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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) was a Lithuanian-born American poet, filmmaker, and critic often called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, and a pioneer of the diary film.
Jonas Nay
Jonas Nay (born 1990, Lübeck) is a German actor and musician, star of Deutschland 83/86/89 as spy Martin Rauch, award-winning for Homevideo, also composer and member of the band Pudeldame.
Jonathan Abrams (writer)
Jonathan A. Abrams is an American screenwriter and theatrical book writer from San Francisco, distinct from the NYT sports journalist of the same name. He wrote the screenplay for Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 (2024) and the Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll.
Jonathan Adams (American actor)
Jonathan Adams (born 1967, Pittsburgh) is an American actor and voice actor known for Henry Walker on American Dreams, Dr. Daniel Goodman on Bones, Chuck Larabee on Last Man Standing, and voicing Galactus, Darkseid, Atrocitus, and Tyrael.
Jonathan Ajayi
Jonathan Ajayi (born 1996, London) is a British actor of Nigerian heritage, a LAMDA graduate known for Lekan Baako in Noughts + Crosses, Smee in FX's Alien: Earth, and The Brothers Size at the Young Vic.
Jonathan Alwyn
Jonathan Alwyn (1930-2021) was a British television director and producer, son of composer William Alwyn, known for devising Mystery and Imagination (1966-70) and directing episodes of The Avengers, Doomwatch, and Enemy at the Door.
Jonathan and Martha Kent
Jonathan and Martha Kent, Ma and Pa Kent, are Superman's adoptive farmer parents of Smallville, Kansas, who found and named the infant Kal-El; created in 1938–1939 Superman comics, killed off and revived across continuity eras, and portrayed on screen from Phyllis Thaxter to Neva Howell.
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey (born 1988, Oxfordshire) is an English actor, also called Jonny Bailey, known for Anthony in Bridgerton, the Olivier-winning Jamie in Company, Tim Laughlin in Fellow Travelers, and Fiyero in Wicked.
Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Ray Banks (born 1947, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Frank McPike in Wiseguy; six-time Emmy nominee.
Jonathan Bennett (actor)
Jonathan Bennett (born 1981) is an American actor known as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls (2004), a Hallmark holiday-movie leading man behind the network's first LGBTQ-led films, host of Halloween Wars, and a General Hospital cast member.
Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis (1976-2003), American actor and teen idol, played Lucas Wolenczak on NBC's seaQuest DSV and starred in The NeverEnding Story II, Ladybugs, and Sidekicks; died by suicide at 27.
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 Cavendish
Jonathan Cavendish is a British independent film producer, co-founder of Imaginarium Studios with Andy Serkis, known for Bridget Jones's Diary, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Breathe (about his father Robin Cavendish), and Animal Farm.
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 Creek
Jonathan Creek: BBC One comedy-drama (1997–2016) created by David Renwick, starring Alan Davies as a magician's trick designer who solves impossible crimes from his windmill home, with Caroline Quentin and later companions; BAFTA-winning howdunnit.
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 Freeman (actor)
Jonathan Freeman (born 1950, Bay Village, Ohio) is an American actor and puppeteer, the voice of Disney's Jafar in Aladdin (1992) and its sequels, and the originator of Jafar in the 2014 Broadway musical, which he left in 2022 after over 2,000 performances.
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 Glazer
Jonathan Glazer (born 1965) is a British film director of Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin, and the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest, who began in music videos and commercials.
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 Goldstein (filmmaker)
Jonathan Michael Goldstein (born 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, one half of the duo Goldstein & Daley, known for Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Game Night, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
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 Higgins
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, fictional British majordomo of Robin's Nest in Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), played by Emmy winner John Hillerman; WWII-veteran backstory, Dobermans Zeus and Apollo; reboot counterpart Juliet Higgins.