Who is Jon Bernthal?
Jon Bernthal went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School, in Moscow, Russia, where he also played professional baseball in the European professional baseball federation. While in Moscow, he was noticed by the director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre and was invited to obtain his M.F.A there. After graduating in 2002 he has performed in over 30 plays regionally and off-Broadway including many with his own award-winning theatre company Fovea Floods.
Trivia
- His nose has been broken a reported 15 times to date (2026).
- Bernthal cites the event in 2009 as the epiphany that made him change his life. In 2009 a drunk man grabbed his dog. Afterwards the man and some of his buddies started following him home. After Bernthal warned him off and they didn't listen, Bernthal punched him in the face and was taken in to the police station as a consequence. The injured man woke up, later and witnesses came forward to say that he had menaced Bernthal before the actor punched him.
- His favorite films are The Silence of the Lambs (1991), D.C. Cab (1983), A Prophet (2009), GoodFellas (1990) and True Romance (1993).
- As of 2022, he has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Ford v Ferrari (2019) and King Richard (2021).
- Appears as Frank Castle in the TV series Daredevil (2015) plus starred with the original Daredevil (2003) movie star Ben Affleck in The Accountant (2016).