Film & TV
Jonas's most recent film, The Burning Season, which he produced, co-wrote and stars in, won Best Screenplay at both the Whistler Film Festival and the Canadian Film Festival, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Feature Film. It screened at the Glasgow Film Festival and opened theatrically in Canada in May 2024.
Jonas wrote and starred in the romantic comedy The End of Sex, which opened on 200 screens across North America in April 2022 after a TIFF premiere, and the psychological drama Ashgrove, which had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March 2022, won two awards at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival, and was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards.
Jonas starred in two feature films released in 2019. The first, James Vs His Future Self, is a sci-fi rom-com also starring Daniel Stern (Home Alone, City Slickers, Diner) and Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under), written by Chernick and director Jeremy LaLonde. It was the Opening Night Gala Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival, won four awards at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival including Best Canadian Feature Film and Best Sci-Fi Film, and was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards including Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Stern) and Best Original Screenplay (for Chernick and LaLonde). It had its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and its European premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival. The other was the Czech-shot The Prague Orgy in which Jonas stars as Nathan Zuckerman in the adaptation of the Philip Roth book of the same name. The Prague Orgy was adapted and directed by Irena Pavlaskova, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in Czech history, whose debut feature Time of the Servants was a sensation at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. It opened on over 200 screens in cinemas across Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2019 and had its international premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival in October 2020.
Jonas co-starred in the 2018 indie feature A Swingers Weekend which won Best Ensemble Cast at the Canadian Film Festival, and the comedic drama Borealis, alongside Joey King (Emmy nominated for Hulu's The Act, Bullet Train, The Conjuring) and Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men). The film won Best Director and Best Actress at Toronto's Canadian Film Festival, a Special Jury Mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and was the Opening Night Film of the Brooklyn Film Festival. Jonas also appeared in the first episode of the second season of FX's Emmy & Golden Globe Award winning mini-series Fargo, which premiered in October 2015, and also co-stars in Jeremy LaLonde's comedy feature How To Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival before screening in theatres across the US and Canada in May 2016. In 2020, Jonas joined the ensemble cast in season four of the Netflix / CBC original comedy series Workin' Moms and recently co-starred in the award-winning Jeffrey St. Jules feature Cinema of Sleep and the TIFF's Select crime caper film The Last Mark directed by Reem Morsi.
Jonas played the lead role of Daniel Addison in the critically acclaimed CBC mini series The Best Laid Plans, which aired in early 2014. The six-part comedic political satire was based on the award winning novel by Terry Fallis. Jonas won a 2015 Canadian Screen Award for his performance.
Film credits include the lead role in the sex comedy My Awkward Sexual Adventure, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of their Top Ten Films of 2013, won the People's Choice Award at the Calgary International Film Festival, won the Audience Award at the Whistler Film Festival and was released in the USA in April 2013 by Tribeca Film. Jonas was nominated for a 2013 ACTRA Award for Outstanding Male Performance for his portrayal of the sexually inept Jordan Abrams, and for a 2013 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Writing for his original screenplay. Jonas also co-stars in the psychological thriller Blood Pressure, which screened at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival and Beijing International Film Festival, and had a long and critically-priased theatrical run in Canadian cinemas in 2013.
He played 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 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 2005 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'.
Jonas can currently be seen opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the hit Paramount Plus series Rabbit Hole. Jonas is known for playing 'Slade' on the fast-paced hit CBC drama The Border, nominated for 9 Gemini Awards in 2009 and 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.
Jonas has dozens of TV guest star credits, and can next be seen in the upcoming feature films A Thousand Cuts, Negative Capability, Surfacing and Her Last Supper, all scheduled for release in 2024.