During his college years, he and his friends put on productions of Shakespeare in the local pub.
Began acting in school.
He was born in Boulder, Colorado but moved to England as a baby.
At seventeen, he spent a year back-packing in Tibet with his older brother. On his return, he began attending Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art but found it hard to settle back in. Ultimately, though, he did graduate.
Education: Fine Arts College Hampstead, Webber Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Arts (graduated 1999).
Family: Two older brothers, one of whom traveled through Tibet with JJ at age seventeen, and one younger sister.
Favorite songs: Mike Scott's She is so Beautiful, Pavarotti's Una Furtiva Lagrima, Johnny Cash's One.
Favourite movies: The Lion in Winter (1968), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Last Orders (2001).
Favorite books: Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, The Lonely Planet series, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
Attented Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Graduated in 1999.
Was in a relationship with actress Kelly Reilly.
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