Jonathan Roumie is an American actor known for his role as evangelist Lonnie Frisbee in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution and as Jesus in The Chosen, a crowd-funded television series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.
26 Facts About Jonathan Roumie
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Jonathan Roumie is a voice artist and a public speaker.
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Jonathan Roumie has stated that his great-grandparents on his father's side were Armenian.
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Jonathan Roumie holds a degree in film from the School of Visual Arts.
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Shortly after, Jonathan Roumie moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television.
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Jonathan Roumie started in the entertainment industry as production assistant and was the location scout for Spider-Man, National Treasure and I Am Legend.
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Jonathan Roumie created music, and his first original song, "Outta Time", was released in Europe for the album Unbreakable, which he co-produced.
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Jonathan Roumie began seeking acting work and made his first appearance as a voice actor for an MTV series.
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Jonathan Roumie eventually began landing minor roles on television series, including The Good Wife, As the World Turns, and Castle, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a full-time acting career.
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Jonathan Roumie met Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen, in 2014 when Jenkins was the media director for a large church in Illinois and cast Jonathan Roumie for the role of Jesus in a short film about the Two Thieves.
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Jonathan Roumie is the co-producer, co-director and lead actor of The Last Days: The Passion and Death of Jesus, a live performance about the passion of Christ.
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Now known worldwide for portraying Jesus in the series, Jonathan Roumie has been featured in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the National Catholic Register, America Magazine, and The Atlantic, and The New Yorker.
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Jonathan Roumie has been interviewed on network television for shows such as The View, Fox News, EWTN, and various religious-based news and information outlets.
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Jonathan Roumie portrayed charismatic hippie evangelist Lonnie Frisbee in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution.
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Jonathan Roumie serves as a narrator for the Catholic prayer app Hallow.
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Jonathan Roumie appeared in the Super Bowl 2024 commercial for the app, causing a huge spike in downloads of Hallow.
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Jonathan Roumie was one of the revival session speakers at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress 2024 with over 55,000 participants in attendance.
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At one time, Jonathan Roumie was involved in an entertainment fellowship for Christian entertainment professionals.
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Jonathan Roumie has been a ministry leader and has served as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion within the Catholic Church.
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Jonathan Roumie is a strong advocate of the sacraments, ecumenism, humility, and charity.
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Jonathan Roumie serves on the board of Catholics in Media Associates.
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Jonathan Roumie was named one of Aleteia's "10 Catholics who restored our faith in humanity" in 2021 and made it onto Our Sunday Visitor's list of Catholics of the Year in 2022.
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Jonathan Roumie can be found hosting live prayers on Instagram, some of which have been viewed nearly 100,000 times.
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Jonathan Roumie is a talented illustrator, and won awards in high school for this work.
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Jonathan Roumie is the subject of a wide ranging set of scams, whereas scam artists pretend to be Jonathan Roumie, make allegations that he was somehow slighted by his management team, and the victims are then instructed to send him funds, with the victims often being elderly people who trust him because of his Christian focused body of work.
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Jonathan Roumie is in no way personally connected with these impersonation scams.