Johnathon
Schaech,
a born storyteller, is an accomplished and award winning actor, writer,
director and producer. He.was born September 10 1969 in
Edgewood, Maryland USA, and is the only son of Joanne and Joseph
Schaech. His father was a beat cop in Baltimore City. He also
has a sister Renee.
When Johnathon was 19 he left the University of Maryland and moved to
Los Angeles - driven by a need for a defining purpose in life.
He
started by studying with acting legend Roy London for four years until
he landed the lead role in Franco Zefferelli's film Storia Di Una Capinera (Sparrow).
He also trained in voice, dialect and posture with RADA
(Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art) in London and studied with the Actor's Studio
in New York. After Roy's tragic death in 1993, Johnathon went
on
to study with Cameron Thor and remains there to
this day.
Johnathon was also a part of the Electric Theatre Company in
LA.
In 1994 after almost a year filming in Europe, Johnathon landed plum
roles in Jocelyn Moorehouse'sHow To Make An
American Quilt opposite Winona Ryder and Greg Araki's cult
classic The Doom
Generation.
Hollywood
then started taking notice...!!!
Tom Hanks cast him as the lead rocker in another cult classic That
Thing You Do.
He then took the lead role opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and
Jessica Lange in the thriller Hush.
After these studio films, Vanity Fair announced he was a leading man to
watch out for - but Johnathon chose to back away from the limelight -
taking roles in Independent films such as Greg Araki'sSplendorand Stephan
Elliott's Welcome To Woop Woop. He then
chose roles that allowed him to work with other great actors such as
Kenneth Branagh in How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog,
Harvey Keitel in Finding Graceland
and Ray Winstone and Guy Pearce in Woundings
(Brand New World). Shortly after,
Johnathon went on to play the title roles in Pen Densham's Houdini
and Tom Fontana's Judas.
Johnathon recently appeared opposite Heather Locklear in Nora
Robert's Angels Fall,
where he not only sizzled and smouldered on the screen, but won the
hearts of around 5 million viewers.
Always in pursuit of meaning, Johnathon partnered up with long time
friend Richard
Chizmar(Cemetery
Dance Publications) and the pair formed their film production
company Chesapeake Films
- in which they have found success adapting novels into screenplays for
the likes of Stephen King, Akiva Goldsman, SONY and MGM. Last year they
also wrote the screenplay for the now classic The Washingtonians
which is a fan favourite of Showtime's Masters of Horror Series
- Season 2.
Johnathon has trained in boxing and taekwondo and is currently studying
Krav Maga.
Johnathon is currently
back in Hollywood working on his next project
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Writtensuccessful
screenplays
The Circle - Lewis Shiner
Eater - Peter
Crowthernovel
Black House - Stephen
King novel
From a Buick8 - Stephen King novel
The Poker Club -Ed Gorman novel
The Washingtonians - Bentley Little novel
The Hour Before Dark - Douglas Clegg novel Road House 2 -
originalscript
Heroes - Short filmfeaturing Djimon Hounsou
Miserable Comforters - Winner
- Best Feature Film
- New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2001
Starred opposite award
winning
actors Including
Mena Suvari, Matthew Modine, Brad Renfro, Columbus Short,
Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Brittany Snow, Judy Reyes, Lori
Heuring, Johnny
Messner, Loren Dean, Heather Locklear, Will Patton, Jake Busey, Clifton
Collins Jr, Tamara Braun, Tom
Hanks, Jeffrey Tambor, David Arquette,
Vanessa Redgrave, Winona Ryder, Ann Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Rose
McGowan, Alyssa Milano, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Rod Taylor, Gwyneth
Paltrow, Jessica Lange, Harvey Keitel, Bridget Fonda, George Segal,
Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Natasha Henstridge, Lauren
Hutton, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Garner, Brooke Shields,
Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright Penn, Lynn Redgrave, Jamie Kennedy, James
Caan, Lisa Lackey, Jennifer Beals, Djimon Hounsou, Burt Young, Tim
Matheson, Hal Holbrook, Emile Hirsch and many many others ......
Worked
with award winning
directors, producers and writers IncludingTim McCann (The
Poker Club), Drew
& John Erick Dowdle (Quarantined, The Poughkeepsie
Tapes), Pepe Bojorquez
(Sea of Dreams), Jace
Johnson & Bethany Ashton Wolf (Little Chenier), Richard Jefferies
(Living Hell, Cold Creek Manor) Nelson
McCormick (Prom Night) Peter
Medak (The Washingtonians), JS
Cardone (Prom Night, Mummy
an' the Armadillo, The Forsaken, 8MM 2), Tom Fontana (Judas,
OZ), Greg Araki
(Splendor, Doom Generation), Pen
Densham (Houdini, Alienshop - Outer Limits, Tank Girl ), Stephan Elliott
(Welcome to Woop Woop, The Adventures of Priscilla-Queen of the Desert,
Tom Hanks
(That Thing You Do), Jocelyn
Moorhouse (How To Make An American Quilt), Richard Friedenberg (Suzanne's
Diary for Nicholas), James
Patterson (Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Along Came a
Spider, Kiss the Girls), Stephen
King (Black House, From A Buick 8, The Green Mile, The
Shining, The Shawshank Redemption), Nora
Roberts (Angels Fall), Carl Franklin
(Partners, The Riches), Kiefer
Sutherland (Fallen Angels, 24, The Lost Boys), Sean Penn (21
grams, Mystic River), Bruce
Campbell (Brisco County Jr, Evil Dead, Spiderman 1/2/3)
and Franco
Zeffirelli (Sparrow).
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Message
from Johnathon Schaech
on Barack Obama - February 2008
Exclusive
interview with Johnathon and Richard Chizmar
discussing their Fear
Itself episode Eater which debuted on NBC July 3, 2008
This interview is courtesy of Scott Lester, Executive Producer of the Jojo and Reagan Show on MIX 106.5 FM Baltimore LISTEN HERE
Current
projects for 2008
The Circle NBCTV Fear Itself Episode
Co starring Ashley Scott
Filming completed
(read the storyHERE)
Sex
and Lies in Sin City
Co
starring Mena Suravi
Matthew Modine and Marsha Gay Harden
Filming Completed
Currently showing in cinemas
Worldwide
DVD
AVAILABLE NOW...!!!
DVD
AVAILABLE NOW...!!!
DVD release date TBA
Quarantine
In Theatres October 17 2008
Recently sold to Sony
Will be released on DVD
Sony have television rights
Release date TBA
Television debut July 3 2008 NBCTV Fear Itself - Episode
- Eater
Written by Johnathon
and Richard
Chizmar
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