Jon Paul Phillips

Jon Paul Phillips
Phillips at the 2012 Austin Film Festival in Austin, Texas
Born	Jon-Paul Phillips (1980-03-27) March 27, 1980 Darlington, UK
Residence	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present

Jon Paul David Phillips (born March 27, 1980) is an English actor of English, Russian and Mexican descent. Born and raised in County Durham in the north of England, he is the great-grandson of Mexican painter Diego Rivera and Russian-born Cubist painter Marie Vorobieff.

Phillips' grandmother, Marika Rivera, starred in the original Fiddler on the Roof directed by Norman Jewison, The Girl on a Motorcycle alongside Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull, and later in Federico Fellini's Casanova.

He made his feature debut in a leading role as Jake in the independent film, X/Y, directed by Ryan Piers Williams, portraying a flawed but loyal young man who guides his lost friend through the murky waters of his own journey toward self-discovery.^[1]

Phillips previous work includes supporting roles in the films Kilimanjaro directed by Walter Strafford and Ass Backwards directed by Chris Nelson.

He was originally cast in Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion, however due to scheduling issues was unable to take his role which was subsequently cut from the film. Phillips later acted as stand-in for Jude Law on table reads for Soderbergh's Side Effects.

Phillips starred alongside Abigail Spencer in a television spot for Audi entitled "Suspect."^[2] The commercial aired at the 2012 Emmy Awards, an Audi-sponsored event and introduced the NFL season on NBC.^[3]

Phillips currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, and has called the United States his home since 2005.

Filmography

Kept (2016)
X/Y (2014)
Kilimanjaro (2013)
Ass Backwards (2013)

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