Evan Jonigkeit

Evan Jonigkeit is an American actor born on February 18, 1983, in Oyster Bay, New York, who was raised in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Neshaminy High School in 2001 and was admitted to Temple University on a baseball scholarship. After tendonitis sidelined him from the sport, Jonigkeit shifted his focus to theater. As a young adult he held jobs doing lawn work and also lived in Aurora, Illinois before establishing himself in the Philadelphia theater community, where he was eventually signed by a New York agency.

Jonigkeit's Broadway career spans 2011 to 2013. His first Broadway credit came in 2011 with the play High, which served as the foundation for his subsequent stage work. In 2013 he appeared in The Snow Geese alongside Mary-Louise Parker.

His film debut came in 2014 when he was cast as the villain Toad in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The following year he appeared in the western Bone Tomahawk alongside Kurt Russell, playing Deputy Nick, and was also cast as Captain Chesterfield in the Discovery Canada series Frontier. Through his production company, Rooster Films, Jonigkeit produced the short film Mildred & The Dying Parlor, which starred Steve Buscemi and Jane Krakowski. In 2017 he co-produced the ESPYs and produced a live Facebook event titled Stand For Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU with Tom Hanks, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for that work. That same year, Jonigkeit partnered with actress Zosia Mamet and Refinery29 to produce the anthology series Fabled.

Jonigkeit starred in the Starz drama Sweetbitter, based on the novel of the same name, playing Will, a backwaiter who trains and befriends the central character Tess. The series premiered on May 6, 2018, and ran through 2019. In 2020 he appeared in the horror films The Night House and The Empty Man. He subsequently starred in the Netflix series Archive 81 as Samuel Davenport, a primary antagonist, with all eight episodes of the first season released on January 14, 2022. In 2023 he played Dr. Raphael Clearwater in William Atticus Parker's film Atrabilious.

In his personal life, Jonigkeit began dating actress Zosia Mamet in 2013, and the two married on October 2, 2016.