"Jon Bernthal"

Jonathan Edward "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.

Bernthal was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is the son of Joan Lurie (née Marx) and Eric Lawrence "Rick" Bernthal, a lawyer with Latham & Watkins LLP. He has two brothers, Nicholas "Nick" Matthew Bernthal and Thomas "Tom" Bernthal. He is the grandson of the late musician and producer Murray Bernthal. He graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington. After high school, he studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and later attended The School of Moscow Art Theatre, in Moscow, Russia. During his time there, he also played professional baseball in the European Professional Baseball Federation (Confédération Européenne de Baseball).

He was discovered by the director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was invited to study for his master's degree there. He graduated in 2002 from the American Repertory Theatre with a Master of Fine Arts.

Since 2002, he has performed in over 30 plays regionally and off-Broadway, including many with his own award-winning theatre company Fovea Floods. He starred on the CBS sitcom The Class from 2006 through 2007.

Bernthal portrayed Shane Walsh in Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, based on the American comic book series of the same name, for two seasons from 2010 to 2012 before his character was killed off to coincide with the source material. He was nominated for the Breakout Performance - Male award at the 2011 Scream Awards for his performance. Upon his departure, he was cast as Joe Teague in L.A. Noir, Darabont's pilot for TNT.

Bernthal is married to Erin, who is the niece of professional wrestler Kurt Angle. He is a cousin of Adam Schlesinger who performs with the band Fountains of Wayne. Together with his brother Nicholas "Nick" Matthew Bernthal, who is an orthopaedic surgeon at UCLA, they help run a nonprofit organization called "Drops Fills Buckets", founded by his brother Nicholas and Gareth Schweitzer, which they claim has "an impact-driven, entrepreneurial approach to making a difference."

Filmography

List of acting performances in film and television
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Mary/Mary	Manny
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Lane Ruddock	Episode “Malignant”
2004	Tony n' Tina's Wedding	Dominic
	Without a Trace	Alex Genya	Episode “Bait”
	Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman	Man in Office	TV movie
	Dr. Vegas	Greg	Episode “Dead Man, Live Bet”
	Boston Legal	Michael Shea	Episode “Questionable Characters
2005	Jonny Zero	Brett Parish	Episode “I Did It All for the Nooky”
	CSI: Miami	Harry Klugman	Episodes “Killer Date” and “Vengeance”
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Sherm Hempell	Episode “Goliath”
	How I Met Your Mother	Carlos	Episode “Purple Giraffe”
2006	World Trade Center	Christopher Amoroso
2006-2007	The Class	Duncan Carmello	19 episodes
2007	The Air I Breathe	Interviewer
	Day Zero	Dixon
2008	Courtroom K	Fackler	TV movie
	Bar Starz	Donnie Pitron
	A Line in the Sand	Banzai
2009	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Al Capone
2009-2010	Eastwick	Raymond Gardener	12 episodes
2010	The Ghost Writer	Rick Ricardelli
	Numb3rs	Mike Nash	Episode “Growin’ Up”
	The Pacific	Sgt. Manuel Rodriguez	Episodes “Guadalcanal/Leckie” and “Basilone”
	Date Night	Young Man
2010-2012	The Walking Dead	Shane Walsh	Main cast season 1 and 2
2011	Last Words	Jennings	Short video
	Rampart	Dan Morone
2012	Harry's Law
	L.A. Noir	Joe Teague	TV movie - Post-production
2013	Snitch		Post-production
	42	Ralph Branca	Pre-Production

Source : en.wikipedia.org