About Me
Originally from Michigan, I now live in Russia. I fell into acting serendipitously at age 45 after a previous career as a scientific book publisher. After lead roles in three New York plays, I acted in 150 independent and student films in Los Angeles. Then I wrote and directed 25 short films, winning 20 awards for my eight Antiwar Short Comedies. I have completed three feature-length scripts, and my first full-length movie has completed post-production. I am currently finishing a script about grief, and developing a treatment for a sci-fi script about two VR gamers who disappear into alternate universes. After that I will get back to writing comedies.
A Few Fun Facts
- I'm living in Siberia with a beautiful Russian woman named Mila.
- I fell into acting by accident when I was 45.
- I've studied 10 languages.
- I shot my first feature at age 65.
- I was able to speak conversational Russian after just a few months of study. I now know several thousand words.
- I adapted an award-winning British novel into a screenplay.
- I lived in Mexico for 3 years.
- My grandchildren are Japanese and live in Japan.
- I began doing parkour at age 65.
- I was born with a caul. This happens in 1 of 80,000 births, and the nuns at the hospital made a big deal of it.
- A young Russian woman I met in India in 2023 invited me to visit her in Petrozavodsk, near Finland. This eventually led to me living in Siberia with Mila, whom I met doing language exchange online.
- I wrote an "as told to" screenplay of a medic in the Iraq War.
- I taught a comedy acting class in Tokyo in English and Japanese.
- Since March 2023 I've lived in Japan, India, Philippines, and Vietnam, and now Russia.
- I taught beginner parkour in Da Nang, Vietnam.
- Currently I have no plans to return to the USA. Maybe someday, with Mila.
Contact: JonnyTheActor@gmail.com
