Jonathan Roumie: 5 Things To Know About The Actor Playing Jesus In ‘The Chosen’

Jonathan Roumie is an American histrion and dependable artist. He plays Jesus successful the show The Chosen. He does voice-over enactment for video games.

Jonathan Roumie is Jesus in The Chosen. The histrion plays the Son of God successful the historical play series that has already produced 3 seasons. The amusement is astir to turn successful popularity erstwhile it begins airing connected The CW connected Sunday, July 16. A caller assemblage volition witnesser Jonathan’s singular show arsenic Jesus connected the tiny screen.

So, who is Jonathan Roumie? The Chosen isn’t his archetypal acting role, but it’s decidedly his biggest. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Jonathan.

Jonathan Roumie successful ‘The Chosen’ (Photo: The CW)

Jonathan plays Jesus in The Chosen.

Jonathan is the pb prima of The Chosen, which follows Jesus successful the 1st century. The faith-based bid recovered occurrence acknowledgment to crowdfunding, meaning radical contributed wealth to assistance the amusement continue. The Chosen premiered successful 2019 and the latest play (season 3) finished successful February 2023. Jonathan starred successful different large spiritual project, the 2023 film Jesus Revolution. He played American Charismatic evangelist Lonnie Frisbee.

He’s been successful respective fashionable TV shows.

Jonathan’s TV acting credits include Law & Order, Castle, Hart of Dixie, NCIS, The Good Wife, The Mindy Project, Chicago Med, and more, according to his IMDb. Right now, his committedness is The Chosen, which is expected to instrumentality for play 4 successful 2024.

Jonathan Roumie (Photo: The CW)

He’s a dependable artist.

Jonathan has lent his dependable to galore video games implicit the years, including Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4. The latest video crippled helium tin beryllium heard successful is Saints Row, which came retired successful August 2022.

He’s religious.

Jonathan is highly religious, which is however helium ended up on The Chosen. He’s a practicing Catholic and and was baptized successful the Greek Orthodox Church. He’s spoken astir however helium believes helium was ever meant to play Jesus in The Chosen.

He doesn’t enactment abortion.

As a devout Catholic, Jonathan is pro-life and does not enactment abortion. He adjacent spoke astatine the 2023 March for Life. He pointed to the entity and said, “This feline made maine bash it. And I’m a amended antheral for it,” according to Desert News.

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