Jay Rodan

Jay Rodan (born May 15, 1974) is a South African-born American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and producer.
Jay Rodan was born in Durban, South Africa to a Scottish father and South African mother. Their nomadic lifestyle meant he was raised in London, Edinburgh, Vancouver, including a stint in an ashram in India while following a guru. He was a founding member of the FLAT Gallery, an artist initiative and alternative space in Durban, along with Ledelle Moe and Siemon Allen. He has appeared in multiple independent films with directors Kasi Lemmons, Franco Zeffirelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, and others. He starred as Marc Anthony in TNT's Julius Caesar opposite Christopher Walken, and on ITV's hit soap Footballer's Wives opposite Joan Collins. As a writer-producer he has sold TV shows to ABC, AMC, and NBC, and has written feature films for LucasFilm, Filmnation, Thunder Road, and others. He performed an uncredited rewrite of the Ghost in the Shell reboot starring Scarlett Johansson (Universal, 2017). He was nominated by the Writer's Guild of America in 2013 and 2014 for creating and writing the multi-award-winning web series Lauren. He owns and oversees a production company that has produced extensive commercial and still creative work for a wide variety of clients, including the 2019 Webby-nominated Moncler digital campaign featuring Sophia the Robot of Hanson Robotics, the first robot given legal personhood anywhere in the world. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, where he now lives with his wife, photographer Kayt Jones and their three daughters. In 2017 he became a naturalized American citizen. In 2020 his Literary Sci-Fi novel Warspace was published by Automatic Content.
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