Biography for
Jonathan Jackson (I)

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Date of Birth

11 May 1982, Orlando, Florida, USA

Birth Name

Jonathan Stevens Jackson

Nickname

J.J, Jon
Jono

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Mini Biography

Jonathan was born in Florida and his family moved to Washington state when he was very young. He started pursuing acting at the age of nine when he and his family visited L.A. for a vacation. His brother, Richard Lee Jackson, started acting first and he followed. Soon after, Jonathan landed a Corn Pops commercial. After that, Jonathan received the role of a lifetime: playing Lucas "Lucky" Spencer on the Emmy Award winning soap, "General Hospital" (1963). Jonathan has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and has won three of them for his protrayal of Lucky Spencer. Jonathan left "General Hospital" last year to focus on his movie career.

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Mini Biography

A resident of Washington state, Jonathan gave serious thought to an acting career following a family visit to Universal Studios Hollywood in 1991. His older brother, Richard, made the first move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a performing career, and Jonathan and his mother soon followed. Jonathan got a few commercials under his belt before he was chosen, from several hundred young hopefuls, for the sought-after role of Lucky Spencer. His first airdate was October 29, 1993. Additionally, Jonathan recently made his feature film debut starring in the summer comedy, Camp Nowhere (1994). Although acting is his favorite activity, Jonathan also participates in most sports, including basketball, baseball and rollerblading. He also enjoys playing the guitar. Jonathan, his mother, brother and sister divide their time between homes in the Los Angeles area and Washington state, where his father resides permanently.

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Jonathan Jackson was born in 1982 and grew up in Washington state with his older brother Richard Lee and his older sister Candice. His father, Rick Lee was a doctor and his mother was a homemaker and office manager. After a family trip to Universal Studios when Jonathan was 9, he and his brother both got bitten by the acting bug. His parents decided to let their sons try their luck in acting for 6 months, and so Jonathan and Richard moved down to Los Angeles with their mother while Rick Lee stayed back in Washington with Candice. Within a few months, Jonathan landed a contract role on the soap opera "General Hospital" as Luke and Laura's son, Lucky Spencer. He stayed on the soap opera for 6 years as the original Lucky, garnering 6 Daytime Emmy nominations and 3 Daytime Emmys for Younger Actor along the way. While shooting the soap, Jackson also made 5 movies. His film debut was with Christopher Lloyd in 1994's "Camp Nowhere." He also made two TV movies, "The Legend of the Ruby Silver" and "Prisoner of Zenda, Inc" in 1996. In 1997 he took time from the soap to shoot what would become his breakthrough film role as Michelle Pfeiffer's troubled son Vincent in "The Deep End of the Ocean." In 1998, he filmed several episodes for the ABC series "Boy Meets World." In 1999, he again took a short break from GH to film a supporting role in the independent film "True Rights."

After leaving the soap in 1999, Jackson was cast in a variety of films. At one point, he was considered the favorite to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars films. He has played son to Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Treat Williams, JoBeth Williams, Barbara Hershey and Judy Davis, and romantic interest to Alexis Bledel, Carly Pope, Erika Christensen, Romolai Garai and Agnes Bruckner. He has also played brother to Brian Austin Green and best friend to Cillian Murphy and Nick Stahl, and has also shared the screen with Al Pacino, David Arquette and Ben Kingsley. He was also cast in Walden Media's "The Dark is Rising" but his scenes were cut before the film was released.

Jackson's other abiding passion has been his music. He has been the lead singer and guitarist in a number of bands, most recently for Enation. Jonathan first sang his own work on "General Hospital" and his music has since been featured in a number of his movies.

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Spouse

Lisa Vultaggio

(21 June 2002 - present) 2 children

Trivia

He is a vegetarian.

Has a brother, actor-musician Richard Lee Jackson and a sister, Candace Jackson.

Sister Candace Jackson used to act and is now a lawyer.

Has a band, Scarlet Road, with his brother, father and uncle.

Plays guitar.

Fences with his brother and used to fence with Taran Noah Smith of "Home Improvement" when they worked on the same ABC lot.

He wanted to be a professional baseball player when he was younger.

Father is a former fireman who ran for a political position in Washington State.

Newsweek magazine claimed that Jonathan was a sureshot for the role of Anakin Skywalker. The role ended up going to his Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000) (TV) co-star, Hayden Christensen.

Jon's father, Ricky Lee, is a dermatologist. His mother, Jeanine, is a homemaker.

Graduated high school when he was 16.

In 1993 and 1994, Jonathan won the Hollywood Youngstar Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series, also due to his portrayal of Lucky a.k.a. Lukas Lorenzo Spencer Jr.

Was named one of the '50 Most Beautiful People in the World' by People Magazine in 1999.

He attended the ABC Kids N Teens acting and modeling program.

Announced his engagement to former GH co-star Lisa Vultaggio.

Changed his band's name to Jono & The Rock (referring to his and his brother's nicknames).

Changed his band's name again from Jono and the Rock to Enation. [2003]

Son, Caleb Jackson, born June 21, 2003, which was also the one year anniversary of his marriage to actress Lisa Vultaggio.

Sister Candice used to act and is now in law school.

Daughter Adora Jackson was born in September 2005.

Over the years, Jackson has been cast in two movies that lost their funding half-way through shooting: "The New Kid" in 1994 and "Six Wire Winter" in 2003. "The New Kid" also co-starred his brother, Richard Lee Jackson, and would have been Jonathan's film debut, but the movie lost funding and was never released. "Six Wire Winter" was to co-star Willie Nelson, but funding fell through and shooting was halted.

Where Are They Now

(February 2007) Lead singer of the band Enation, which just released the album "Where the Fire Starts"

(February 2007) Filming "The Dark is Rising" in Romania.

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