Jonathan Cake (born August 31, 1967, Worthing, West Sussex, England) is an English actor who has worked on various TV programmes and series. His notable screen roles include Jack Favell in Rebecca (1997), Oswald Mosley in Mosley (1998), Japheth in the NBC television film Noah's Ark (1999), Tyrannus in the ABC miniseries Empire (2005), and Det. Chuck Vance on the ABC drama series Desperate Housewives (2011–2012).His father was a glassware importer and his mother a school administrator.

Filmography

• 2022Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
• And Just Like That… — Duncan Reeves
• 2021With/In Volume 2 — (segment "Touching"), Screenplay, Director
• DC's Stargirl — Richard Swift / The Shade
• Emily in Paris — Thomas Heatherton
• 2019Entangled — Jonas
• 2017Perfect Roast Potatoes — William
• Angie Tribeca — Nafan
• Camping — Adam
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Blackbeard / Edward Teach
• The Affair — Furkat
• Death in Paradise — Daniel Morgan
• 2010Krews — Peter Spanbauer
• Riverworld
• Rizzoli & Isles — Dr. Ian Faulkner
• 2008Brideshead Revisited — Rex Mottram
• Chuck — Cole Barker
• 2007Mastersons of Manhattan — Marshall Crawford
• Six Degrees — Roy
• Empire — Tyrannus
• Extras — Steve Sherwood
• Grey's Anatomy — Griffin Ford
• Inconceivable — Dr. Malcolm Bowers
• 2005The Government Inspector — Alastair Campbell
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mark Easterbrook
• Desperate Housewives — Chuck Vance
• 2004Fallen — Jason Shepherd
• 2003Out of the Ashes — Dr. Mengele
• 2003Riverworld — Nero
• The American Embassy — Jack Wellington
• 2002The One and Only — Sonny
• 2002The Swap — Charles Anderson
• Dr Terrible's House of Horrible — Randolph Cleveland
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Colin Ledger
• 2000Honest — Andrew Pryce Stevens
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Patrick Mulregan
• Noah's Ark — Japhet
• 1998Diamond Girl — Regan Montana
• 1998Mosley — Oswald 'Tom' Mosley
• Mosley — Oswald 'Tom' Mosley
• The Jump — George Brunos
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Peter Templer
• Jonathan Creek — Hippy protestor (uncredited)
• Rebecca — Jack Favell
• 1996Nightlife — Advocate
• 1996The Girl — Ned Ridley
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Ralph Hattersley
• 1996True Blue — Patrick Conner
• 1995First Knight — Sir Gareth
• The Thin Blue Line — Stallion
• Frank Stubbs Promotes — Jerome
• Goodnight Sweetheart — Ludo
• Law & Order — Marcus Woll
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — John Christow
• 1984Hamlet — Lucianus

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Carrott U Like — Himself