Biography
Jonathan was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Richard and Lise Holeton. He grew up in St.Paul,Alberta with his sister Sarah. He grew up as an artist, always drawing and doing water color paintings. He discovered the magic of acting when his grade 9 French Class wrote a French play, entitled "Gare a la Gare", which they presented in New Brunswick while on a school exchange.
Then in grade 10-12, he started shooting short comedy video skits with his friends, called "Friday Knights", inspired by SCTV and SNL.
Then after graduating highschool in 1994, he moved to Vancouver,BC with his friend Real to go to Multimedia college where he learned more about filming and did more acting.
Then in 1995 he helped the highschool drama group at L'Ecole Maurice Lavallee, where he played the lead in the play the students wrote "Crepuscules de ma Vie", which won best play at Festival Theatre jeunesse in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where Jonathan won best lead male actor.
In, 1996, he started going to University of Alberta, doing a Bachelor of Arts, major in Philosophy and minor in Drama. He participated in many french and english plays, he remembers fondly playing the little Prince in "Le Petit Prince" directed by Pierre Bokor.
He got into acting in television and film in 1996 when he met Janet Powers, who cast him in his very first professional video, "Driver's AMA video" directed by John Spooner. He got to work with Mr. Spooner again a few weeks later for a Sega Channel commercial.
He has worked on many shows as a background performer. His first break would be when he acted in "Kinmel Park Riots", which was on the History channel, along side actor Donovan Workun and Eric Johnson.
His next break would be acting as a limo driver/dj on the APTN show "Mixed Blessings", along side the cast of the show.
In 2012, Jonathan and his friend Chris Cowden, produced a short movie together, entitled "Predict This!", which Chris wrote, directed,acted and did most of the vfx, Jonathan did a little bit of vfx, as well as acted.
Jonathan is developing his children character "Berry Blue Bunny", is in development of his feature film "PotHoles" and writing 2 other scripts, the scifi, "Time Drifters of the Eternal Now" and a family film tentatively called, "A Godfather".
