edgepedia

Screen people and creators

14,937 articles

Jonathan Cake

Jonathan Cake (born 1967, Worthing, Sussex) is an English actor known for the 1998 biopic Mosley, Desperate Housewives, and stage roles in Baby Doll and Medea, winning the 2002 Barclays Best Actor Award and a 2003 Theatre World Award.

Jonathan Cherry

Jonathan Cherry (born 1978, Montreal) is a Canadian actor known for Rory Peters in Final Destination 2, Rudy in House of the Dead, Willie in WolfCop, and Coach Pete in The Novice.

Jonathan Crombie

Jonathan Crombie (1966-2015) was a Canadian actor best known as Gilbert Blythe in CBC's Anne of Green Gables (1985), its 1987 and 2000 sequels, and Road to Avonlea; also a Stratford Festival and Broadway (The Drowsy Chaperone) performer, son of Toronto mayor David Crombie.

Jonathan Del Arco

Jonathan Del Arco, Uruguayan-American actor (born 1966), played Hugh the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Picard and Dr. Morales on The Closer and Major Crimes; also an LGBT activist.

Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) was an American director of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense; began under Roger Corman with Caged Heat.

Jonathan Firth

Jonathan Stephen Firth (born 1967, Brentwood, Essex) is an English actor, younger brother of Colin Firth, known for Middlemarch (1994), Far from the Madding Crowd (1998), Victoria & Albert (2001) as Prince Albert, and the Prince & Me films.

Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Frakes (born 1952, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; full name Jonathan Scott Frakes) is an American actor and director, best known as Commander William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as director of Star Trek: First Contact.

Jonathan Frid

Jonathan Frid (John Herbert Frid, 1924-2012), Canadian RADA- and Yale-trained stage actor famous as vampire Barnabas Collins on ABC's Dark Shadows (1967-1971), later Broadway's Arsenic and Old Lace and one-man readers' theater tours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Jonathan Gilbert, American former child actor (born 1967 per IMDb; other sources say 1968), played Willie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983), brother of Melissa Gilbert, later a New York stockbroker; distinct from the British screenwriter Jon Gilbert and other namesakes.

Jonathan Goldsmith

Jonathan Goldsmith (born 1938, New York) is the American actor who played the Most Interesting Man in the World in Dos Equis commercials from 2006 to 2016; also a veteran character actor with 350+ TV roles and author of Stay Interesting.

Jonathan Goodwin (escapologist)

Jonathan Goodwin (born 1980) is a Welsh retired escapologist, TV stunt performer, and Britain's Got Talent 2019 finalist, paralyzed in October 2021 during an America's Got Talent: Extreme rehearsal; he is not the novelist, professor, or lawyer of the same name.

Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Groff (born 1985, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American stage and screen actor. Known as Melchior in Spring Awakening, King George in Hamilton, Holden Ford in Mindhunter, Kristoff in Frozen; won the 2024 Tony for Merrily We Roll Along and starred in Just in Time.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin, 1914-2002) was an American character actor, the campy villain Dr. Zachary Smith on CBS's Lost in Space (1965-68), Bradford Webster in The Third Man, and a Pixar voice actor; not the casting director or any other namesake.

Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Hyde (born Brisbane, Australia; sources give 1947 or 1948) is an Australian-born British actor, RADA graduate and RSC veteran, known for Jumanji, Titanic, The Strain, and Trollhunters.

Jonathan Jackson (actor)

Jonathan Jackson (born 1982, Orlando, Florida) is an American actor, musician, and author, the original Lucky Spencer on General Hospital, a multi-Daytime Emmy winner, Avery Barkley on Nashville, and frontman of the band Enation.

Jonathan Keltz

Jonathan Lippert Keltz (born 1988, New York) is an American actor known as Jake Steinberg on HBO's Entourage, Leith Bayard on The CW's Reign, and for Prom (2011), 21 & Over (2013), and Hallmark lead roles.

Jonathan Kerrigan

Jonathan Kerrigan (born 1972, Lincolnshire), English actor and composer; TV leads as Sam Colloby in Casualty, PC Rob Walker in Heartbeat, Neil in In the Club; composed Merseybeat's title theme; married to actress Shelley Conn.

Jonathan Langdon

Jonathan Langdon (Jonathan Marcus Langdon), Canadian actor born 1987 in Toronto, known as Lou Carmody in NOS4A2, Hank in No Tomorrow, Hudson in Run the Burbs, Coach in Disney's Zombies, and voice of Barney.

Jonathan LaPaglia

Jonathan LaPaglia (JLP), Australian actor and host born 1969 in Adelaide; former emergency physician; starred in New York Undercover, Seven Days, The District, The Slap, Underbelly: Badness, Love Child; hosted Australian Survivor 2016-2025, succeeded by David Genat.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Jonathan William Lipnicki (born 1990) is an American actor and producer, the child star of Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little, later a Buffalo 8 executive producer and cast member of Primetime (2026).

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Lynn (born 1943, Bath, England) is a British director, screenwriter, actor, and author, co-creator with Antony Jay of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and director of Clue, My Cousin Vinny, and The Whole Nine Yards.

Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors, American actor (Yale School of Drama, 2016), known for Lovecraft Country, Da 5 Bloods, Creed III, and Marvel's Kang the Conqueror; convicted of misdemeanor assault in December 2023 and dropped by Marvel.

Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades (born 1947, Salisbury), FRSL and hon FRIBA, British writer and film-maker on architecture, food and culture; over 60 BBC documentaries since 1990, Times restaurant critic 1986-2001, author of Pompey and An Encyclopaedia of Myself.

Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, producer, and television creator, best known for co-writing The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar for his brother Christopher Nolan.

Jonathan Penner

Jonathan Penner (born 1962, New York City) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, Oscar-nominated for Down on the Waterfront, screenwriter of The Bye Bye Man, and a three-time Survivor contestant; distinct from the novelist Jonathan Penner born 1940.

Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce (born John or Joe Price, 1947, Holywell, Wales), Welsh stage and screen actor; Tony winner for Comedians and Miss Saigon, Olivier-winning Hamlet, Cannes Best Actor for Carrington, knighted 2021.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe, 1977) is an Irish actor known for Velvet Goldmine, Match Point, Elvis (Golden Globe 2006), Henry VIII in The Tudors, and Vikings.

Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross is an English television and radio presenter known for hosting Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on BBC One and The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV.

Jonathan Roumie (جوناثان رومي)

Jonathan Roumie (جوناثان رومي) is an American actor of Egyptian and Irish descent, a School of Visual Arts filmmaking graduate, best known as Jesus in the crowdfunded series The Chosen and as Lonnie Frisbee in Jesus Revolution (2023).

Jonathan Sadowski

Jonathan Sadowski (born 1979, Chicago) is an American actor and producer known for She's the Man, Josh Kaminski on Young & Hungry, $#! My Dad Says, Chernobyl Diaries, and Friday the 13th.