Jonny Lewis(I)

Jonny Lewis started acting at age 45 after being invited to a theatre audition "just to watch." After lead roles in 3 Off-Off-Broadway shows in 2002, and winning a Best Actor award for the first short film he ever acted in, he moved to Los Angeles, where he did 150 student and indie films in 8 years. While taking care of his elderly mother in Michigan from 2014 to late 2019, Jonny occasionally flew back to LA to shoot short films that earned him 20 awards on IMDb (plus another 7 awards from non-IMDb festivals) and 150 festival appearances. After a year as a nomad in Asia, Jonny ended up in Siberia for a year, and moved to Moscow in May 2025. In 2025 Jonny finished 3 feature scripts, including "Sgt. Meat," the absurd but true "as told to" story of a U.S. Army medic in the Iraq War, and "The Grief Ranch," about six people at a remote ranch who must help each other through their grief when the planned-on grief counselor goes into early labor and cannot attend. Jonny finished a smaller budget script in January 2026. Then he wrote a sci-fi script about two VR gamers who are transported into game realities. One is in mortal danger, and the other--a teenage girl with vitiligo--does not want to come back. He then wrote a thriller about a 14-year-old-girl who regenerates her leg after it is amputated in an accident, and is now working on a medical thriller about Big Medicine. He lives in Moscow with his girlfriend Mila. They plan to move to the U.S. in late 2027.