Personal life

LaPaglia was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest of three sons of Maria Johannes (née Brendel), a secretary, originally from the Netherlands and Gedio "Eddie" LaPaglia, an auto mechanic and car dealer from Bovalino, Calabria, Italy. His elder brothers are actor Anthony LaPaglia, and Michael LaPaglia, a car wholesaler in Los Angeles. Jonathan LaPaglia lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife and daughter.

Career

LaPaglia graduated from Rostrevor College, then the University of Adelaide with a degree in medicine. He worked three years as an emergency-room physician in Adelaide, Sydney and London. Feeling restricted, he decided to follow his brother into acting. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he joined the Circle in the Square Theatre School. He got his first break in 1996, when he joined the cast of TV show New York Undercover.

From 1998 until 2001 he played the role of Lt. Frank B. Parker on the science fiction series Seven Days. Afterwards, he played Detective Kevin Debreno, on The District from 2001-2004. LaPaglia has also guest starred in numerous series including The Sopranos, NCIS, Cold Case and Castle.

He appeared in the May 2008 issue of Car Craft magazine with his custom 6.1L Hemi '73 Dodge Challenger.

Most recently, he features as the protagonist, Hector, in the TV adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel The Slap produced for ABC TV. Though he is Australian, this is LaPaglia's first appearance in an Australian production. Having lived abroad for so many years, LaPaglia found it necessary to hire a dialect coach to recover his Australian accent.

His second role in an Australian production is set to be the title character of real life crime boss Anthony "Rooster" Perish in Channel Nine's Underbelly: Badness, which is the fifth series of the successful true crime drama series. In 2014 he will star in the movie "The Reckoning" alongside Luke Hemsworth. He is also a sports enthusiast and model.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996-1997	New York Undercover	Tommy McNamara	25 Episodes
1997	Deconstructing Harry	First Assistant Cameraperson/Harry's Character
1998	Inferno	Eddie	TV series
	Law & Order	Frank Russo (1 Episode,1998)- Grief (TV Episode 1998)	TV Episode
	Origin of the Species	Stan
1998-2001	Seven Days	Lt. Frank Parker	66 episodes, 1998-2001
2000	Under Hellgate Bridge	Vincent
2001-2004	The District	Det. Kevin Debreno	66 episodes, 2001-2004
2002	The Agency		Det. Kevin Debreno (1 episode - "Doublecrossover")
2004	The Dead Will Tell	Billy Hytner	Movie
	Plain Truth	Cooper	TV movie
2006	Brothers & Sisters	Bryan Walker	TV series(1 Episode, "Unaired Pilot")
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jack McCaskin	1 Episode
	Windfall	Dave Park	TV series(8 episodes, 2006)
2007	The Sopranos	Himself / Michael the Cleaver	Michael the Cleaver (1 episode, 2007)
	Gryphon	Prince Seth of Delphi	TV movie
2008	A Beautiful Life	Vince
	Bones	Anton Deluca	1 Episode, 2008 - "The Skull in the Sculpture"
	NCIS	Special Agent Brent Langer	2 Episodes, 2008
	Jack Rio	Devon Russel
	Moonlight	Jackson Monaghan	1 Episode, 2008 - "Sonata"
2008-2009	Cold Case	ADA Curtis Bell	5 Episodes, 2008-09
2009	Castle	John Knox	1 Episode, "Love Me Dead," 2009
2010	Burn Notice	Coleman (Harmless Weasel)	1 Episode, 2010
	Hit List	Detective Neil McKay
2011	The Slap	Hector	8 Episodes, 2011
2011	Final Sale	James Dolan	TV movie
2013	Underbelly: Badness	Anthony "Rooster" Perish	8 Episodes, 2012
	Pioneer	Ronald
2014	Love Child	Dr Patrick McNaughton	TV mini-series
	The Reckoning	Detective Robbie Green	pre-production

Director

Year	Title	Notes
2004	The District (1 episode, 2004)	"The Black Widow Maker" (2004) TV episode

Self

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	The Howie Mandel Show	Himself	Episode 1 dated 11 August 1998
2001	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Himself	Episode 1 dated 10 September 2001
2007	The Sopranos	Himself	Episode 1 (2007)
	Making Cleaver	Himself
2016	Australian Survivor	Himself	Host - Season 3

Archive Footage

Title	Notes
NCIS	"Collateral Damage"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]