Jackson Rathbone
Monroe Jackson Rathbone V (born December 14, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and musician best known for his role as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga film series. From 2008 to 2012, he was the vocalist and occasional guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist of the funk rock band 100 Monkeys.
Jackson Rathbone
American
- Actor
- singer
- musician
2005–present
3
Monroe Jackson Rathbone II (great-grandfather)
Early life[edit]
Monroe Jackson Rathbone V[1][2] was born in Singapore on December 14, 1984,[3] the son of American parents Randee Lynn (née Brauner) and Monroe Jackson Rathbone IV. He has three sisters, including ceramic artist Kelly Rathbone.[4][5][6] He is distantly related to Civil War general Stonewall Jackson and English actor Basil Rathbone, being descended from the Rathbone family of Liverpool.[7] His great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, was the chairman of Standard Oil, which later became Exxon.[6] Because of his father's job at Mobil Oil took the family to different places, he lived in Singapore, Norway, and Indonesia before settling in Midland, Texas.[8]
Rathbone attended the Trinity School of Midland and started out in local theater with the Pickwick Players youth actors program, initially doing musical theater.[9] For his junior and senior years of high school, he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where he majored in acting.[8][9] After graduation, he planned to further study acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, but was rejected and instead decided to move to Los Angeles to look for acting work.[8]
Charity work[edit]
Rathbone is an honorary board member for Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools. He has shown support for the organization in several ways, including donating a signed Twilight script for auction, visiting a Little Kids Rock classroom, and delivering instruments to students.[24]
Personal life[edit]
Rathbone married his Iraqi-American girlfriend, Sheila Hafsadi, on September 29, 2013.[25][26][27] They reside in Alpharetta, Georgia,[8] and have three children: a son born July 5, 2012,[28] a daughter born May 31, 2016,[29] and son born January 5, 2020.[30] His close friend and Twilight co-star Nikki Reed is the godmother of their oldest son.
On September 18, 2014, Rathbone was on a JetBlue flight to Austin from Long Beach when its engine exploded. The plane returned to Long Beach for an emergency landing. There were four injured, but all passengers survived.[31][32]