland.