Film & TV
Film credits include the lead role in Lucid, which made its world premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and won the City TV Award for 'Best Western Canadian Film' at the 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival. Jonas also has a co-starring role opposite Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects) in Seven Times Lucky, which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Seven Times Lucky won the awards for 'Best Feature Film' and 'Best Screenplay' at the 2004 Methodfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and the City TV Award for 'Best Western Canadian Film' at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival. Jonas made his feature film debut by co-developing and starring in Sean Garrity's Inertia, which won the City TV Award for 'Best First Feature Film' at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and for which he won a Blizzard Award for 'Best Performance by a Leading Actor'.
Currently, Jonas can be seen weekly as 'Slade' on the new fast-paced hit CBC drama The Border, nominated for 10 Gemini Awards in 2008, including a win for Jonas in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series. In recent years, Jonas has been featured in several television projects including recurring roles in the CBC smash hit comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie and on Ken Finkleman's Gemini Award-winning CBC series At the Hotel; CBS's Mayday; the Lifetime movies Intimate Stranger, Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story and Recipe for a Perfect Christmas; Disney's Eloise at the Plaza in which he co-starred opposite Julie Andrews; FX's Emmy-nominated The Pentagon Papers; Showtime's Emmy-nominated Last Call; and CBS's The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron. In 2003, Jonas was a member of the ensemble cast of CTV's hour-long drama The Eleventh Hour, which won the 2003 Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series. Recent television guest appearances include 'Til Death do us Part (Global/Court TV), This is Wonderland (CBC), The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (YTV), Queer as Folk (Showtime), Doc (PAX), Mutant X (Sci-Fi) and Earth: Final Conflict (Sci-Fi).
Other films in which Jonas is featured include The Glow (Fox), Cowboys and Indians: The Killing of J.J. Harper (CBC), Chasing Cain: Face, A Woman Is A Helluva Thing, Nostradamus, Life in a Day, Paid In Full (2003 Independent Spirit Award nominee), Edge of Madness, and an appearance in the cult classic Careful, directed by Canadian legend Guy Maddin.
