Jon Foster

Happy Birthday to Jon Foster! He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of restaurant owners Gillian and Steven Foster. He has an older brother, Ben, who is also an actor, and who has described their parents as "free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies". His paternal grandparents were Celia (Segal) and A. (Abraham) Frank Foster, a prominent judge and politician in Boston, His family relocated to Fairfield, Iowa after their Boston home was burgled while they were present. He made his acting debut in the pilot for the FOX sitcom Get Real (1999) it starred Anne Hathaway and Jessie Eisenberg in early roles, He made his film debut a year later in Thirteen Days (2000) starring Kevin Costner. His other early film roles include Life as a House (2001) with Hayden Christensen and Kevin Kline and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). He was in the TV movie Murder in Greenwich (2002) with Christopher Meloni and was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Leading Young Actor. He then was in the short lived ABC teen drama series Life as We Know It (2004–2005), He was then cast in The Door in the Floor (2004) which starred Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. He also reunited with Christopher Meloni for a guest role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005). That led to a leading role in the supernatural slasher film Stay Alive (2006). After another short lived TV series Windfall (2006) on NBC. He starred in the cult film The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008) with Sienna Miller and the all star Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers (2008). He was in yet another short lived series Accidentally on Purpose (2009) this time on CBS and with Jenna Elfman. that same year he was in Tenderness with Russell Crowe and Laura Dern and the horror film Pandorum. In 2010 he was in Brotherhood with Lou Taylor Pucci and The Last Rites of Ransom Pride with Scott Speedman and Lizzy Caplan. He starred with his brother Ben Foster in Rampart (2011), the cast also includes Woody Harrelson and Sigourney Weaver. His last film to date was Like Father (2018) with Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammar and Seth Rogen. He has a recurring role on 9-1-1: Lone Star. On June 20, 2015, Foster married Chelsea Tyler, daughter of musician Steven Tyler and the sister of actress Liv Tyler. Together, they formed the electronic-soul band Kaneholler. On February 21, 2020, they welcomed their first child, a son named Vincent Frank Foster. Through his brother Ben, Foster is the brother-in-law of actress Laura Prepon.