Well known for LITTLE BABY BITTENS
Jonathan Van Ness (born March 28, 1987)[1] is an American hairdresser, podcaster, and television personality. He is known for the web series parody Gay of Thrones, hosting the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast, and as the grooming expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye.[2]
Early life
Van Ness was born and raised in Quincy, Illinois.[3] He was the first male cheerleader at Quincy Senior High School and continued this activity in college.[4][5]
Van Ness attended the University of Arizona, majoring in political science. Due to his habit of skipping class to watch reruns of The Golden Girls, his grades fell and he lost his cheerleading scholarship. Van Ness subsequently dropped out after one semester to pursue hairstyling.[6][7] He trained at the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis.[8] After graduating,[9] he worked in Arizona for 5 years,[10] before moving to Los Angeles, California in 2009.[4]
Career
Upon his arrival with no work arrangement or plan in Los Angeles, he found a job as a personal assistant at Sally Hershberger Salon.[4][9] He currently works at MoJoHair and Stile Salon, both in Los Angeles, which he co-founded with Monique Northrop at Arte Salon in New York City.[9]
In 2013, Van Ness was working on the hair of his friend Erin Gibson, who worked for the comedy website Funny or Die.[4] Gibson asked him to perform his recap of a Game of Thrones episode for Funny or Die, which became the Gay of Thrones web series.[11] Van Ness was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series in 2018 for the series.[12][13]
Since 2015, Van Ness has hosted the weekly podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.[14] His podcast took off upon the airing of the first Queer Eye episode.[15]
Van Ness currently stars as the grooming expert on the Netflix revival of Queer Eye.[16]
Personal life
Van Ness has always been openly gay[4] and was bullied throughout school to the point of receiving death threats. He used humor as a coping mechanism and relied on a small group of close friends to support him through it.[6] He currently works between Los Angeles and New York City.[17] He suffers from psoriasis.[18]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–2017 | Gay of Thrones | Jonathan | Series regular, 45 episodes |
| 2014 | I Love the 2000s | Himself | Series regular, 10 episodes |
| 2016 | Last Will and Testicle | Testicle | Episode: "Acceptance" |
| 2018–present | Queer Eye | Himself | Series regular, 16 episodes |
| 2018 | Nailed It! | Himself | Contestant, Episode: "3, 2, 1... Ya Not Done!!" |
| 2019 | Lip Sync Battle | Himself | Contestant, Season 5, Episode 1 |
Music videos
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix)" | Keala Settle, Kesha, & Missy Elliott |
Podcast episodes
2015
| Episode # | Date aired | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 15, 2015 | "What's the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims & why don't they love each other?" | Professor James Gelvin |
| 2 | December 23, 2015 | "What Was The First Christmas Really Like?" | Father Waylon |
2016
| Episode # | Date aired | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | January 6, 2016 | "Internet Security: What's Her Story?" | Samantha Corbin |
| 4 | January 20, 2016 | "What's a Menstrual Cup?" | Sullivan Oakley |
| 5 | February 3, 2016 | "Who is Bernie Sanders?" | Elizabeth Kaye |
| 6 | February 17, 2016 | "What is Agent Orange?" | Courtney Marsh |
| 7 | March 1, 2016 | "Who Were the Romanovs and What Happened to Them, Honey?" | Professor Brad Damare |
| 8 | March 15, 2016 | "What's It Like to be a Comedic Legend?" | Margaret Cho |
| 9 | March 22, 2016 | "What Constitutes an Eating Disorder?" | Ilon Varo |
| 10 | April 5, 2016 | "What are Strokes?" | Dr. Lina Nih |
| 11 | April 19, 2016 | "What is Gender Identity?" | Ian Harvie |
| 12 | May 4, 2016 | "What is it Like Living in China?" | Scarlett Wang |
