Johnathon Schaech

In 1991, Schaech played the lead role in Franco Zeffirelli's period piece drama Sparrow (Italian: Storia di una capinera).[4][5] Schaech then portrayed drifter Xavier Red in The Doom Generation.[5]

Schaech appeared in How to Make an American Quilt,[5] which received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 1996, Schaech played the ambitious but self-absorbed lead singer of The Oneders in That Thing You Do!.[6] Schaech next played the male lead in the 1998 thriller Hush.[7] Also in 1996, he was featured as one of the most promising leading men of tomorrow on a Vanity Fair cover alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith and Benicio del Toro.[8]

In 1997, Schaech starred in the Australian comedy Welcome to Woop Woop.[9] Taking the role of a British military man, Schaech was in the independent feature Woundings in 1998,[10] for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.[11] He then accepted the role of Harry Houdini in TNT's Houdini in 1998.[12]

In 1999, Schaech starred in Finding Graceland[13] and Splendor.[14] He then shot a failed CBS pilot Partners opposite Marg Helgenberger.[15] He played the love interest of Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Party of Five spin-off, Time of Your Life,[16] which was canceled in the middle of its first season, on June 21, 2000.[17]

In 2000, Schaech starred in his first major play, David Rabe's A Question for Mercy, playing a Colombian-born gay Manhattanite dying of AIDS. He lost 35 pounds for the role.[18]

In 2001, Schaech filmed the role of the title character in Judas. The film was highly controversial and was pushed back for several years until Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ was released in 2004, opening a window for the network to air the film.[19]

In 2005, Schaech starred in Sea of Dreams,[20] which won director José Pepe Bojórquez the Silver Goddess award for best first work. In 2005, he was cast opposite his then wife, Christina Applegate, in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas for CBS.[21] Schaech co-starred in the CBS pilot "Commuters".[22]

In 2006, Schaech starred in Little Chenier. The film won best picture and best ensemble at the Phoenix film festival.[23] In 2006, he was cast in the Lifetime television film Angels Fall.[24]

In 2007, Schaech took the lead in Sony's remake of Prom Night.[25] He received an MTV award nomination for best villain for his performance, losing to Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker.[26] In 2008, he appeared in science fiction film Quarantine.[27]

In 2010, Schaech played a Georgian army captain in the independent action film 5 Days of War.[28]

In 2013, Schaech appeared in the submarine thriller Phantom.[29] He was cast in the first season of the Showtime series Ray Donovan, appearing in five episode as an eccentric movie star, Sean Walker, and played the corn-rowed villain The Legend of Hercules, gaining 30 lbs of muscle to play the Egyptian mercenary Tarak.[30]

In 2014, Schaech joined the cast of History's miniseries Texas Rising, playing Colonel Sherman.[31]

In 2016, Schaech appeared in the television series Legends of Tomorrow as the DC Comics bounty hunter Jonah Hex.[32]