Jonathon Young
Jonathon Young is a Canadian actor best known for his role of Nikola Tesla on the SyFy show Sanctuary. Appearances include The Fog, Eureka, and Stargate Atlantis. Jonathon is a well-respected stage actor. He is the co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre in Vancouver, Canada in which he is also the artistic director, playwright and a frequently acts.
He was raised in British Columbia, along with his brother and sister. Their father was a school teacher who also started a community theatre in Armstrong, British Columbia. At a Q&A after "No Exit", Jonathon Young said that his father often brought him and his sister to watch him act and that this is where his love for theatre began. Becoming an actor was never a choice, but rather just something he knew he was going to do.
Jonathon is a graduate of the Studio 58 theatre school at Vancouver’s Langara College. In 1996 he co-founded the Electric Company Theatre along with fellow Studio 58 alumni Kim Collier, David Hudgins, and Kevin Kerr. He is a three-time winner of the Jessie Richardson Award. His play Palace Grand was commissioned for production by Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008.
Young is married to actor/director Kim Collier.
Acting
TV
The Flash
as Dr. Olsen
2014
Movie
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
as Duncan
2005
TV
Stargate Atlantis
as Dr. Parrish
2004
Movie
The Fog
as Dan The Weatherman
2005
TV
Eureka
as Dr. Ethan Edison
2006
Movie
Antitrust
as Stinky
2001
TV
Taken
as Slide
2002
Movie
A Guy Thing
as Bachelor Party Guy
2003
TV
Sanctuary
as Nikola Tesla
2008
TV
The Outer Limits
as Billy
1995
TV
The Outer Limits
as Young Man
1995
Movie
Alien Trespass
as Lloyd
2009
Movie
Chain of Fools
as Poet Reader
2001
Movie
Nightwatching
as Visscher
2007
Movie
Firestorm
as Sherman
1998
Movie
Christmas Icetastrophe
as Neil
2014
TV
Impastor
as Detective Hyde
2015
Movie
Trixie
as Gas Attendant
2000
Movie
Eadweard
as Eakins
2015
Movie
Control Alt Delete
as Sanderson
2010
Movie
Principal Takes a Holiday
as Librarian
1998
Movie
Revisor
as Revisor (voice)
2020
TV
Jake and The Kid
as Troy
1995
Movie
Betroffenheit from Sadler's Wells
as Performer
2017