Jonathan James Cake was born on 31 August 1967 and is an English actor who has worked on various TV programmes and films.
33 Facts About Jonathan Cake
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Jonathan Cake's father was a glassware importer and his mother a school administrator.
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Jonathan Cake became a rugby player in college and graduated in 1989.
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Jonathan Cake attended a two-year training programme at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, then trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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In 1992, Jonathan Cake appeared in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Jonathan Cake performed the play at the Barbican Theatre in London in 1993.
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Jonathan Cake then appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Wallenstein, The Odyssey and Beggar's Opera.
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In 1995, Jonathan Cake acted in the Shared Experience Theatre Company production of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss at London's Lyric Theatre.
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Jonathan Cake branched out to the screen when he landed a guest spot in the British TV comedy series Press Gang in 1993.
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Jonathan Cake made his first television film appearance alongside Jasper Carrott and Ann Bryson in BBC's Carrott U Like in 1994 and broke into the film business the following year with a small role in the American film First Knight.
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Jonathan Cake then played Ewan in two episodes of the series Grange Hill, Nat in two episodes of Cold Lazarus, and Hattersley in the TV miniseries adaptation of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Jonathan Cake was cast in the TV films Nightlife, The Girl and the 1996 pilot episode of Wings.
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Also in 1996, Jonathan Cake was in True Blue, a British sports film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson, and in an episode of The Thin Blue Line.
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Jonathan Cake next worked in Cows, played Jack Favell in the 1997 Anglo-German miniseries Rebecca, based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, and portrayed Peter Templer in a TV miniseries adaptation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, which starred James Purefoy, Simon Russell Beale and Paul Rhys.
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Jonathan Cake portrayed Regan Montana in the TV film Diamond Girl and co-starred with Adrian Dunbar and Susan Vidler in the TV series The Jump.
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Jonathan Cake worked with Maria Aitken and Leslie Grantham in the British TV film The Bench.
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Jonathan Cake revisited the stage with work in Baby Doll, an adaptation of the film of the same name by Tennessee Williams, and was handed the Barclays Best Actor Award for his performance.
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Jonathan Cake next appeared as Randolph Cleveland in an episode of Dr Terrible's House of Horrible, co-starred with Lara Belmont and Teresa Churcher in the television thriller The Swap, starred as Jack Wellington in the short-lived Fox series The American Embassy, and was cast as Andrea in the British film The One and Only.
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Still in 2002, Jonathan Cake made his Broadway debut in the leading role of Jason in the Euripides play Medea.
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Jonathan Cake appeared in the Canadian television film Riverworld, portrayed Dr Mengele in the Showtime TV film Out of the Ashes, and portrayed John Christow in the 2004 episode "The Hollow" of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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Jonathan Cake starred as Jason Shepherd in the crime drama Fallen, appeared as Dr Malcolm Bowers in an episode of NBC's Inconceivable called "Sex, Lies and Sonograms", and portrayed Alastair Campbell in the TV film The Government Inspector.
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Jonathan Cake was cast as a gladiator named Tyrannus in the ABC historical TV series Empire, which ran from 28 June 2005 to 26 July 2005.
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Jonathan Cake played the recurring role of Roy in the ABC short-lived drama series Six Degrees.
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Jonathan Cake appeared in an episode of Extras called "Sir Ian McKellen" and played Marshall Crawford in the TV film The Mastersons of Manhattan.
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On stage, Jonathan Cake played Father Flynn in John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Jonathan Cake then performed in Coriolanus at London's Shakespeare's Globe, and was cast in Cymbeline at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City.
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Jonathan Cake played Cole Barker in two episodes of the NBC series Chuck called "Chuck Versus the Beefcake" and "Chuck Versus the Lethal Weapon".
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In 2010, Jonathan Cake teamed up with Pedro Miguel Arce in the American film Krews, by Hilbert Hakim.
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Jonathan Cake appeared as Mark Antony in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Antony and Cleopatra in 2013.
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In 2021, Jonathan Cake had a recurring role on Stargirl as Shade.
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On 24 September 2004, Jonathan Cake married American actress Julianne Nicholson in Italy.
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The couple have two children: a son, Ignatius Jonathan Cake, born 30 August 2007, and a daughter, Phoebe Margaret Jonathan Cake, born 30 April 2009.
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Jonathan Cake was previously engaged to British actress Olivia Williams; the relationship ended after seven years.