Jon Jacobs

"British born Jon Jacobs has acted in over two dozen fascinating, maddening and distinctive feature films.. the result is a stylish, varied, highly imaginative body of work that has garnered heaps of prizes and recognition. Jacobs is overall an artist very much worth discovering." F.X Feeney - LA Weekly. Jon attended The Phildene Stage School in 1977 and Sylvia Young's Theater School in 1981. Jon secured his British Equity membership after being cast by Alan Clarke in "Stars of the Roller State Disco". Jon made his stage debut at the Young Vic Theatre in 1986 playing General La Terre in "Napoleon Noir" directed by James Marcus that year he also made his screen debut in the short film Salette (1986) which was shot by Cinematographer David Tattersall. Jon followed up by directing and acting in three more short films with Tattersall Metropolis Apocalypse (1988), Moonlight Resurrection (1988) and Sleepwalker (1993) Metropolis Apocalypse was an official selection at the Cannes film Festival in 1988. Jon's first lead role in a feature film was in the much praised Welcome Says the Angel (1996) Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times selected the film as Best of the Weekend and raved that the characters were "Beautifully played by Jacobs and Hauer", Jon played the title role in Hungarian Film Week Winner Johnny Famous (2000) and directed and starred in the audacious Festival hit Lucinda's Spell (1998). In 2002 Jon created the Iconic "Neverdie" avatar inside the online game Entropia Universe, Neverdie made video game history and has became one of the most influential Avatars in online multiplayer video games. In 2005 Jon co-directed and starred as DJ Hound Dog in the Musical Comedy DJ Hound Dog (2003) featuring a line up of many of the worlds top international DJ's. Jon co-wrote the songs and provided Vocals for the DJ Hound Dog Soundtrack album and also for another album "No Rock uN Rolled" under his Avatar name Neverdie. Jon won the outstanding performance award at the 2019 Method Fest film festival playing Walt Warshaw in William Wayne's acclaimed thriller Lost Angelas (2019). In 2020 Jon starred in Julie Pacino's Harmony in Gold (2021) and in EuroTrash opposite Hollywood Legend Gregory Peck's grandson Zackary Peck in his screen debut. in 2021 Jon will be seen portraying celebrated indie film producer Cassian Elwes in "Passenger C" based on a true story written and directed by Cassian Elwes