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Ron Cephas Jones

Highest Rated: 86% A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

Lowest Rated: 33% The Holiday Calendar (2018)

Birthday: Jan 8, 1957

Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Born in Paterson, NJ, Ron Cephas Jones acting career began in the early 1990s. Although he was primarily a stage actor, Jones made regular on screen appearances in guest roles. In 1996, he appeared in "New York Undercover" (Fox 1994-98) and "Law & Order" (NBC, 1990-2010), then in the Spike Lee film "He Got Game" (1998) starring Denzel Washington. 2012 was a busy one for Jones, appearing in at least three plays, including "Storefront Church" written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Giancarlo Esposito at the Atlantic Theatre, and the lead role in the Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit version of Shakespeare's "Richard III." The stripped down 95 minute version of the play put up each performance in a different venue around New York City: a church, a Senior Center, Riker's Island, to name a few. The next year, Jones landed his first recurring role, on "Low Winter Sun" (AMC, 2013). Jones' greatest exposure to date would come in 2015, when he appeared in the hit show "Mr. Robot" (USA, 2015-) as a member of the mysterious hacker organization F Society. In 2016, Jones appeared in two more high profile series: "The Get Down" (Netflix, 2016- ), Baz Luhrmann's musical chronicle of the birth of rap and hip hop; and "This Is Us" (NBC, 2016- ) a comedy-drama hybrid about a racially-mixed set of siblings. Ron Cephas Jones died on August 19, 2023 at the age of 66.

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Highest rated movies

86% 70% A Raisin in the Sun
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85% 44% Glass Chin
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67% Naked Acts
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63% 75% Dog Days Watchlist 33% 42% The Holiday Calendar Watchlist
Ashes
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A Day in Black and White
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
33% 42% The Holiday Calendar Gramps (Character) - 2018
63% 75% Dog Days Walter (Character) $6.8M 2018
85% 44% Glass Chin Ray Ellington (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ashes Floyd (Character) - 2010
86% 70% A Raisin in the Sun Willy Harris (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Day in Black and White Unknown (Character) - 1999
67% No Score Yet Naked Acts Joel (Character) $22.0K 1996

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71% 62% Genius Elijah Muhammad (Character) 2024
No Score Yet 69% Truth Be Told Leander "Shreve" Scoville (Character) 2019-2021 2023
94% 81% This Is Us William (Character),
William Hill (Guest Star)
2016-2019 2022
No Score Yet 82% Law & Order: Organized Crime Congressman Leon Kilbride (Guest Star) 2021-2022
53% 48% Lisey's Story Unknown (Character) 2021
92% 91% Looking for Alaska Dr. Hyde (Character) 2019
94% 93% Mr. Robot Unknown (Guest Star) 2015-2016
91% 79% The Blacklist Dr. Covington (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 76% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1996-1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet New York Undercover Unknown (Guest Star) 1996