No, he's not Javier Bardem
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966) is an American actor.
He is best known for portraying Denny Duquette in the Medical Drama Grey's Anatomy for parts of three seasons (2006-2009), John Winchester on Supernatural, The Comedian in the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, and Ike Evans in Magic City. He is currently playing the role of Jason Crouse on the TV series The Good Wife. He began playing Negan in AMC's The Walking Dead sixth Season Finale and was made a regular cast member in the seventh season.
He's been married twice. First with actress Anya Longwell (1998-2003), then currently with Hilarie Burton (2014-present).
Selected Filmography (e.g. works that have TV Tropes pages):
- JAG (1995) as Weapons Officer
- Sliders (1996) as Sid
- Walker, Texas Ranger (2000) as Jake Horbart
- ER (2001) as Firefighter Larkin
- The Practice (2002) as Daniel
Glenn - Angel (2002) as Sam Ryan
- CSI (2003) as Undercover Agent
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2003) as Xindi-Reptillian
- Tru Calling (2004) as Geofrrey Pine
- Monk (2004) as Steven Light
- Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004) as Tom Newman
- The O.C. (2005) as Joe Zukowski
- Weeds (2005) as Judah Botwin
- Supernatural (2005-2007, 2019) as John Winchester/Azazel
- Grey's Anatomy (2006-2009) as Denny Duquette
- Fred Claus (2007) as Man Getting Parking Ticket
- P.S. I Love You (2007) as William Gallagher
- Watchmen (2009) as Edward Blake / The Comedian
- Taking Woodstock (2009) as Dan
- The Losers (2010) as Clay
- Jonah Hex (2010) as Jeb Turnbull
- The Possession (2012) as Clyde Brenek
- Red Dawn (2012) as Sgt. Maj. Andrew Tanner USMC
- Shameless (2014) as Charlie Peters
- The Salvation (2014) as Delarue
- Extant (2015) as JD Richter
- The Good Wife (2015-2016) as Jason Crouse
- Solace (2015) as Agent Joe Merriweather
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) as Dr. Thomas Wayne
- The Walking Dead (2016-) as Negan
- Robot Chicken (2017) as Negan
- Rampage (2018) as Agent Russell
- Tekken 7 (2019) as Negan
Tropes
- Badass Baritone: He is known for his distinctively deep voice. Works well in his villainous roles.
- Badass Beard: He frequently appears on-screen with facial hair, whether it's Perma-Stubble or Beard of Evil. Sometimes even both.
- Chronically Killed Actor: His characters tend to die. A lot.
- Creator Backlash: An early role as a Xindi in Star Trek: Enterprise was such a miserable experience (largely due to the heavy makeup triggering his claustrophobia) that he nearly gave up on acting entirely.
- Dawson Casting: He played Batman's father, Thomas Wayne, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While Morgan is six years older than Ben Affleck, who plays Batman, the movie has a scene where Bruce laments the fact that "[He's] older than [his] father ever was".
- Dyeing for Your Art:
- Learned to play the guitar for his part in P.S. I Love You, after about a week of lessons from Heart's Nancy Wilson.
- Had a tattoo of a revolver made on his right arm during the shooting of The Salvation.
- Old Shame: His role as a Monster of the Week on Star Trek: Enterprise, which he stated nearly made him quit acting.
- Playing Gertrude:
- He's only twelve and sixteen years older than his Supernatural sons Jensen Ackles (older) and Jared Padalecki (younger).
- As The Comedian in Watchmen. While the character was Age Lifted in flashbacks, he was still a 42-year old playing a character in his 60s during his death. He was also 12 years older than Malin Åkerman, who played Comedian's daughter, Silk Spectre.
- Rated M for Manly: His characters are all masculine and badass.
- Romance on the Set: He was briefly engaged to his former Weeds costar Mary-Louise Parker in 2008.
- Star-Making Role: After appearing in Supernatural, his acting profile began to skyrocket.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Stands 6'2 and frequently play imposing characters.
- You Look Familiar: Played two different characters on JAG.
