Actor / Director Profile

Jonas Chernick co-wrote and starred in Lucid (2005), a feature film that premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and won the City TV Award for Best Western Canadian Feature Film at the 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival. He also collaborated on the screenplay and played the leading role in Inertia (2001), which won the award for Best First Canadian Film at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and for which he picked up the Blizzard Award for Best Leading Actor. Jonas won a 2008 Gemini Award and was nominated for a 2009 ACTRA Award for his work as "Slade" on the hit CBC drama series "The Border" (2008). He can be seen in ongoing roles on the comedy series "Living in Your Car" (2010) (HBO Canada) and "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2001) (Teen Nick/Much Music). Other recent appearances include "King" (2011) (Showcase), "The Listener" (2009) (CTV), "Haven" (2010) (SyFy/Showcase), "Being Erica" (2009) (CBC), "Little Mosque on the Prairie" (2007) (CBC), "This Is Wonderland" (2004) (CBC), "At the Hotel" (2006) (CBC) and the films Seven Times Lucky (2004) (Sundance Film Festival 2004) and the upcoming Blood Pressure (2011) and The Samaritan (2012) with Samuel L. Jackson. As a screenwriter, Jonas has four feature films in development: My Awkward Sexual Adventure (a sexy romantic comedy scheduled for production in 2011), Borealis (a father-daughter road trip story), Clara's War (an historical epic produced by Corey Marr Productions) and The Spark (a relationship comedy).