Born in Washington, D.C., U.S, on January 31, 1947, Jonathan Ray Banks is an American performing artist. He is the son of Elena Adams Banks. He completed his graduation from Northwood High School in 1965 in Maryland and joined the Indiana University Bloomington, where Jonathan was a classmate of performing artist Kevin Kline.
Amid that time, they took an interest in the creation of The Threepenny Opera together. Banks dropped out of the college to join a touring organization of Hair as a stage manager. He visited Australia with the Hair organization. Banks wedded his first spouse in 1968.
Together, they had one girl. After his separation in 1970, he married his second spouse in 1990. From this marriage, they had twins. Banks additionally has a stepdaughter. Banks shifted to Los Angeles and performed in front of an audience before getting bit parts on TV in 1974.
He remarkably starred in the sex Public Service Announcement named Linda's Film on Menstruation, which referred by John Oliver on his show titled Last Week Tonight with John Oliver giving sex instruction in the same year. The episode broadcasted on 9 August of 2015, and Banks showed up toward the finish of the section, deriding the content of said PSA.
He co-featured in Beverly Hills Cop and 48 hrs, which are among his best-known parts. Other movie parts incorporate appearances in Identity Thief Click to look into! >> Read More... , Armed and Dangerous, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Buckaroo Banzai, Murder You, Freejack, Murder Me, Flipper, Gremlins, and Airplane! Banks got the break on TV in 1987 with the show Wiseguy, in which he played Frank Mc Pike for a long time, a part which prompted a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award.
Although his role was of the coach of the Hero, tales periodically represented Mc Pike as a legend. He acted as Dutch Schultz in 1981 on the NBC arrangement named the Gangster Chronicles. He likewise featured on the fleeting sci-fi show Otherworld as the character Kommander Nuveen Kroll and in the sitcom titled Fired Up. In the second period of Breaking Bad, Banks acted as Mike Ehrmantraut.
He turned into a series constant for the next three seasons. For the fifth season, he got a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor at Primetime Emmy Award in a Drama Series for the fifth series. He likewise worked on a few TV appears.
In 2014, he had a repeating role as Buzz Hickey in the fifth period of the Community, an NBC sitcom. He recurred as Mike Ehrmantraut in the Breaking Bad spinoff arrangement Better Call Saul, for which he gained his third Emmy selection in season 1.
In April of 2016, he received grant a privileged doctoral degree from Indiana University. Jonathan voiced the James Gordon in the computer game Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015. Banks worked on the episode "Supernatural Shooters" of Mythbusters. He additionally plays Walt in the spine-chiller movie The Commuter in 2018.
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