Jon Jon Briones

Jon Jon Briones is a Filipino and American actor whose career has centered on musical theater. Born in Quezon City, he was studying engineering in the Philippines when he helped arrange auditions for the Cameron Mackintosh team and ended up joining the ensemble of the original 1989 London production of Miss Saigon. He went on to work in touring productions of the show, as a swing who covered other roles, before taking on the Engineer in the 2014 West End revival, a performance that brought him an Olivier Award nomination and a WhatsOnStage Award. He played the same part on Broadway in 2017. On screen he has appeared in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and American Horror Story: Apocalypse in 2018, Ratched in 2020 and Star Trek: Picard in 2022, and he played Joseph in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). In 2024 he joined the Broadway cast of Hadestown.