Name	Jon Bernthal
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	20-September-1976
Place of Birth	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Jon Bernthal is an American actor, best known for his role as Shane Walsh on the AMC television series The Walking Dead. After high school, he studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and later attended The School of Moscow Art Theatre, in Moscow, Russia. During his time there, he also played professional baseball in the European Professional Baseball Federation. He was discovered by the director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated in 2002 from the American Repertory Theatre with a Master of Fine Arts.

Since 2002, Bernthal has performed in over 30 plays regionally and off-Broadway, including many with his own award-winning theatre company, Fovea Floods. He starred on the sitcom The Class from 2006 through 2007. Bernthal portrayed Shane Walsh in Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, based on the American comic book series of the same name. He was nominated for the Breakout Performance – Male award at the 2011 Scream Awards for his performance. He has since been cast as Joe Teague in L.A. Noir, Darabont's pilot for TNT.

Bernthal is married to Erin Angle, who is the niece of professional wrestler Kurt Angle. He is a cousin of Adam Schlesinger who performs with the band Fountains of Wayne. Together with his brother Nicholas Matthew Bernthal, who is an orthopaedic surgeon at UCLA, they help run a nonprofit organization called Drops Fill Buckets, "an impact-driven, entrepreneurial approach to making a difference".