Jonno Roberts Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Jonno Roberts
Acting
Biography
Jonno Roberts has been acting in the US since arriving from New Zealand in 1999. He has become a popular performer on stage as well as screen, performing throughout the US and Europe. He rapidly gained a reputation for hard-hitting performances in a number of productions that have been acknowledged as American theatre landmarks, including the hit New York production of Tracey Letts' "BUG" (he replaced Michael Shannon in the lead role); as Eilif in Janos Szasz' devastating "Mother Courage" at the American Repertory Theatre; as Edmund the Bastard to Stacy Keach's "King Lear" at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago; and in notorious Catalan director Calixto Bieito's sole American production - "Camino Real", also at the Goodman. He was profiled as a notable artist by the National Endowment for the Arts. Before moving to the US, he was best known in New Zealand as a comedian, and can still be occasionally seen performing at the legendary LA venue Largo, alongside longtime friend and comedy partner Rhys Darby. Jonno received a Masters degree from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, and from the Moscow Arts Theatre School.
Filmography Movies
Acting
The Elephant King
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met
World's End
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.
Speed Queen
A shy young man summons the courage to approach the unapproachably handsome guy at the bar to surprising results.
The Nut Farm
San Francisco based crypto trader Brendan Brandon loses everything when his investments collapse but an opportunity presents itself when his missing uncle gifts him the family’s macadamia nut farm in the small Australian town of Cobweb. Faced with an unexpected legal caveat and some evil New Zealander frackers, Brendan soon realises that a quick sale of the old farm might not be as easy as he’d hoped.
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires
A new adventure dawns for Zed and Addison when their summer road trip takes an unexpected detour, landing them in the middle of yet another monster rivalry: Daywalkers vs. Vampires. Tensions flare when Zed and Addison find themselves acting as camp counselors between the two opposing supernatural factions. With the help of Eliza and Willa, they must convince sworn enemies Nova and Victor to try to unite their warring worlds before an even greater threat endangers them all.
Message from the King
On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.
Broker
Former actor Jules works her way up to the top of the cutthroat world of Los Angeles commercial real estate, surrounded by an assortment of chauvinists, buffoons, and sharks. But as she rises through the ranks, Jules begins to understand just how intoxicating dealmaking can be.
Seizures
A man, suffering from brain seizures, tries to reconnect with his past by developing old pictures that he doesn't remember. Everything leads to a mysterious gas station, where the man will face his worst nightmare.
Lion Rock
On a beach road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car - she insists it was nothing, but as the night unfolds the boy begins to doubt her story.
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