- Born
- Nickname
- Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- "British born Jon Jacobs has acted in over two dozen fascinating, maddening and distinctive feature films.. the result is a stylish, varied, highly imaginative body of work that has garnered heaps of prizes and recognition. Jacobs is overall an artist very much worth discovering." F.X Feeney - LA Weekly.
Jon is an indie actor/filmmaker, his first short film Metropolis Apocalypse was an official selection at the Cannes film Festival in 1988. Jon's first lead role in a feature film was in the much praised Welcome Says the Angel (2003) Kevin Thomas, of the Los Angeles Times selected the film as Best of the Weekend and raved that the characters were "Beautifully played by Jacobs and Hauer". Jon played the title role in Hungarian Film Week Winner Johnny Famous (2000) and directed and starred in the audacious Festival hit Lucinda's Spell (1998). In 2002 Jon created the Iconic "Neverdie" avatar inside the online MMORPG Entropia Universe, Neverdie made video game history and has became one of the most influential Avatars in the early Metaverse. In 2005 Jon co-directed and starred as DJ Hound Dog in the Musical Comedy DJ Hound Dog (2003) featuring a line up of many of the worlds top international DJ's. Jon's Company, NEVERDIE Studios created Virtual Destinations for Pop Icon "Michael Jackson" , Rock Legend "Lemmy Kilmister" and virtual movie adventures for Peter Jackson's King Kong and The THING (2011) in partnership with Universal Studios. Jon won the Outstanding Performance Award at the 2019 Method Fest film festival playing Walt Warshaw in William Wayne's award winning micro-budget thriller Lost Angelas (2019). In 2023 Jon won the Seymour Cassel Award for Best Actor at the Oldenburg International Film Festival 2023 for his portrayal of Legendary indie film producer Cassian Elwes in Elwes' directorial debut Passenger C (2023)- IMDb Mini Biography By: First Horn
- When Jon was 10 years old he gave a recording of himself singing to famous Ex Beatle; Paul McCartney. When Jon saw him again a few weeks later, he asked Paul if he had listened to the tape. Paul shrugged at first not recalling, then he said "wait a minute, I had a meeting with a Music Producer in my Car and I put in a cassette to play him my latest Demo, but it was you singing heartbreak hotel.
- Lives in Southern California.
- After years of dreaming of breaking into movies, Jon was visiting his friend Cris Campion, a French actor who was working on Robert Altman's film Beyond Therapy (1987) which was shooting in Paris. While Jon was actually on the set, Cris received a phone call from London informing him that Jon had won his first film role (it took him a while to convince Jon he wasn't pulling his leg). Jon has always considered it a good omen that his first film role came to him while visiting Altman's set.
- Son Taliesin Jacobs born Nov 20th 1999
- When trying to get his film Lucinda's Spell (1998) made he pitched it to producers as it a potential sequel to the Ken Russell film Whore (1991).
- Everyone has conversations going on in their heads, but if you start to move your lips, or speak even, especialy on the streets, then everyone thinks you're fu#%!ing crazy.
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