| 13 | May 18, 2016 | "What is United Shades of America?" | W. Kamau Bell |
| 14 | June 1, 2016 | "What's it Like Being a Cancer Survivor?" | Byron Lane |
| 15 | June 15, 2016 | "What are Gravitational Waves and LIGO for Dummies?" | Professor Alan Weinstein |
| 16 | June 29, 2016 | "What's #Brexit?" | Mary O'Hara |
| 17 | July 13, 2016 | "What is Gun Control and Everytown?" | Andrei Berman and Taylor Maxwell |
| 18 | July 27, 2016 | "What's Going on in Brazil?" | Carla Dauden |
| 19 | August 10, 2016 | "What's Going on in HIV Research?" | Kayla McLaughlin |
| 20 | August 24, 2016 | "Mass Extinction: What's Her Story?" | Dr. Leryn Gorlitsky |
| 21 | September 7, 2016 | "How Do You Navigate Dating and Love?" | Stan Tatkin |
| 22 | September 21, 2016 | "What's it Like Modeling in Today's Fashion Industry?" | Denise Bidot |
| 23 | October 5, 2016 | "What's It Like Living in America Undocumented?" | Erick Zerecero |
| 24 | October 19, 2016 | "How Do You Overcome Lupus?" | Mercedes Yvette |
| 25 | November 2, 2016 | "What're the Down Ballot and Initiative Issues for 2016?" | Greg Srolestar |
| 26 | November 16, 2016 | "What the T Over at Marie Claire?" | Wanyi Jiang |
| 27 | November 30, 2016 | "What Was Your Journey to Becoming a Writer?" | Christopher Bernard |
| 28 | December 14, 2016 | "How Do You Interact With Vulnerability?" | Kyle Kreiger |
| 29 | December 28, 2016 | "How Was YOUR 2016?" | Zoe Jarman |
2017
| Episode # | Date aired | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | January 11, 2017 | "What Are You Up To, Lizzo?" | Lizzo |
| 31 | January 25, 2017 | "How Do you Find your Personal Style" | Orlando Soria |
| 32 | February 3, 2017 | "Who's Throwing Shade?" | Erin Gibson |
| 33 | February 8, 2017 | "How Did You Start With Psychedelics?" | Shane Mauss |
| 34 | February 22, 2017 | "What Was Jonathan Like As a Kid?" | Mary Winters |
| 35 | October 10, 2017 | "What's Going on in the Middle East Right Now?" | Dr. James Gelvin |
| 36 | October 26, 2017 | "What's the Giant Fuss About Artificial Intelligence?" | Dr. Ori Amir |
| 37 | November 8, 2017 | "Atlanic Pirates - What's the T?" | Rebecca Simon |
| 38 | November 23, 2017 | "How Did LA Become a Driving Dependent City?" | Christina Copland |
| 39 | December 7, 2017 | "How Come I Don't Know About the Armenian Genocide?" | Dr. Richard Hovannisian |
| 40 | December 20, 2017 | "Taking Care of Yourself Chinese-Style" | Dr. Teresa Wlasiuk |
2018
| Episode # | Date aired | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | January 4, 2018 | "What's Up with the Opioid crisis?" | Dr. Chris Evans |
| 42 | January 18, 2018 | "What Do White People Need to Know About Racism?" | Andrew Ti |
| 43 | February 5, 2018 | "What's it Really Like to be a Woman in the Military?" | Linsau Rousseau |
| 44 | February 14, 2018 | "Why Does it Hurt So Bad?" | Professor Catherine Cahill |
| 45 | February 23, 2018 | "What Was it Like Being a VJ?" | Dave Holmes |
| 46 | March 8, 2018 | "Is it Really a China Vs. America World?" | Ryan Patel |
| 47 | March 22, 2018 | Why's the Bail System Such a Hot Mess? | Tim Molina |
| 48 | April 4, 2018 | "Where Are You From, Antoni?" | Antoni Porowski |
| 49 | April 11, 2018 | "What Makes a Cult a Cult?" | Dr. Natalie Feinblatt |
| 50 | April 18, 2018 | "How can we be less rude to bees?" | Professor James Nieh |
| 51 | April 25, 2018 | "Has Britain Screwed Itself With Brexit?" | Mary O'Hara |
| 52 | April 30, 2018 | "What's It Like to Do A Triple Axel?" | Mirai Nagasu |
| 53 | May 9, 2018 | "Who Gave You Permission to be So Cute?" | Karamo Brown |
| 54 | May 16, 2018 | "Who Was the Beyonce of Renaissance Art?" | Professor Lisa Boutin Vitela |
| 55 | May 23, 2018 | "How Does Egg Donor Meet Egg 19 Years Later, Hunties?" | Amy Throckmorton and Elizabeth Gaba |
| 56 | May 30, 2018 | "Is Saudi Arabia Cute Now?" | Professor James Gelvin |
| 57 | June 6, 2018 | "Gender Bias in Film Scoring, What's Her Story?" | Jessica Rae Huber |
| 58 | June 13, 2018 | "British English and American English - What's the Diff?" | Helen Zaltzman |
