Biography

London based Jonnie trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts taking diverse roles such as Konstantin in The Seagull, Antipholus in Comedy of Errors (directed by Edward Hall) and Tashi, a Buddhist Monk, in Tibetan Inroads.

With a penchant for creating challenging characters Jonnie relishes in taking on roles others are not comfortable doing and has continued this variance in his film and TV work. Roles include a fastidious Adverting Executive lost in a Forest (Do Elephants Pray? - dir. Paul Hills), an Irish Cowboy Vampire (Umbrage - dir. Drew Cullingham), an unrepentant sex-offender (Bad Girls - ITV - dir. Julian Holmes), your friendly neighbourhood drug-dealer Les (7 Seconds to Heaven - dir. Caleb Lindsey), a junkie ex-bassist (Black Smoke Rising - dir. Drew Cullingham), an alcoholic hedanist (Monk3ys - dir. Drew Cullingham) and the devioted husband of an abducted woman (The Power - dir. Paul Hills).

In 2007 Jonnie wrote, produced and starred in the feature film 'Do Elephants Pray?' (Dir: Paul Hills - Boston Kickout, The Poet) for Amaranth Film Partners & Elephant Features Ltd. In 2010 & 2011 the film won 8 International Festival awards.

He has also written the features 'Abra-Ca-Debra' and 'Take Down The Union Jack' both to be drected by Paul Hills for Elephant Features, and is in development the adaptation of the book "Rat Scabies & The Holy Grail". Jonnie has also worked consistently as a Voice Over artist on Radio & TV for clients as diverse as Timelife, EMI and the Ghanan Embassy. He was also 'The Station Voice' on Radio One's Sony Award winning idents. He has also presented on music radio and once fronted the band Curfew.

A keen photographer and independent traveller (despite being arrested at gun point in the Sahara Desert)  Jonnie's other interests include Tai Chi - The History of Art - Cinema - Loud Guitar Music and Answering rhetorical
questions.

Jonnie divides his time between London and the South of France where he lives with his partner Stéphanie
and their daughter.

He has a Kevin Bacon number of 3.