Jon Bernthal

Jonathan Edward "Jon" Bernthal (born September 20, 1976) is an American actor best known for his television role as Shane Walsh on the AMC series The Walking Dead and film roles in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Fury (2014), Sicario (2015), The Accountant (2016), Baby Driver (2017), & Wind River (2017). He portrayed LAPD Detective Joe Teague in Mob City and Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher) in the Netflix series Daredevil, and is set to reprise the latter role in the Netflix series The Punisher. 2Early life Bernthal was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to Joan Lurie (née Marx) and Eric Lawrence "Rick" Bernthal, a lawyer with Latham & Watkins LLP. His paternal grandfather was musician and producer Murray Bernthal. He has two brothers, Nicholas and Thomas. His family is Jewish. After high school, Bernthal studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, but later dropped out. At the advice of Alma Becker, his acting teacher at Skidmore, Bernthal went on to attend the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. During his time there, he played catcher on a semi-professional baseball team. 2Career Bernthal was discovered by the executive director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied as a non-degree student and completed his studies in 200