| 59 | June 18, 2018 | "Who Are You, Tan?" | Tan France |
| 60 | June 27, 2018 | "How to Cut Suicide Rates Among LBGTQ Youth?" | Amit Paley |
| 61 | July 4, 2018 | "How to Apply Ethics to Everyday Life?" | Dr. Ryan Huber |
| 62 | July 10, 2018 | "Did Social Media Make Artists Need to Become Business People Too?" | Austyn Weiner |
| 63 | July 17, 2018 | "How Does Traumatic Family Separation Affect Children?" | Dr. Elizabeth Barnert |
| 64 | July 24, 2018 | "What's Your Origin Story?" | Bobby Berk |
| 65 | July 31, 2018 | "What Goes into a Song?" | Hrishikesh Hirway |
| 66 | August 7, 2018 | "How are the GOP Planning to Keep the Democrats Out of the Midterms?" | Tina Nguyen |
| 67 | August 14, 2018 | "Why is Abstinence Still Being Used to Treat Addiction?" | Dr. Adi Jeffe |
| 68 | August 21, 2018 | "How Did Kim Kardashian Break the Internet?" | Drew Elliott |
| 69 | August 28, 2018 | "Why Are There So Many Questions?" | Justin Theroux |
| 70 | September 4, 2018 | "What's it Like Being the Voice of a Generation?" | Michelle Wolf & Florence Welch |
| 71 | September 11, 2018 | "Being a Fierce Woman in Comedy?" | Nicole Byer & Erin Gibson |
| 72 | September 18, 2018 | "How Are You Bridging Social Media & Lady-Entrepreneurship?" | Reese Witherspoon |
Awards and honors
- 2018 Nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for Gay of Thrones[12][13]
References
External links
- ↑ Jonathan Van Ness on Instagram. Instagram, 27. März 2018, abgerufen am 29. März 2018: „I turn 31 tomorrow, what a year it's been. The reoccurring theme I’ve been shown is to advocate for yourself. Even when it means you may not please everyone, or it feels inconvenient. #selflove“
- ↑ Caitlin Gallagher: Who Is Jonathan Van Ness From ‘Queer Eye’? ‘Gay of Thrones’ Fans May Recognize This Hilarious Stylist. In: Bustle. 7. Februar 2018, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ Gerrad Hall: Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness on the moment that made him 'super-duper uncomfortable'. In: Entertainment Weekly. 8. Februar 2018, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e Matt Dutton: LIFE STORIES: Van Ness on whirlwind journey as one of Fab Five on Queer Eye reboot. In: Herald-Whig. 5. März 2018, abgerufen am 5. März 2018.
- ↑ Vorlage:Citation
- ↑ a b David Yi: The irresistible charm of ‘Queer Eye's’ resident sassy queen Jonathan Van Ness. 26. Februar 2018, abgerufen am 13. April 2018.
- ↑ Jonathan Van Ness's First Financial Principle: "I’m a girl who has to stop herself from shopping" In: Wealthsimple, June 15, 2018. Abgerufen im June 24, 2018
- ↑ Chris Thomas: Meet the Five Fab Men of Netflix's Queer Eye Reboot. In: Out. 8. Dezember 2017, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ a b c Jonathan Van Ness | Gay of Thrones Star | Queer Eye Netflix. In: Jonathan Van Ness. Abgerufen am 10. März 2018.
- ↑ You’re A Big Deal: Jonathan Van Ness, LA Hair Stylist. In: WBD. Abgerufen am 14. März 2018.
- ↑ Eric Diaz: A Chat with Jonathan Van Ness. Nerdist, 14. Juli 2014, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ a b Awards & Nominations: Gay Of Thrones. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ a b Erin Ben-Moche: Jonathan Van Ness is nominated for Gay of Thrones and Queer Eye—and he 'can't even' In: Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2018
- ↑ Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. In: Getting Curious Podcast. Archiviert vom am 17. Mai 2016; abgerufen am 19. Februar 2018.
- ↑ Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2018 (So Far). In: Vulture.com. 3. August 2018, abgerufen am 18. August 2018.
- ↑ Netflix Press Release. In: Netflix. Abgerufen am 18. Februar 2018.
- ↑ Layne Adams: Queer Eye 15 Facts About the New Fab Five. TheThings.com, 28. Februar 2018, abgerufen am 7. März 2018.
- ↑ Kayleigh Fasanella: Jonathan Van Ness Opens Up About Psoriasis, Skin Care, and Self-Acceptance With Allure. 23. März 2018, abgerufen am 25. Januar 2019.