Biography
Actor, model, and producer, and author of six books, Jeff Joslin is a former professional football player, and two-time national champion quarterback at Carson-Newman College. In 2006, after being laid off from medical equipment job, he entered the entertainment business, moved to New York City and became a quick success. National print campaigns for Lipitor, Bermuda Tourism, Biltmore House led to commercial roles for Barron's, Bermuda Tourism and Cialis which launched Joslin to television and movie roles.
A native of Knoxville, Tenn., Jeff was a star quarterback at Farragut High School and signed to play at the University of Tennessee along with former NFL legends such as Reggie White, Bill Bates and Willie Gault. He transferred to Carson-Newman College in nearby Jefferson City, Tenn., to be with his former high school coach, Ken Sparks. There, they won back-to-back NAIA national titles in 1983-'84 with Joslin being named honorable mention all-America. Later, he was selected to the Carson-Newman "Team of the Century."
Joslin played in the Canadian Football League with Toronto, Saskatchewan and Ottawa, and then served as a director with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. A second-degree Black Belt in TaeKwonDo, Joslin created X-Treme Team, a martial arts live program for middle and high school students that performed over 150 live shows worldwide, including a numerous street performances in Sydney during the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games. Martial arts organically led Joslin to train as a stuntman and under Scott Leva of Precision Stunts, one of Hollywood's top stunt coordinator.
Joslin has appeared in several TV shows such as Drop Dead Diva, Army Wives, Murder In Manhattan, Faking It and recently some top films such as Carjacked with Maria Bello and Madea's Witness Protection as Tyler Perry's boss.
Joslin is founder of 3 Legged Dog Productions and Double J Productions, an indie film company to produce his own purpose driven projects of interest along with inspirational films.
In 2012, Joslin relocated to the West Coast to work Los Angeles market and be closer to his oldest sons. The oldest, Jeffrey Joslin II, is an accomplished musician, writer, performer who is also acting and modeling. His middle son, Justice Joslin, is a former pro football receiver and now with the Ford modeling agency now appearing in commercials, TV and film around the world. The youngest, Javan Joslin, located to Bali to work on commercial projects.
On 10/30/2018, Jeff suffered a stroke and he lost his memory and speech. Two weeks later, he booked two commercial jobs and then later booked 30+ commercials, many with dialog and with teleprompter jobs during 2019. Jeff relocated to Knoxville 7/2019 to continue his work in commercials, TV and film. His team just finished with an award winning documentary, Sparks-The Ken Sparks Story. It was to honor his high school and college coach, Ken Sparks On January 7th, 2022, it had a limited theatrical release in Regal, Phoenix and Princess Theater for 28 days. His team is in development for the narrative feature film, It Only Takes A Spark, a true story about Ken Sparks.
