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Jonathan Cake is a British actor, who's best known for roles in Desperate Housewives, The Affair and historical drama Empire. British fans may recognise him from Press Gang and Grange Hill from back in the day. He's classically trained, graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Jonathan is 57 years old.
A child actor, Jonathan started off on stage with roles in Shakespeare productions for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre before making his TV debut in Press Gang in 1993. The following year, he had a small role in the US film First Knight alongside Sean Connery and Richard Gere and was cast as Ewan in Grange Hill.
Since those early days, Jonathan has worked on a lot of British TV shows and productions with some of the industry's biggest names, and switches from the UK to the US. Most notably, he was in Brideshead Revisited, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chuck, Stargirl and Grey's Anatomy.
Jonathan Cake and Julianne Nicholson ©Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Jonathan is married to American actress Julianne Nicholson. The couple married in Italy on 24 September 2004.
Jonathan and Julianne have two children – son Ignatius, 17, and daughter Phoebe, 16.
Jonathan is on Instagram, where he's been promoting his new role. You can find him @jonathan.is.cake
Shereen Low is a senior news and entertainment writer for Grazia UK, who has covered some of the biggest showbiz news from the past decade.
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