Jonathan Maxwell Reeves
- Actor
- Writer
Was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1968. His mother didn't want him to
become an actor and so he was send to a school to become bookkeeper.
This went wrong and at age 18 he left school without any degree. In
1992 after a whole range of jobs going from PC/Hifi salesman,salesman
at an ISP and even working in a pizzeria for a short time he finally
got his chance when he was accepted at the Municipal Academy of Word
and Music in Hoboken. There he was trained for 6 years by Belgian's
leading actor Herbert Flack and Erik Maes. He stared in plays from
Shakespeare, Moliere, Anouilh and many more. He also served his country
for two years in the Belgian army as a volunteer. From 1994 to 1995 he
played the part of Billy Bibbit 80 times in the Dutch version of the
stage play One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Wim Lanckrock
and adapted by Alex Van Haecke. In 1999 he started to concentrate more
and more on writing (screen) plays, directing and developing game-show
formats instead of acting but from time to time he still accepts guest
appearances in television series or Belgian movies and you can find him
in the streets of Antwerp where he regularly does mime, clown and
living statue acts as a street-performer. In 2007 he was for a short
time connected as actor at the Belgian amusement park 'Ooit Tongeren'
but the company went into bankruptcy three weeks after opening. That
same year he made his first short called Dead Serious.
