Jon is a director, an actor and a producer, who for six seasons, starred as Miguel Rivas on NBC’s critically acclaimed, award winning series, This Is Us. His character’s story spanned decades, from the 1970’s to present day, where he portrayed one of the most realistic, prominent and well-received caregivers for dementia in a network television series. Audiences also know Jon from his role as the tough but affable, Detective Javier Esposito on ABC’s long-running hit dramedy Castle and as Sgt. “Poke” Espera in the HBO limited series Generation Kill about the Marine Corps 1st Recon invasion of Iraq that Jon, being a veteran himself, calls the most meaningful role of his career.

After deciding to take a break from acting to pursue filmmaking, Jon’s directed episodes of This Is Us, The Rookie, The Rookie: Feds, The Company You Keep, Tracker, and The Irrational to name a few and soon he’ll helming two independent feature films with one being his feature directing debut. Currently he’s working the festival circuit with a feature called The Trap, a film he produced for Game of Throne’s Lena Heady’s as her directorial debut. And next time we see him in front of the camera will be for a series he created with Peter Farrelly for Happy Madison and a series with eOne based on the book Fire with Fire that he’s Ep’ing and starring in.