Jeff Branson

Jeff Branson is an American actor from St. Louis who spent much of his career in daytime drama before branching into film and prime time television. He originated the part of Jonathan Lavery on All My Children in 2004, remaining with the soap until 2007, and also played a younger Alan Spaulding and later Shayne Lewis on Guiding Light, staying until that series ended in 2009. That work brought him Daytime Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2009, and he won the second one, sharing it with Vincent Irizarry. In 2010 he began playing Ronan Malloy, an undercover FBI agent, on The Young and the Restless, a role that earned him a Dankies Award in 2012. His film credits include Wolves of Wall Street (2002) and I Spit on Your Grave (2010), and he has appeared on NCIS, The Mentalist, Supernatural and Supergirl, and plays Neil Armstrong in For All Mankind.