Jonny Bliss
- Actor
Born and raised in Michigan, he is of Irish and English descent, with a
bit of German and Czechoslovakian. He began his professional training
at the NSPA and studied theatre. Early on, as a character actor, he
played Fred Casley, in Bob Fosse, Chicago,
Jaime, in Eugene O'Neill, Long Days
Journey Into Night, Burton, in
Lanford Wilson, Burn This, Sidney Lipton,
in Neil Simon, God's Favorite,
Officer Klein, in Joseph Kesselring,
Arsenic & Old Lace, and John, in
Brian Clark, Whose Life Is It
Anyway. Shortly after, he won a
'Best Actor award', for his portrayal of
Ben, in the comedy, Who's On first, by Jack Sharkey. Transitioning from
theatre into TV & Film, he's worked alongside
Bill Paxton,
Kirstie Alley,
Gary Busey,
Stephen Baldwin,
Martin Landau,
Michael Ironside,
John Larroquette,
Alan Thicke and
Sam J. Jones. For almost a decade
he took a "sabbatical" from TV & Film but has found his path once
again. During the holidays you can find him in Hollywood feeding the
homeless his own brown bag lunches.