Star File

Jon Jon Briones

Returning to Broadway this spring, Jon Jon Briones will star as Hermes in the Tony-award winning Hadestown. Previously he played the Engineer in the London West End & Broadway revival of Miss Saigon, a role which garnered him Olivier and Drama Desk nominations and a Theater World Award. Briones has a bustling career, encompassing stage, screen, and television. Most recently he starred in the Amblin feature The Last Voyage of the Demeter, played series regular ‘Gabriel Alonto’ in the FX limited series Class of 09, and Maurice in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. Briones is best known for his starring role in Ryan Murphy’s Golden Globe®-nominated Netflix series Ratched, where he portrayed Dr. Richard Hanover opposite Sarah Paulson. Other popular performances have been Modesto Cunanan in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Star Trek Picard, and American Horror Story. Briones lends his vocal talents to the ongoing Nickelodeon series Transformers: Earthspark as well as Trese on Netflix.