Jon Mack(I)

Jon Mack was born in Rochester, Michigan. She grew up on a 180 acre farm owned by her grandparents. The only child of a drama teacher and theater director, she made her stage debut at age of 5. She is of Polish and Lithuanian and Russian descent. After high school, Mack attended the prestigious NYU Tisch School of Arts and studied theater under both Lee Strasberg Institute and Experimental Theater programs. After college, Jon relocated to Los Angeles to continue post graduate studies at UCLA. At this time, she began working in feature films. She first came to national attention with her performance as Ava Gardner in the Emmy Award winning biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) starring Halle Berry. From there she went on to appear in several feature films as well as television. She played a junkie named Jane in Saw VI (2009) a soccer mom hoping to score with Gerard Butler in Playing for Keeps (2012). In 2015, Mack played Reggie, a gun slinger in Blunt Force Trauma (2015) alongside Mickey Rourke, Ryan Kwanten and Freida Pinto. Following that, she played a street-wise prostitute in Kill Chain (2019) alongside Nicolas Cage. Her recent projects include Taken from Rio Bravo (2024) and Based on the Original Night of the Living Dead (2026) