JON BERNTHAL couldnt make it last year due to his role on Mob City... BUT hes making it up to us by appearing at the Motor City Comic Con 25th year Anniversary Bring the house down BASH!! Jonathan Edward Jon Bernthal is an American actor, who appeared as Shane Walsh on the AMC television series The Walking Dead and as Joe Teague in the TNT series Mob City. Bernthal was born and raised in Washington, D.C. After high school, Bernthal studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, and later attended The School of Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. During his time there, he played professional baseball in the European Professional Baseball Federation (Confédération Européenne de Baseball). He was discovered by the executive director of Harvard Universitys Institute for Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated in 2002 from the American Repertory Theatre with a Master of Fine Arts. 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 like Boston Legal, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and many more. Bernthal got his first regular role on a television series on 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 other 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. Bernthal portrayed Shane Walsh in Frank Darabonts The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series of the same name. He was a regular on the show until 2012, when his character was killed off. He was nominated for the Breakout Performance – Male award at the 2011 Scream Awards for his performance.. In 2013, he appeared in the crime drama film Snitch. Bernthal reunited with Frank Darabont for the TNT series Mob City, in which he portrays Joe Teague a police officer working in a corrupt 1940s Los Angeles. He also had supporting roles in the Martin Scorsese directed film, The Wolf of Wall Street and the sports comedy film Grudge Match. He will star in the 2014 World War II film Fury.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:38:03 +0000
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