Jackson Rathbone

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Jackson Rathbone
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Rathbone in September 2010
Born
Monroe Jackson Rathbone V

(1984-12-14) December 14, 1984 (age 39)
Singapore
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • musician
Years active2005–present
Spouse
Sheila Hafsadi
​
(m. 2013)​
Children3
Relatives Monroe Jackson Rathbone II (great-grandfather)

Monroe Jackson Rathbone V (born December 14, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and musician best known for his role as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga film series. From 2008 to 2012, he was the vocalist and occasional guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist of the funk rock band 100 Monkeys.

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Early life

Monroe Jackson Rathbone V [1] [2] was born in Singapore on December 14, 1984, [3] the son of American parents Randee Lynn (née Brauner) and Monroe Jackson Rathbone IV. He has three sisters, including ceramic artist Kelly Rathbone. [4] [5] [6] He is distantly related to Civil War general Stonewall Jackson and English actor Basil Rathbone, being descended from the Rathbone family of Liverpool. [7] His great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, was the chairman of Standard Oil, which later became Exxon. [6] Because of his father's job at Mobil Oil took the family to different places, he lived in Singapore, Norway, and Indonesia before settling in Midland, Texas. [8]

Rathbone attended the Trinity School of Midland and started out in local theater with the Pickwick Players youth actors program, initially doing musical theater. [9] For his junior and senior years of high school, he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where he majored in acting. [8] [9] After graduation, he planned to further study acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, but was rejected and instead decided to move to Los Angeles to look for acting work. [8]

Career

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Rathbone performing with 100 Monkeys in 2011

After being in Los Angeles for a short time, Rathbone was cast in Disney 411 , where he interviewed up-and-coming personalities like Hilary Duff and the sister duo Aly & AJ. He also had guest roles on The O.C. and Close to Home . His film roles include work in Molding Clay, Pray for Morning , and Travis and Henry. In 2005, he got the role of Nicholas Fiske in ABC Family's original series Beautiful People . In a 2008 interview, he stated it was his first leading role and was his most difficult role to fit into. [10]

In 2008, he played Jasper Hale in the film Twilight, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer. [11] He reprised his role in the sequels to Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon , The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2. [12] [13] In 2009, Rathbone played Jeremy in S. Darko . In addition to that role, he won kudos for his performance as a serial killer on Criminal Minds . Rathbone played the role of Sokka in The Last Airbender , a 2010 film based on the animated series. [14] On an added production and marketing budget of 280 million dollars the movie was a commercial failure. The movie was also universally panned by critics. Among the criticism was the casting of Rathbone, whose character drew inspiration from the Inuit people. Rathbone himself is not of Inuit descent.

Rathbone formerly performed in a funk band called 100 Monkeys with two friends whom he met in high school at Interlochen Arts Academy, Ben Graupner and Ben Johnson, [9] as well as close friends Jerad Anderson and M. Lawrence Abrams ("Uncle Larry"). [15] Jackson plays the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, mandolin, trumpet, harmonica and is on vocals. The band released three albums in 2009. [16] In December 2009, 100 Monkeys began a 100-city tour that took them to nearly every state in the US by mid-2010. [17] The band continued to tour into 2011 to coincide with the release of their new album, Liquid Zoo, which was released in June. [18] The band headed overseas for their first international dates in winter 2011. [17]

Rathbone appeared in an episode of No Ordinary Family on November 9, 2010. [19] [20] In November 2010, it was reported he had been cast in the Warner Premiere and Dolphin Entertainment action comedy web series Aim High alongside Aimee Teegarden. [21] [22] The show in which he portrays Nick Green, a high school junior who's just starting a new school year as one of the country's 64 highly trained teenage operatives, premiered on October 18, 2011, on Facebook being the first "social series" ever created. [23]

In May 2011, Rathbone began shooting Live at the Foxes Den , a film in which he plays the lead role of lawyer Bobby Kelly. In November 2014, Rathbone joined the cast of Pali Road . Rathbone has a production company, PatchMo Entertainment, and a record company, Happy Jack Records.

Charity work

Rathbone is an honorary board member for Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools. He has shown support for the organization in several ways, including donating a signed Twilight script for auction, visiting a Little Kids Rock classroom, and delivering instruments to students. [24]

Personal life

Rathbone married his Iraqi-American girlfriend, Sheila Hafsadi, on September 29, 2013. [25] [26] [27] They reside in Alpharetta, Georgia, [8] and have three children: a son born July 5, 2012, [28] a daughter born May 31, 2016, [29] and son born January 5, 2020. [30] His close friend and Twilight co-star Nikki Reed is the godmother of their oldest son.

On September 18, 2014, Rathbone was on a JetBlue flight to Austin from Long Beach when its engine exploded. The plane returned to Long Beach for an emergency landing. There were four injured, but all passengers survived. [31] [32]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005River's EndJimmy
2006 Pray for Morning Connor
2007 Big Stan Robbie the Hippie
2008Senior Skip DaySnippyDirect to video
Twilight Jasper Hale
2009 S. Darko Jeremy Frame
Dread Stephen Grace
Hurt Conrad Coltrane
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Jasper Hale
2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Last Airbender Sokka
Girlfriend Russ
Young AgainAdult EthanShort film
2011100 Monkeys: Modern TimeRedShort film
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Jasper Hale
2012Zombie HamletShakespeare PuristUncredited
Cowgirls n' Angels Justin WoodDirect to video
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Jasper Hale
2013The Magic BraceletGeoffShort film
Live at the Foxes Den Bobby Kelly
2014City of Dead MenJacob
2015 Pali Road Neil Lang
2016100 Monkeys: The FairMusicianShort film
My Husband's WifeKyle
2017 Horseshoe Theory Bobbo
JusticeThomas McCord
2018 Samson Rallah
2019 The Wall of Mexico Donovan Taylor
Do Not ReplyBrad
2020Until We Meet AgainEddie Conway
2021 Mixtape Wes Kelley
2022WarhuntWalsh
2023 Condor's Nest Fritz Ziegler
The Island

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005 Beautiful People Nicholas Fiske16 episodes
Close to Home Scott FieldsEpisode: "Romeo and Juliet Murders"
2006 The O.C. Justin Edwards2 episodes
2007 The War at Home Dylan2 episodes
2009 Criminal Minds Adam JacksonEpisode: "Conflicted"
2010No Ordinary FamilyTrent StaffordEpisode: "No Ordinary Visitors"
2013 White Collar Nate OsbourneEpisode: "Shoot the Moon"
2013 Family Guy Stanley Kowalski Episode: "Brian’s Play"
NTSF:SD:SUV:: Jesse JamesEpisode: "The Great Train Stoppery"
Finding Carter Jared Peters12 episodes
2017 The Last Ship Giorgio8 episodes
2022 The Guardians of Justice Blue Scream

Web

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011–2013Aim HighNick Green16 episodes, also executive producer

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