Jonathan Bennett Biography

Jonathan Bennett (born June 10, 1981) is an American actor and model. He is known for his roles as Aaron Samuels in the 2004 comedy film Mean Girls, Bud McNulty in 2005's Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and the title character in the 2009 direct-to-DVD comedy Van Wilder: Freshman Year and his recurring roles as Casey Gant in the UPN mystery drama Veronica Mars and JR Chandler in the ABC soap opera All My Children. He is the host of the Food Network series Halloween Wars; and he previously hosted Cake Wars.

Early life

Bennett was born in Ohio, to David Bennett, a Toledo physician, and Ruthanne Bennett (ne Mason). He has two half-brothers, Brian and Brent and one half-sister, Lisa. Bennett's mother died November 30, 2012, at 67, and his father died on April 28, 2014 at 73.

Bennett attended Eagle Point Elementary School in Rossford, Ohio, and graduated from Rossford High School in 1999.

Career

After moving to New York, he was cast on the ABC soap opera All My Children as J.R. Chandler from 2001 to 2002. Since then, he has appeared in various television dramas, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Smallville, and Veronica Mars.

Bennett co-starred in the 2004 comedy movie Mean Girls as Aaron Samuels, the love interest for star Lindsay Lohan's character. In 2005, he co-starred in the family comedy movie Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and the romantic comedy movie Lovewrecked. In 2007, Bennett appeared in the direct-to-video prequel TV series The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, in which he played Bo Duke. In 2009, he starred as the title character in Van Wilder: Freshman Year, and appeared as Nick in the Hallmark original movie Elevator Girl.

On September 4, 2014, Bennett was announced as one of the celebrities competing on the 19th season of Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with professional dancer Allison Holker. Bennett and Holker were eliminated on Week 6 of the competition and finished in 9th place.

From 2015 to 2017, Bennett hosted the Food Network cooking competition show Cake Wars.

In 2016, Bennett played gay sports agent Lucas in two episodes of Hit the Floor.

In 2018, with celebrity chef Nikki Martin, he released a pop culture cookbook titled The Burn CookBook.

On January 13, 2019, it was announced that Bennett would be a houseguest on the second season of the reality competition show Celebrity Big Brother.

Personal life

Bennett came out as gay in October 2017, and revealed he was in a relationship with former Amazing Race contestant and current Celebrity Page host Jaymes Vaughan.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Season of Youth	Taylor	Palm Beach International Film Festival Award for Best Actor
2004	Mean Girls	Aaron Samuels	Nominated "? Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry (shared with Lindsay Lohan) Nominated "? Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Male
2005	Love Wrecked	Ryan Howell
2005	Cheaper by the Dozen 2	Bud McNulty
2006	Bachelor Party Vegas	Nathan
2009	'	Zack Cooper
2009	Van Wilder: Freshman Year	Van Wilder
2012	Memorial Day	SSgt Kyle Vogel
2012	Music High	Jasper "Jazz" Poland
2012	Divorce Invitation	Michael
2012	Slightly Single in L.A.	Seven
2012	Christmas Crush	Ben
2013	Pawn	Aaron
2013	Anything Is Possible	George
2013	'	Greg
2013	Misogynist	Harrison	Nominated "? Best Actor - Los Angeles Underground Film Festival
2014	Authors Anonymous	William Bruce
2014	Mining for Ruby	Andrew
2014	A Christmas Kiss II	Sebastian
2015	Paid in Full	Jack
2015	Cats Dancing on Jupiter	Ben Cross
2015	'	Dean Stanton
2016	Submerged	Matt
2016	Do Over	Anthony Campana
2016	Romantically Speaking	Nathan
2016	Deadly Retreat	Mike
2016	Do You Take This Man	Christopher
2017	Surprise Me	Danny
2019	The Haunting of Sharon Tate	Jay Sebring	In post-production
2018	Stuck Out of Love	Kevin	post-production
2019	The Never List	Mr. Snyder	post-production
2019	The Dawn	William	post-production
2019	Blue Call	Thomas James	post-production
2019	Way to Abbottabad	Timothy	pre-production
	Day Six	Alex Parsons	In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Dad		Episode: "Habadadery"
1998	'	Youth	Episode: "Racer"
2001-2002	All My Children	JR Chandler	Role held: November 2001 - September 13, 2002
2002	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kyle Fuller	Episode: "Deception"
2003	Boston Public	Ethan Guest	Episode: "Chapter Sixty-Three"
2004-2005	Veronica Mars	Casey Gant	2 episodes
2005	Smallville	Kevin Grady	Episode: "Blank"
2007	'	Bo Duke	Television film
2007	Cane	Brad	Episode: "Time Away"
2010	Elevator Girl	Nick Sweeney	Television film
2012	Fred: The Show	Lash Landridge	Episode: "Freddy and the Figglettes, Part 2"
2012	Holiday High School Reunion	Ben Oliver	Television film
2013	'	Ben	Television film
2013	The Glades	Drew Green	Episode: "Killer Barbecue"
2014	Copycat	Himself (host)
2014	Sweet Surrender	Jerry	Television film
2014	Dancing with the Stars	Himself (contestant)	Finished in ninth place
2014	'	Sebastian	Television film
2015	Romantically Speaking	Nathan	Television film
2015-2017	Cake Wars	Himself (host)
2016-2018	Cupcake Wars	Himself (host)
2016	Hit the Floor	Lucas	2 episodes
2016	Awkward	Ethan	7 episodes
2018	The Last Sharknado: It's About Time	Billy the Kid	Television film
2018	Christmas Made to Order	Steven	Television film
2019	Celebrity Big Brother	Himself (houseguest)
2019	Supergirl	Quentin	Episode: "Stand and Deliver"

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2018	"Thank U, Next"	Ariana Grande