Jonathan Watton

Known for ActingCorner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Jonathan Watton is a Canadian actor, director, and cinematographer born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. His exact birthday is not publicly available in major sources. He is one of three sons to parents Barbara Ledwell and Wayne Watton, both teachers, and his father introduced him to film at an early age by screening 16 mm prints from the National Film Board of Canada in the living room. After graduating from Memorial University's Fine Arts Theatre Program, he was cast by celebrated theatre director Michael Langham in his first professional stage appearance as a founding member of the Atlantic Theatre Festival. He is a recent alumnus of Norman Jewison's prestigious Canadian Film Centre Film Director's program. As an actor, Watton is best known for playing Dr. Darcy Garland in Murdoch Mysteries (2011–2013, 39 episodes) and Commander Matthew Calhoun in The Handmaid's Tale (2019–2021, 16 episodes). His film credits include Maps to the Stars (2014, directed by David Cronenberg, opposite Julianne Moore), Breach (2007, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger), XX (2017, Sundance), Closet Monster (2015, TIFF), Spinster (2019, opposite Chelsea Peretti), The Calling (2014), and Sharp Corner (2024). On television he has also appeared in Supernatural, Masters of Horror, Reign, Lost Girl, Mayor of Kingstown (2021), Invasion (2021), Strays (2021), and Star Trek: Short Treks (2018, as a Federation Officer). Beyond acting, Watton has directed and cinematographed several short films, including Last of the Snow (2012) and The Pamplemousse (2013), which have screened at festivals around the world. In theatre, he has performed with Canada's preeminent acting ensembles The Shaw Festival and Soulpepper Theatre Company, and in 2018 he returned to the stage in the lead role of the critically acclaimed production of North by Northwest for both the UK and North American premieres.Read more

Movies & web series

Little Men

Supernatural

The Handmaid's Tale

Mayor of Kingstown

Lost Girl

Murdoch Mysteries

Between Truth and Lies

Private Eyes

Christmas Stars

Crown and Anchor

Invasion

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

Closet Monster

Republic of Doyle

The Listener

Breach

Mutant X

Taken

Mary Goes Round

The Crossing

Maps to the Stars

Sharp Corner

The Calling

Perfect Plan

Spinster

Valerie on the Stairs

XX

A Hole in One

Four Minutes

On the Line

Just Business

They Come Back

You Will Still Be Here Tomorrow

Claws of the Red Dragon

Children of Wrath

The Pamplemousse