Biography

Jason Antoon (born Jason Allan Antoon, 9 November 1971 in Santa Monica, California, USA) – American actor of Lebanese descent, raised in Pacific Palisades and Sherman Oaks. Trained at Carnegie Mellon University (BFA in Drama, 1994), he made his Broadway breakthrough in the 2000 Tony Award-winning musical Contact, for which he earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical. His most notable film roles include Rufus Riley in Minority Report (2002, discovered by Steven Spielberg while in Contact), Norman in Two Weeks Notice (2002), Greg Antonski in Music and Lyrics (2007), Bill Patel in Perfect Stranger (2007), Denny Z in Middle Men (2009), Detective Jerry Eaans in Columbus Circle (2012), and Greg Nathan in The Rewrite (2014, opposite Hugh Grant). On television he is best known for Dr. Ken Brickman in Claws (2017–2022, 40 episodes) and Ernie Malik in NCIS: Hawai'i (2021–2024, 54 episodes). He has also appeared in The Sum of All Fears (2002), Little Black Book (2004), The Producers (2005), Noelle (2019), and numerous guest spots in Law & Order, Sex and the City, Modern Family, New Girl, Castle, and Fresh Off the Boat. He is married to actress Seana Kofoed (m. 2010) and has two children.