- BADA Programmes: LTP (Comedy), MIO (Acting/Shakespeare)
- Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Jonnie is an award-winning actor with 30 years’ experience across theatre, film and television. He is an Associate Artist of Filter Theatre Company and serves on the Council at Shakespeare’s Globe.
His stage career spans the National Theatre, the RSC, the West End and major regional theatres. He made his debut at the National Theatre in Peter Pan, followed by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the RSC. Further highlights include My Night with Reg (Donmar/West End – Clarence Derwent Award), Humble Boy (Orange Tree – OffieAward, Best Actor), Anna Karenina and The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Theatres – UK Theatre Award nomination), and Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (West End).
With the RSC, Jonnie has played Tattle in Love for Love, Harley in Queen Anne, Antonio in The Tempest, and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. At Shakespeare’s Globe he was part of the 2019 Globe Ensemble performing in the History Cycle, and in 2024 returned as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing.
His long-standing collaboration with Filter Theatre includes internationally touring productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters.
Screen credits include The Crown, Silent Witness, EastEnders, Benediction, Alice in Wonderland, and Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It and The Magic Flute. For BBC Radio he has performed widely and adapted Robert Nye’s The Late Mr Shakespeare for Radio 4, starring Jim Broadbent. He is also the voice of Bill and Ben in Thomas & Friends and an experienced director of Shakespeare.
