Jon Bernthal Biography

Jonathan Edward "Jon" Bernthal (born September 20, 1976) is an American actor best known for his television role as Shane Walsh on the AMC series The Walking Dead and film roles in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Fury (2014), Sicario (2015), The Accountant (2016), and Baby Driver (2017). He portrayed LAPD Detective Joe Teague in Mob City and Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher) in the Netflix series Daredevil, and is set to reprise the latter role in the Netflix series The Punisher.

Early life

Bernthal was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to Joan Lurie (ne Marx) and Eric Lawrence "Rick" Bernthal, a lawyer with Latham & Watkins LLP. His paternal grandfather was musician and producer Murray Bernthal. He has two brothers, Nicholas and Thomas. His family is Jewish.

After high school, Bernthal studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, but later dropped out. At the advice Alma Becker, his acting teacher at Skidmore, Bernthal went on to attend the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. During his time there, he played catcher on a semi-professional baseball team.

Career

Bernthal was discovered by the executive director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied as a non-degree student and completed his studies in 2002.

Since 2002, Bernthal has performed in over 30 plays regionally and Off-Broadway, including many with his own award-winning theatre company, Fovea Floods. He also had small guest roles in television series such as Boston Legal, CSI: Miami, and How I Met Your Mother. Bernthal booked his first regular role on a television series with the sitcom The Class, which was created by Friends co-creator David Crane. The show was cancelled after only one season. After this, he had roles in films such as World Trade Center and Day Zero.

In 2009, Bernthal had a supporting role in the Ben Stiller comedy film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as mobster Al Capone. The same year, he became a series regular on the television series Eastwick, which was cancelled after only one season.

In 2010, Bernthal portrayed Sgt. Manuel Rodriguez on the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Bernthal portrayed Shane Walsh in Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series of the same name. He was a regular on the show until 2012 and was nominated for the Breakout Performance - Male Award at the 2011 Scream Awards for his performance. That same year, he guest starred in an episode of NBC's legal comedy-drama series Harry's Law as Lucas Trassino. In 2013, he appeared in the crime drama film Snitch.

Bernthal reunited with Darabont for the TNT series Mob City, in which he portrayed LAPD Detective Joe Teague, a police officer working in a corrupt 1940s Los Angeles, which was subsequently cancelled after one season. He also had supporting roles in the Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and the sports comedy film Grudge Match (2013). He played southerner Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis in the 2014 World War II film Fury, opposite Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pea and Logan Lerman.

Bernthal appears as a playable character in the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in a downloadable game mode "Exo Zombies". Bernthal next co-starred in Denis Villeneuve's action drama film Sicario, opposite Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin, which won numerous awards and received positive reviews from critics.

In June 2015, Marvel announced that Bernthal would portray Frank Castle / The Punisher in the second season of Netflix's superhero series Daredevil, which was released on March 18, 2016. and is set to reprise the latter role in the Netflix series The Punisher.

In 2017, he co-starred in Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut Wind River, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, a crime comedy in which he played Griff. He will star in the Irish action thriller film Pilgrimage, alongside Tom Holland and Richard Armitage.

Personal life

Bernthal married Erin Angle, the niece of professional wrestler Kurt Angle, on September 25, 2010 in Potomac, Maryland. They have two sons, Henry and Billy (born August 2011 and February 2013), and a daughter, Adeline (born February 2015). Bernthal is a cousin of Adam Schlesinger, bassist of the band Fountains of Wayne.

Together with his brother Nicholas, an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA, Bernthal runs a nonprofit organization called Drops Fill Buckets, described as an "impact-driven, entrepreneurial approach to making a difference".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Mary/Mary	Manny
2004	Tony n' Tina's Wedding	Dominic Fabrizzi
2004	Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman	Man in Office
2006	World Trade Center	Christopher Amoroso
2007	The Air I Breathe	Interviewer
2007	Day Zero	James Dixon
2008	Bar Starz	Donnie Pitron
2008	A Line in the Sand	Banzai
2009	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Al Capone
2010	The Ghost Writer	Rick Ricardelli
2010	Date Night	Young Man
2012	Rampart	Dan Morone
2013	Snitch	Daniel James
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Brad Bodnick	Nominated"?Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated"?Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated"?Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated"?Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Nominated"?Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated"?Gold Derby Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated"?Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Cast
2013	Grudge Match	B.J. Rose
2014	Fury	Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis	National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
2015	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Mr. McCarthy
2015	Sicario	Ted
2015	We Are Your Friends	Paige Morrell
2016	Justice League vs. Teen Titans	Trigon (voice)
2016	The Accountant	Brax
2016	The Escape	Holt	short film
2017	Wind River	Matt
2017	Baby Driver	Griff
2017	Sweet Virginia	Sam
2017	Pilgrimage	The Mute
2017	Shot Caller	Frank 'Shotgun'
TBA	The Peanut Butter Falcon		filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Lane Ruddock	Episode: "Malignant"
2004	Without a Trace	Alex Genya	Episode: "Bait"
2004	Dr. Vegas	Greg	Episode: "Dead Man, Live Bet"
2004	Boston Legal	Michael Shea	Episode: "Questionable Characters"
2005	Jonny Zero	Brett Parish	Episode: "I Did It All for the Nooky"
2005	CSI: Miami	Harry Klugman	2 episodes
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Sherm Hempell	Episode: "Goliath"
2005	How I Met Your Mother	Carlos	Episode: "Purple Giraffe"
2006-2007	The Class	Duncan Carmello	19 episodes
2009-2010	Eastwick	Raymond Gardener	12 episodes
2010	Numb3rs	Mike Nash	Episode: "Growin' Up"
2010	The Pacific	Sgt. Manuel Rodriguez	2 episodes
2010-2012	The Walking Dead	Shane Walsh	19 episodes Nominated"?Scream Award for Breakout Performance - Male (2011)
2012	Harry's Law	Lucas Trassino	Episode: "The Whole Truth"
2012	Robot Chicken	Hawkeye / Mayor of Des Moines	Episode: "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War"
2013	Mob City	LAPD Detective Joe Teague	6 episodes
2015	Show Me a Hero	Michael H. Sussman	4 episodes
2015	SuperMansion	Rat-A-Pult (voice)	3 episodes
2016	Daredevil	Frank Castle / Punisher	12 episodes
2017	The Punisher		upcoming series

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2014	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	Corporal Jim Decker (a.k.a. The Guard)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Small Engine Repair	Terence Swaino	Ovation Award for Acting Ensemble of a Play Nominated"?Ovation Award for Lead Actor in a Play