Jonathon Young

Jonathon Young is a Canadian actor best known for playing Nikola Tesla on the SyFy series Sanctuary. Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and raised in Vernon, British Columbia, he grew up watching his schoolteacher father act in the community theater he had started in Armstrong. Young trained at Studio 58 at Langara College in Vancouver, and in 1996 he co-founded Electric Company Theatre with fellow graduates Kim Collier, David Hudgins and Kevin Kerr. His film and television credits include The Fog (2005), Eureka and Stargate Atlantis, and he has won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award several times. He wrote the play Palace Grand, commissioned by Vancouver's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008, and worked with the dance company Kidd Pivot on Betroffenheit, which premiered in 2015, and Revisor in 2019.