Jon Bernthal
Birthdate: Sep 20, 1976
Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Jon Bernthal (birth name: Jonathan Edward Bernthal) is best known for his recurring role in the hit series The Walking Dead (2010-2012; 2018), Daredevil (2016), The Punisher (2017-2019), and as Michael Berzatto in Christopher Storer’s acclaimed hit FX series, The Bear (2022-present), and made his first significant feature role in Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center (2006), starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello and Michael Shannon, and returning $163 million for Paramount Pictures.
Bernthal portrayed Al Capone in the sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), starring Ben Stiller and directed by Shawn Levy, and earning a solid $413 million for 20th Century Fox. Bernthal was cast by director/co-writer/producer Roman Polanski for the brilliant film adaptation (from Robert Harris’s novel, The Ghost), The Ghost Writer (2010), co-starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams, and grossing a good $60.3 million after premiering at the Berlin Film Festival.
Bernthal’s biggest role to date in a significant movie was a major supporting role in director/co-writer Ric Roman Waugh’s action thriller, Snitch (2013), starring Dwayne Johnson (also a producer), Barry Pepper, Michael K. Williams and Susan Sarandon, grossing a disappointing $58 million for distributor Lionsgate.
Bernthal was cast opposite Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Hart, Alan Arkin, and Kim Basinger in director/producer Peter Segal’s boxing comedy, Grudge Match (2013), released by Warner Bros for a poor $45 million take. Bernthal joined filmmaker Martin Scorsese for his blistering dark comedy, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), based on Jordan Belfort’s non-fiction book, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler and Rob Reiner, earning five Oscar nominations and earning a robust $407 million globally for Paramount Pictures.
Joe Bernthal then joined the hefty ensemble of Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jason Isaacs in director/writer/producer David Ayer’s WWII drama, Fury (2014), grossing a potent $212 million for Sony Pictures Releasing/Columbia Pictures. Bernthal played a supporting role in the lovely indie movie, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), written by Jesse Andrews from his 2012 novel, with Thomas Mann, RJ Cyle, and Olivia Cooke, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and grossing $9 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Bernthal played a cop in the tense Denis Villeneuve-directed thriller, Sicario (2015), written by Taylor Sheridan, and co-starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, and Victor Garber, and earning $85 million for Lionsgate after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. Bernthal landed his first co-starring, above-the-title role of Braxton in both The Accountant (2016) and its sequel, The Accountant 2 (2025), both starring Ben Affleck and directed by Gavin O’Connor, with the former grossing a knockout $155 million return for Warner Bros., and the latter released by MGM via Amazon MGM Studios.
Bernthal reunited with director/writer Taylor Sheridan for the neo-Western, Wind River (2017), starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, and then jumped into director/writer Edgar Wright’s hit $227-grossing crime movie for Sony/TriStar Pictures, Baby Driver (2017), with Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Eiza Gonzalez, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Bernthal reunited with director/writer/producer Ric Roman Waugh for a major role in the prison drama, Shot Caller (2017), starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and then joined filmmaker Steve McQueen for his tense revenge-crime drama, Widows (2018), co-starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a 20th Century Fox release earning $76 million.
Jon Bernthal was part of the supporting cast of directors/writers Tyler Nilson’s and Michael Schwartz’s successful indie comedy-drama, The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), with Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes and Thomas Haden Church, and premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival before becoming the highest grossing U.S. indie movie of the year with a $23.3 million take for Roadside Attractions.
Bernthal vividly portrayed Lee Iacocca in the terrific race car drama, Ford v Ferrari (2019), starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, and Noah Jupe, and grossing an excellent $225.5 million for 20th Century Fox after premiering at the Telluride Film Festival. Bernthal reunited with director/co-writer/producer Taylor Sheridan for the thriller staring Angelina Jolie, Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), with Finn Little, Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen, but which had its theatrical business curtailed by Warner Bros./New Line Cinema when it was released simultaneously in cinemas and streaming (HBO Max), and earned only $23.5 million theatrically.
Bernthal delivered another terrific supporting performance as a tennis coach in the acclaimed biopic starring Best Actor Oscar-winning Will Smith, King Richard (2021), with Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton and Tony Goldwyn under Reinaldo Marcus Green’s direction, premiering at the Telluride Film Festival and grossing a poor $39.4 million gross for Warner Bros.
