Age: 30
male
Jonathan was born in 1996, in Wellington, New Zealand. With a ballerina as a mother, and a theatre technician as a father, he was in a rehearsal room from birth. He learned to dance and sing from a young age, starring in high school productions and in the local semi-professional musical theatre shows. After starring in Grease for Wellington Musical Theatre at 16, Jonathan decided to become an actor. Jonathan attended Te Auaha: NZ Institute of Applied Creativity, studying Musical Theatre. During this time he starred in underground theatre shows, co-starred in NZ movies Pork Pie, Catching the Black Widow, and The Great Maiden's Blush, and took a leading role in independent short DayZ: End of the Road. His first major role came in 2016, where he played Ben Smart in the TV ONE film 'Doubt: The Scott Watson Case'. He graduated in 2016, and moved to Auckland to study at NZ's premier drama school - The Actors Program, taught by NZ acting greats Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward Leland, Michele Hine, Sara Wiseman, Cameron Rhodes. While studying, Jonathan co-starred in hit TV2 show Wilde Ride as Caleb Saunders, a dirt bike riding bad boy from West Auckland. This show broke multiple records on TVNZ's OnDemand platform. He graduated in 2017, and went on to star as Sky in the professional season of Mamma Mia in 2018 at the Bruce Mason Centre. Jonathan was cast in the touring production of The Changeling, directed by internationally acclaimed actor Michael Hurst. Following this, he co-starred as Connor Stuart in NZ's hit soap opera Shortland Street, and played the leading role of Danny Zuko in the professional season of Grease: The Arena Spectacular in Invercargill. In 2019, Jonathan starred in independent short Old Boys, playing twin brothers. He launched comedy skit platform Something Else Media, NZ's first online skit comedy platform.
Jonathan James
New Zealander soldier and officer
for New Zealander soldier and officer in World War II: The War in the Pacific
Suggested by darksith
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the scene of World War II, which took place in East Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. Geographically, it was the largest theater of the war, including the huge war rampage in the Pacific, the war in the Southwest Pacific, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet-Japanese War. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been ongoing since July 7, 1937, with hostilities extending as far back as September 19, 1931, with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Pacific War itself began on December 7 (December 8 Japanese time) 1941, when the Japanese simultaneously attacked United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines and invaded Thailand and the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. In the Pacific War, the Allies opposed Japan, aided by Thailand and to a lesser extent by Axis allies. The fighting consisted of some of the largest naval battles in history and incredibly fierce battles and war crimes across Asia and the Pacific Islands resulting in huge loss of life. The war culminated in massive Allied air raids on Japan, including the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accompanied by a declaration of war by the Soviet Union and the invasion of Manchuria and other territories on August 9, 1945, causing the Japanese to announce their intention to surrender on August 15, 1945.
