Jonathan Wilson

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Jonathan Wilson is a Canadian actor, voice artist, comedian, and playwright, best known for his 1996 play My Own Private Oshawa. The play, a semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa, Ontario, was also optioned by Sandra Faires SFA Productions for production as a film, which won an award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival in 2002 before premiering as a television movie on CTV in 2005.Wilson was a member of The Second Citys Toronto cast in the early 1990s. He later collaborated with fellow Second City alumni Kathy Greenwood and Ed Sahely on the stage show Not to Be Repeated, in which the three performed a two-act improvisational narrative comedy play in each performance. The show was also later developed into a short-run television series, This Sitcom Is...Not to Be Repeated, for The Comedy Network in 2001.Wilsons other acting credits include voice roles in Mia and Me, Little Bear, Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, Totally Spies!, Skatoony, Camp Lakebottom, Yin Yang Yo!, Get Ed, BeyWheelz, Iggy Arbuckle, Miss Spiders Sunny Patch Friends, recurring roles in Traders, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye and This Is Wonderland, film roles in House, Saint Ralph, New York Minute, PCU, Rubber Carpet and Brain Candy, and stage productions of The Laramie Project, The Lion King, and The Normal Heart. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role - Play or Musical for his performance as Timon in The Lion King.

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