Tim Jo

Timothy " Tim " William Wungjeh Jo ( April 20, 1984 in Dallas, Texas ) is an American actor and musician. His breakthrough in film and television, he celebrated only in the more advanced age of 25 in 2009. Together with his fellow actor Ryan Donowho he formed the rock group The Animals of Kin who belongs among other things, the actress Sarah Roemer.

Life and career

Tim Jo was born in 1984 as the son of petroleum or natural gas engineer John Yonghan Jo and his wife Anna Eunkyung son in the big city of Dallas and spent his early years in the city of Mesquite, close to his birthplace. Due to the work of the father's family had to move several times, so we moved from Mesquite to Houston and from there over Aurora in the U.S. state of Colorado to Warsaw in Poland. After the work of the father had led the family to Europe, she returned to approximately three years in the United States, where they settled in San Antonio. In Poland, Jo discovered his passion for acting, which led him to specialize in his native country mainly on this topic. After he had gathered in Warsaw first experience in acting field, at his first audition for a school play he was immediately cast in a starring role, he continued his education in the U.S. continues and stood after a few years just before a Master of Fine Arts in a graduate program. Shortly before his graduation the view, however, was made ​​on a master's degree from the school destroyed, after his mother persuaded him to Los Angeles to take in order to try his luck.

There he landed soon thereafter, in 2009, his first significant role, a bit part in the comedy The 2 Bobs. In the same year he celebrated his real breakthrough as an actor in the musical film Bandslam - Get Ready to Rock, alongside Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Hudgens, Alyson Michalka and Lisa Kudrow! . In the 10 - million - dollar production he played with guitarist Omar one of the main characters. In this production, he also met for the first time in his later companions Ryan Donowho and Gaelan Connell, with whom he should still work together on other projects in the future. In the German dubbed version of the film, he was the German voice of David Turba, known among other things as a solid voice of Shia LaBeouf, borrowed. Also in 2009, played the young Americans with South Korean roots in another movie with music; in Fame, a remake of the classic of the same name in 1980, he hired a Korean boy dar. Shortly after his breakthrough in Bandslam he began Donowho as a singer-songwriter to work, but both saw the beginning of public appearances from. Rather, Jo concentrated on his acting career and his great hobby, sculpture. As an actor, he was posted in 2010, the same for several productions, primarily for television series.

In addition to a recurring role as Dewey in Greek, where you saw him in 2010 in two different episodes, he was cast in this year for a leading role. In the short-lived television series Glory Daze Jo was used in all ten episodes in the role of Alex Chang. A year later, finally followed by a guest appearance in the fourth episode of the fourth season of Castle, where he slipped into the role of Ben Lee, the son of a Chinese mafia boss. It was not until the year 2011 formed from the singer-songwriter duo Donowho -yo a band Animals of Kin, who joined the with the passage of time among other fellow actress Sarah Roemer and other members. Initially followed for the band primarily appearances in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. In 2012, he starred in Gaelan Connell, the star of Bandslam, directorial debut with I Am Ben, the film was shot in 2010 and released in the summer of 2012. Along with Mathew Brady Connell wrote the screenplay and also served as co-producer and co-director with just this. In addition, Connell slipped into the film in the lead role of Arthur, while Tim Jo took over the other main role of David. Also in 2012, the Texas native appeared in the short film Fratervention: The End of Bro'ing Out, a production that was attended by mainly Asian -born players, with.

In 2012, he made ​​it into the main occupation of the new U.S. comedy series The Neighbors. There he plays the alien - son Reggie Jackson, whom he previously represented in all 37 produced episodes (as of February 20, 2014 ). In December 2011, he was cast in Dan Fogel Mans pilot for the series, this time wearing his character nor the name of Joe Montana.

Filmography

• 2009: The 2 Bobs
• 2009: Bandslam - Get Ready to Rock!
• 2009: Fame
• 2012: I Am Ben
• 2012: Fratervention: The End of Bro'ing Out ​​( short film )

• 2010: Greek (2 episodes )
• 2010-2011: Glory Daze (10 episodes, complete series)
• 2011: Castle ( 1 episode )
• Since 2012: The Neighbors ( 37 episodes )