Jay Rodan

Jay Rodan ( born May 15, 1974 in Durban ) is a South African film and theater actor.

Short Biography

Jay Rodan was born the son of a Scottish father and a Dutch mother in South Africa. However, since his parents had been actively involved in all over the world, Rodan grew up among others in London and Edinburgh, but also came to India and Canada. Here, in a youth theater in Vancouver, Rodan began from the age of 16 his career as an actor. After he finished school, he took on many different jobs and worked as construction workers and roofers.

The mid-1990s drew Rodan back to South Africa, where he in 1995, aged 21 years, a director staged his first professional play. He also received initial offers as an actor; in Faces in the Wall of the author Pieter -Dirk Uys he played a young homosexual.

However, Rodan hoped international career was slow in coming. He moved to London, where he drew attention to himself in plays by William Shakespeare at Covent Garden. To be able to keep financially afloat, he worked in parallel among other things as removal.

2001 was the year in which Rodan also received his first film offer. In the horror film The Caveman's Valentine by Kasi Lemmons, he convinced alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Colm Feore. In Julius Caesar, a television adaptation of 2002 he stood as Mark Antony in front of the camera. In The Game of Their Lives a film from the year 2005, he embodied the American football player Frank Wallace.

Jay Rodan now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is married to American photographer Kayt Jones and the couple have two daughters together. With his wife, he produced in 2008 the 15 - minute short film Foxglove, in which he embodied not only the main role, but also as a director, screenwriter and film producer responsible recorded.

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: The Caveman 's Valentine ( The Caveman 's Valentine )
• 2002: Julius Caesar ( Julius Caesar )
• 2002: Callas Forever