Biography

Jonathan Gregory Brandis was born to Mary and Greg Brandis, in Danbury, Connecticut, on 13 April 1976. He was discovered by a next-door ad agent and began acting on TV adverts at an early age. He starred in films ranging from accompanying Chuck Norris in Sidekicks to playing a girl in The Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield. Jonathan managed to find a niche in the US teen magazine market and became the teen actor whose picture was printed in the greatest number of teeny-bop magazine covers. He became a national star for the US teenagers in the 1990s and even had his personal advice column in the BOP magazine.

This popularity made him a part of the Steven Spielberg produced TV science-fiction series SeaQuest DSV and although it came nowhere people expected it would come to, the series survived for 3 seasons, and from the beginning of the second season, Jonathan Brandis was the leading force of this science-fiction series. It came to an end when everything seemed to be improving with a new cast and a new combination of scripts and even a new name for the show, SeaQuest 2032. An episode in the second series is written by Jonathan Brandis and he was about to direct an episode when the show was axed. Ever since SeaQuest, he is either in low-budget and mostly made-for-TV film or has small parts in big productions as Ride With the Devil. ~ Cem Karadeli