Johnathon Schaech started his career some twenty five years ago saddling up and slinging a gun in THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR. Since then he’s starred in over 90 productions. Finding himself starring opposite some of Hollywood’s greatest talents like Jessica Lange and Gwenyth Paltrow in HUSH, Winona Ryder in HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, Idris Elba in PROM NIGHT and most notably Tom Hanks in Hank’s directorial debut, THAT THING YOU DO! (Too name just a few.) In the last several years; Johnathon has been reinventing himself as a leading man to watch.
Starring in the thriller PHANTOM opposite Ed Harris and David Duchovny. Making a movie star turn on the first season of Showtime’s RAY DONOVAN opposite Liev Shrieber and Jon Voight. He recurred as a heroic cop in CBS’s BLUE BLOODS along side Donnie Wahlberg and played a haunted eyed detective opposite Bruce Willis and Christopher Meloni in the Lionsgate’s feature MARAUDERS. Most recently Schaech saddled up for the History Channel’s TEXAS RISING going toe to toe with Bill Paxton’s Sam Houston as the fiery Colonel Sherman. Now you can find him riding high again for Warner Bros as the famous comic antihero Jonah Hex in DC’S LEGEND’S OF TOMORROW. Jonah sometimes makes appearances on THE FLASH and ARROW.
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QUOTES:
“You have to follow your heart. Your body will catch up.” | CLICK TO TWEET
“Shame is something that you are that you can’t change. Guilt is something that you’ve done.” | CLICK TO TWEET
“Being Dyslexia is not something I did, it’s something I am.” | CLICK TO TWEET
“Dyslexia is a mark of genius.”
“You can’t take the arts out of the schools because that is the only way I got to the other side of understanding my disability. The arts brought it all to me.”
“Actions in between matter. The lines don’t matter. Get what you want.” | CLICK TO TWEET
“Dyslexics find the meaning in the word-Dyslexia Advantage.”
“Don’t force anything. If you don’t force anything you’ll win.” | CLICK TO TWEET
“I had the fire in me. I was so determined to find my voice.”
“Every actor needs to take their moment. You need to take your power. You need to take your moment to shine.” | CLICK TO TWEET