Jon Paul Phillips

Jon Paul Phillips

Phillips at the 2012 Austin Film Festival in Austin, Texas
Born Jon-Paul Phillips
(1980-03-27) March 27, 1980
Darlington, UK
Residence Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 2010–present

Jon Paul David Phillips (born March 27, 1980) is an English actor. Born and raised in County Durham in the north of England, he attended the prestigious[1] rugby school Barnard Castle School. He is of English, Russian and Mexican descent and is the great-grandson of Mexican painter Diego Rivera and Russian-born Cubist painter Marie Vorobieff.

Phillips' grandmother, Marika Rivera, starred in the original Fiddler on the Roof directed by Norman Jewison, The Girl on a Motorcycle alongside Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull, and later in Federico Fellini's Casanova.[2]

He made his feature debut in a leading role as Jake in the independent film, X/Y, directed by Ryan Piers Williams, portraying a flawed but loyal young man who guides his lost friend through the murky waters of his own journey toward self-discovery.[3]

Phillips previous work includes supporting roles in the films Kilimanjaro directed by Walter Strafford and Ass Backwards directed by Chris Nelson.

Phillips starred alongside Abigail Spencer in a television spot for Audi entitled "Suspect."[4] The commercial aired at the 2012 Emmy Awards, an Audi-sponsored event and introduced the NFL season on NBC.[5]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Barnard Castle School celebrates rugby glory". Independent Education Today. June 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Fellini, Federico (2006). Federico Fellini: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. xxxiii.
  3. ↑ CineVue's Edinburgh 2014: 'X/Y' review
  4. ↑ Audi S8 TV Commercial - "Suspect"
  5. ↑ Creativity Online: Editor's Pick

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