Jon Bernthal

Jonathan E. "Jon" Bernthal (born September 20, 1976) is an American actor, best known for his role as Shane Walsh on the AMC television series The Walking Dead.

Jon Bernthal was raised in Washington D.C. He 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 Repretory 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. He now lives in Venice, California with his dog, Boss. He has also appeared on the 2010 HBO television series, The Pacific and has appeared in a number of films such as Ghost Writer (2010) and Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian (2009).

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He is a cousin of professional wrestler Kurt Angle.