- He is the founder of the Pegasus Fund, a non-for-profit charity camp for disadvantaged students in the Los Angeles, California area. Pegasus' mission statement: "The Pegasus Fund supplements the academic journey of top-performing students in underserved communities by sending them to summer camp as a means to help prepare them for the new geographic and social environments of the private secondary schools they plan to attend".
- His father, Paul Hayes Tucker, is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on Claude Monet and French Impressionism art.
- Born and raised in Boston's traditionally Irish neighborhood of Charlestown.
- Attended and apprenticed with the Boston Ballet; playing 'Fritz' in their 1991 production of "The Nutcracker" when he was in third grade, and was also featured in that same year's Boston Ballet calendar.
- He and his wife have twins, b. May 15, 2019.
- His charity, The Pegasus Fund, received $50k after he won CNBC's Celebrity Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. Jonathan was on top of the leaderboard for much of the contest. He was no lower than 4th at any time.
- Elected not to commit to Columbia University, where he was offered early admission, to pursue his acting career full time.
- His sex scene with Josh Lucas in The Deep End (2001), considered his "breakout role," was filmed on his eighteenth birthday, to avoid legal implications.
- During some summers in the 1990s, he attended summer camp at Camp Chingachgook, on Lake George, in Pilot Knob, New York, USA, geographically part of the Adirondacks region.
- His father has Irish and English ancestry. His mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia, Romania, Poland, and Austria).
- Attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California.
- Son of Maggie Moss Tucker and Paul Hayes Tucker of Boston, Massachusetts; and since his 2012 marriage to Tara Ahamed Tucker, he is son-in-law of Meenakshi Ahamed and Liaquat Ahamed of Washington D.C.
- On his father's side, is a nephew of Mary Evelyn Tucker and her husband John Grim, who founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology, at Yale, of which they are co-directors. Also on his father's side, Jonathan is a great-grandson of historian Carlton J. H. Hayes, who was U.S. Ambassador to Spain, from 1942 to 1945.
- Attended the Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- Los Angeles, California: Actor (June 2012)
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