Jonah Hauer-King
Birthdate: May 30, 1995
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Jonah Hauer-King (birthname: Jonah Andre Hauer-King) is a rising young British-American actor who has displayed his range from period dramas to musicals. After early stage roles (including at the Lyric Belfast and in Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival), as well as acting in short films from 2014 to 2016, Hauer-King was cast in his debut feature role by star-director Danny Huston in The Last Photograph (2017), based on screenwriter Simon Astaire’s novel about the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie terror disaster, and co-starring Sarita Choudhury and Stacy Martin, and shortlisted for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature; it was released in the U.S. by Freestyle in 2019, and in 2021 in the U.K., a full four years after it premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Hauer-King scored a major supporting role in writer-director Steve McLean’s drama, Postcards from London (2018), starring Harris Dickinson, Richard Durden, and Silas Carson. Jonah Hauer-King then co-starred in the school-age version of Cyrano de Bergerac, the Film4-produced Old Boys (2018), with Alex Lawther and Pauline Etienne. Hauer-King’s first major starring role was in the Marius A. Markevicius-directed, U.S.-Lithuanian-produced Ashes in the Snow (2018), with Bel Powley, and premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Hauer-King’s first starring role in a Hollywood studio movie (Columbia Pictures) was the family adventure movie, A Dog’s Way Home (2019), directed by Charles Martin Smith; starring Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Wes Studi, and Bryce Dallas Howard; and grossing a solid $80.7 million globally on an $18 million budget. After the Canadian drama, The Song of Names (2019), co-starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen (but never released in the U.S.), Hauer-King co-starred in writer-director James DeMonaco’s poorly-reviewed drama for Blumhouse/Universal Pictures, This is the Night (2021), co-starring Frank Grillo, Lucius Hoyos, Bobby Cannavale, and Naomi Watts.
Jonah Hauer-King landed his biggest role to date as co-star of Disney’s live-action musical version of The Little Mermaid (2023), directed by Rob Marshall, with new songs by co-producer Lin-Manuel Miranda (two of them sung by Hauer-King), and co-starring Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, and Javier Bardem; the film earned a 59 Metacritic score.
Hauer-King co-starred as Giacomo Casanova opposite Zar Zuzovsky in the Michiel van Erp-directed, Dutch-Belgian-Italian co-production, A Beautiful Imperfection (date to be announced), and based on Arthur Japin’s book, In Lucia’s Eyes. Hauer-King next co-starred in writer-director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s U.S.-Colombian-produced virus thriller, Rich Flu (2023), with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lorraine Bracco, Timothy Spall, and Rafe Spall.
Personal Details
Jonah Hauer-King was born and raised in London by parents Debra Hauer (U.S.-born psychotherapist and theater producer) and Jeremy King (U.K.-born restauranteur). Hauer-King has two sisters. Hauer-King’s Polish Jewish maternal grandparents departed Warsaw in the 1930s before the Nazi Germany invasion, emigrated to Toronto, and settled in Walnut Creek, California, where Debra Hauer was born.
Because of his parents’ nationalities, Hauer-King has joint U.K. and U.S. citizenship. Hauer-King studied at Eton College, and after graduation, he attended Cambridge University’s St. John’s College, graduating with a first-class degree in religious studies and theology. As a young stage actor, Hauer-King performed in Northern Ireland at Lyric Belfast and in Scotland, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he was discovered and signed by an agent. Hauer-King’s height is 6’ 1¾ ”.
Filmography
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- 2023 | The Little MermaidasEric
The Little Mermaid
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
- 2019 | A Dog’s Way HomeasLucas
A Dog’s Way Home
A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness.
- 2018 | Postcards from LondonasDavid
Postcards from London
A stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.
Some Facts About Jonah Hauer-King
The Face of Progress: Jonah Hauer-King was selected as one of London’s most influential people in 2016, 2017, and 2018 by the (London) Evening Standard’s annual survey, Progress 1000.
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