Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jacksonis an American actor, musician and author. His first well known character was Lucky Spencer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital, a role which has won him five Emmy Awards. In 2002, he played Jesse Tuck in the film Tuck Everlasting. In 2004 he started the band Enationwith his brother, actor Richard Lee Jackson and friend Daniel Sweatt. In 2012 he got the role of Avery Barkley in the ABC prime time drama Nashville...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth11 May 1982
CountryUnited States of America
God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.
As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.
I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'
My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting.
I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.
For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.
I wouldn't say it's fallen off any. We still have some great players on the field.
He's basically a very optimistic, joyful type of guy who really wants to enjoy life, ... Peter Pan character.
When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.
We had all the funds and everything agreed, and then someone came in and bought it for $12 million and literally did it overnight.
Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
Approximately half of the serious eye injuries from fireworks resulted in severe loss in the affected eye.
In the last six months, there has been phenomenal interest. I'd say it's already too late -- everything has been sold.
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.