Jonathan Cake was born 31 August 1967, Worthing, Sussex, England is an English actor who has worked on various TV programs and series. Perhaps better known as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1997), Oswald Mosley in Mosley (1997), Japhet in the Ark of the NBC television film Noah (1999), Tyrannus in the ABC miniseries Empire (2005) and Detective Chuck Vance on the hit ABC drama Desperate Housewives (2011-2012).

He also appeared in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, jumping, the U.S. Embassy, ​​Six Degrees, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order, among other programs. His film credits include First Knight (1994), True Blue (1996), The One and Only (2002) Brideshead Revisited (2008) and Krews (2010). Cake has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and made his Broadway debut in Medea (2002). Other theatrical productions, he appeared in include The Mill on the Floss, Baby Doll by Tennessee Williams, Doubt, Coriolanus and Cymbeline.

 

 

 

His father was an importer of glass and his mother a school administrator. . Is the youngest of three son. When he was 4 years old, he was invited on stage during a traditional British pantomime for children. This exhibition ignited his interest in the performing arts. At the age of 8 years, Jonathan took acting classes and participated in the rooms. As a teenager, he toured with Britain's National Theatre in London Youth. After high school, Jonathan studied English at the University of Cambridge. He became a rugby player at the University and graduated in 1989. He attended a training program for two years at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and then trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

 

Acting career

 

In 1992, Jonathan Cake appeared in William Shakespeare's As You Like It, in a Royal Shakespeare Company production in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play was directed by David Thacker. Co-stars included Peter De Jersey, Samantha Bond, Michael Siberry, Alan Cox, Adrian Lukis, Alfred Burke, Phyllida Hancock, Anthony O'Donnell, Jeffery Dench, David Burt and John Bott. With the same actor and director, he also played the game at the Barbican Theatre in London in 1993. That same year, he co-starred with Antony Sher, Claire Benedict, Malcolm Storry, Trevor Martin and Jasper Britton in RSC production of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great. He then appeared with RSC Wallenstein, the Odyssey and the Opera beggar. In 1995, Cake acted in the production of the company's experience shared Theatre novel by George Eliot The Mill on the Floss at the Lyric Theatre in London.

Cake branched screen when he landed an appearance in the TV comedy series Gang British press in 1993. He made his first television movie appearance alongside Jasper Carrott and Ann Bryson Carrott U Like the BBC in 1994 and broke into the film world the following year with a small role in the American film First Knight, featuring Sean Connery, Richard Gere and Julia Ormond. Directed by Jerry Zucker, First Knight has received mixed reviews from critics.

After appearing in episodes of Frank Stubbs Promote and Goodnight Sweetheart, Cake was cast as Gareth in the BBC series degrees of error (1995), opposite Beth Goddard, Julian Glover and Phyllida Law. He then played Ewan in two episodes of the series Grange Hill (1996) Nat in two episodes of Cold Lazarus (1996), a four-part British drama written by Dennis Potter television and Hattersley in the TV miniseries adaptation Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996). He was also thrown into the nightlife telefilms (1996, Katrin Cartlidge and Jane Horrocks), The Girl (1996) and The Wings of Legacy (1996, with Debra Beaumont and Una Stubbs). 1996 also saw the actor in True Blue, a British sports movie based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson, and in an episode of The Thin Blue Line.

Next cake worked with Pam Ferris, James Fleet and Patrick Barlow in cows (1997), a sitcom written by Eddie Izzard and Nick Whitby, offered a memorable portrayal of Jack Favell in 1997 in the Anglo-German miniseries Rebecca which was based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier in 1938, and depicts Peter Templer in a TV miniseries adaptation of Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), starring James Purefoy, Simon Russell Beale and Paul Rhys. He also guest starred in Jonathan Creek (1997). The following year, he starred in Mosley, which was based on the life of British fascist Oswald Mosley. The series was directed by Robert Knights from a screenplay by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. He also portrayed Regan Montana, in the Diamond Girl TV movie and co-starred with Adrian Dunbar and Susan Vidler in the television series The Jump (both 1998). The actor closed the decade Japhet depicting the Ark of the NBC TV film Noah (1999), which was directed by John Irvin and played Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen. He also worked with Maria Aitken and Leslie Grantham in the British TV movie The Bench (1999).

 

 

In 2000, Andrew Stevens played Cake-Pryce in Honest, an unsuccessful comedy directed by Dave Stewart, former member of the British rock duo Eurythmics. He revisited the scene with work in Baby Doll (2000), an adaptation of Tennessee Williams film of the same name, and was awarded the prestigious Barclays Best Actor for his performance. The play performed first at the Royal National Theatre and in the West End of London.

Next cake has emerged as Randolph Cleveland in an episode of Dr. Horrible Terrible House of (2001), co-starred with Lara Belmont and Teresa Churcher in the television thriller The Swap (2002), played the role of Jack Wellington short lived Fox series The American Embassy (2002), opposite Arija Bareikis, Eric Dane, Reiko Aylesworth and David Cubitt, and was cast as Andrea in the British film The One and Only (2002), opposite Richard Roxburgh, Justine Waddell and Sharon Scurfield. Also in 2002, Cake made his Broadway debut in the lead role of Jason in Medea "by Euripides a play.

 

Next step for the cake, the actor has appeared in the Canadian television movie Riverworld (2003, starred Brad Johnson, Karen Holness and Emily Lloyd), depicts Dr. Mengele in the Showtime telefilm Out of the Ashes (2003 to alongside Christine Lahti, Beau Bridges and Richard Crenna) and depicts John Christow in the 2004 episode "The Hallow" Agatha Christie's Poirot. He then played the role of Jason Shepherd in the film (2004) Fallen, appeared as Dr. Malcolm Bowers in an episode of NBC inconceivable called "Sex, Lies and Sonograms" (2005) and portrayed Alastair Campbell in telefilm The Government Inspector (2005). He was also cast as a gladiator Tyrannus in the TV series ABC historic Empire, which took place from June 28, 2005, to July 26, 2005. Co-stars in the series included Santiago Cabrera, Vincent Regan, Emily Blunt and James Frain. Cake then had a recurring role as Roy short lived ABC drama Six Degrees (2006-07), starring Jay Hernandez, Erika Christensen, Hope Davis, Dorian Missick, Bridget Moynahan and Campbell Scott. He also appeared in an episode of Extra called "Sir Ian McKellen" (2006) and in the TV movie The Mastersons of Manhattan (2007, Marshall Crawford). Meanwhile on stage, cake played Father Flynn in Doubt by John Patrick Shanley game (2005) at the Pasadena Playhouse. He then made inCoriolanus (2006) in London theater Shakespeare Globe, and was cast in Cymbeline (2007) Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York.

 

In 2008, Cake played Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited, a film directed by Julian Jarrold which starred Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide and Hayley Atwell. He also played a role in two episodes Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The following year, he appeared as a bishop in the extraordinary Atlas ABC TV film Captain Cook, featuring Jodelle Ferland, Charlie McDermott and Hal Holbrook as Cole Barker in two episodes of the NBC series Chuck "Chuck Versus the Beefcake "and" Chuck Versus the Lethal Weapon "and as Marcus Woll in episodes" Boy Gone Astray "and" In Defense "Law & Order.

 

In 2010, teamed up with Cake Colter Allison, China Anderson and Pedro Miguel Arce in Krews of American cinema by Hilbert Hakim. The same year, he also played Mark Easterbrook in the TV movie Marple: The Pale Horse, starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple.