Jonathan Stevens Jackson, (born May 11, 1982) is an American actor, musician (see Enation) and author. His first well known character was Lucky Spencer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital, a role which has won him five Emmy Awards. In 2002, he played Jesse Tuck in the film Tuck Everlasting. In 2004 he started the band Enation with his brother, actor and drummer Richard Lee Jackson and friend Daniel Sweatt. He currently portrays Avery Barkley in the CMT drama Nashville. While working at General Hospital, Jackson starred in his first feature film Camp Nowhere, as Morris “Mud” Himmel in 1994.[22] Also during this time he starred in made-for-television films Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. [23] and The Legend of the Ruby Silver,[24] and made a guest appearance during Season 5 of the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World. In 1999, Jackson filmed The Deep End of the Ocean shortly before leaving General Hospital, starring opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. Jackson was nominated for Young Star Awards in 1997 for Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. and 1999 for The Deep End of the Ocean. Jackson continued his film career in 2000 with the independent film True Rights[28] and the ABC television movie Trapped in a Purple Haze.[23] Jackson also wrote and directed a short film with his brother Richard entitled Crystal Clear, which won Best Dramatic Short Film and the Coen Brothers Award for Duo-Filmmaking at the Brooklyn Film Festival. [29] In 2002, Jackson played one of his most well-known film roles as Jesse Tuck in Tuck Everlasting, which he filmed simultaneously to Insomnia. In 2004, Jackson filmed Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and Riding the Bullet. From 2008 through 2009, he had a recurring role as Kyle Reese in the hit Fox TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, playing the father of John Connor before the show was cancelled.
