Education
Jonas Nay attended Johanneum zu Lübeck, a Gymnasium with a music specialism, where he also played in the school"s Big-Band.
Jonas Nay attended Johanneum zu Lübeck, a Gymnasium with a music specialism, where he also played in the school"s Big-Band.
Because of his interest in the theatre, Nay replied to a newspaper advert looking for actors in 2004. He landed a starring role in the German children"s series Vier gegen Z on German television station NDR, with the Hollywood actor Udo Kier, who played a villain. In the first two seasons of the television series, Nay acted under the pseudonym Jonas Friedebom, and he played the character Otti Sörensen.
In the following years, he played minor roles in several television productions on German television stations Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator and ZDF. After graduation, he played the lead role in the television series Home Video, a drama about a young boy, bullied by his classmates who publish an intimate video of him.
The production was awarded the 2011 German Television for the best television film. This work was followed by other leading roles in television films.
In 2012, Nay participated in the last scene of the Hamburg investigator "Cenk Batu", Crime Scene: The Ballad of Cenk and Valerie, about a disturbed serial killer who is killed by his mother in the heat of the moment. Jonas Nay opted for Zivildienst, rather than military service, working with people with disabilities.
He went on to look at film scoring.
He founded the band Concerted with other students in Johanneum, in which he sang, played guitar and piano, and wrote the lyrics. The band worked on music for the Stephan Rick film The Good Neighbour in January 2013. The result was the forming of the new band Northern Lights.
2011: German Television, Award for Home Video 2012: Grimme-Preis Award for Home Video 2012: New Faces Award for Home Video 2012: Günter-Strack Award for Home Video 2014: Bavarian Film Award in 2013 as best young actor for Hirngespinster 2016: German Television, Best Actor Award for Deutschland 83, Tannbach.
