Biography

Jerry Kernion is an award-winning actor/director/writer/ producer recently appearing in supporting roles in The Instigators w/ Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, Sharper w/ Julianne Moore and as Carl in the upcoming Netflix film Players starring Gina Rogriguez. He's also appeared as Sherwin Ellis on The Blacklist, Court Sheriff Gage on The Good Fight (2017), Luis Ramos on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Ray Shoals on FBI. Recent stage appearances include Robert Grove in The Play That Goes Wrong at The New Theatre in Kansas City, Officer Krupke in The Lyric Opera Chicago's production of West Side Story and at the Broadway Playhouse playing Col. Tom Parker for the fourth time in the prequel to Million Dollar Quarter, called Heartbreak Hotel.

Kernion's 70+ television appearances include recurring and guest starring roles on Chicago Fire (2012), Rebel (2017) (created by John Singleton) opposite Giancarlo Esposito, Mad Men (2007) (opposite Jon Hamm), and as "Bobby Corso" on Grey's Anatomy (2005). He was a series regular on Campus Cops (1995) (the first single camera comedy series on USA Network).

On the big screen he was heard as "Mr. Henry Fenner" in The Princess and the Frog (2009) and starred alongside John Savage and Michael Gross as the lovable barfly Hutch in the award-winning indie feature film Last Call at Murray's (2016). He has done two shows as a lead clown with Cirque du Soleil and performed around the world as a member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company for the last 15 years.

As a director, writer and producer, Kernion has worked across genres directing and producing commercials, film, theatre and even a live to tape multi-camera shoot of a play for a DVD release. Speed Relationship-ing (2008), a short film which he wrote, directed and produced, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2008 Dances With Films Festival. He is a two-time Los Angeles Ovation Award nominee for his work at The Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles and served as the Artistic Director of The Attic Theater in LA for two seasons.

After graduating with a B.F.A. in Acting from Ohio University, Kernion continued studying in New York and Los Angeles under Uta Hagen, Howard Fine, and many others. He is a graduate of Lincoln Center Theatre's Directors Lab West and the Royal National Theatre where he studied under Toby Jones, Fiona Laird, Patsy Rodenburg, and Ian McKellan.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jerry Kernion