Jon Bernthal was for the first time star and producer of a feature with director/writer/co-star John Pollono’s black comedy-drama, Small Engine Repair (2021), with Shea Whigham, Spencer House and Jordana Spiro, and landing a modest release via Vertical Entertainment after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Bernthal co-starred in co-writer/producer David Chase’s long-anticipated Sopranos prequel for Warner Bros., The Many Saints of Newark (2021), co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, John Magaro, Ray Liotta and Vera Farmiga, and which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before it was released simultaneously in theaters and on streaming, resulting in an inevitably poor theatrical take of $13 million.
Bernthal was co-star in director/writer/producer Lena Dunham’s sex comedy, Sharp Stick (2022), with Kristine Froseth, Sabbat, Scott Speedman, Dunham, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Taylour Paige and Jennifer Jason Leigh, released to very poor returns (well under $100,000) after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Bernthal co-starred in director/writer/producer Ava DuVernay’s Origin (2023), her dramatized version of Isabel Wilkerson’s highly acclaimed non-fiction book, Caste, with Aujanue Ellis-Taylor portraying Wilkerson, along with Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Niecy Nash-Betts, Nick Offerman and Blair Underwood, but proving to be a money loser for Neon after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Jon Bernthal played opposite Rami Malek (who also produced) and Laurence Fishburne in the vigilante spy movie, The Amateur (2025), with Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Julianne Nicholson under James Hawes’s direction, and released wide by 20th Century Fox. Bernthal took on the role of Menelaus in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated $250 million adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey (2026), starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Bennie Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia and Mia Goth, produced by Nolan’s company Syncopy Inc. and released by Universal Pictures.
Bernthal then starred in the action comedy, Snow Ponies (date to be announced), with Evan Peters, Charlie Plummer, and Josh Gad under Darrin Prescott’s direction and based on Pat Healy’s screenplay.
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Personal life
Jon Bernthal was born in Washington, D.C., and was raised in Cabin John, Maryland, by parents Joan Lurie and Eric Bernthal (lawyer, chair of the board of the Humane Society of the U.S.). Bernthal has two brothers, Nicholas (an orthopedic surgeon) and Thomas (a consultant). Bernthal, raised in a Jewish family, attended the Quaker school Sidwell Friends School, graduating in 1995. Bernthal dropped out of his college, Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and then attended the Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow. Bernthal has been married to Erin Angle since 2010; the couple has three children, Adeline, Billy, and Henry. His family lives in Ojai, California. Bernthal’s height is 5’ 11”. Bernthal’s estimated net worth is $12 million.
Jon Bernthal Movies
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- 2025 |
The Accountant 2
asBraxton
Christian Wolff applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief's murder.
- 2025 |
The Amateur
asThe Bear
When his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a decoder takes matters into his own hands.
- 2023 |
- 2022 | Sharp Stickas Josh
- 2021 |
The Unforgivable
asBlake
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
- 2021 |
King Richard
asRick Macci
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard.
- 2021 |
The Many Saints of Newark
asJohnny Soprano
Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.
- 2021 |
Small Engine Repair
asTerrence Swaino
Events spin wildly out of control when three lifelong friends agree to do a favor on behalf of the brash young woman they all adore.
- 2021 |
Those Who Wish Me Dead
asEthan
A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
- 2019 |
Ford v Ferrari
asLee Iacocca
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
- 2019 |
The Peanut Butter Falcon
asMark
Zak, a man with Down syndrome, runs away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a wrestler. Later, he meets with an outlaw who becomes his friend and coach.
- 2018 |
- 2017 | Pilgrimageas The Mute
- 2017 | Shot Calleras Frank 'Shotgun'
- 2017 |
- 2017 |
Baby Driver
asGriff
Coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love, and freedom.
- 2016 |
The Accountant
asBrax
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.
- 2015 |
- 2015 |
We Are Your Friends
asPaige
Caught between a forbidden romance and the expectations of his friends, aspiring DJ Cole Carter attempts to find the path in life that leads to fame and fortune.
- 2015 | Me and Earl and the Dying Girlas Mr. McCarthy
- 2014 |
- 2013 |
The Wolf of Wall Street
asBrad
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
- 2013 |
- 2011 | Rampartas Dan Morone
- 2010 | The Ghost Writeras Rick Ricardelli
- 2008 | A Line in the Sandas Banzai
- 2008 | Bar Starzas Donnie Pitron
- 2007 | Day Zeroas Dixon
- 2002 | Mary/Maryas Manny
Facts About Jon Bernthal
Baseball in…Russia? Jon Bernthal played catcher on a Russian professional baseball team while studying acting at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Nosey: Bernthal, as of 2018, had reportedly broken his nose 14 times.
Movie Picks: Jon Bernthal has noted that his favorite movies are D.C. Cab (1983), Goodfellas (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), True Romance (1993), and A Prophet (2009).
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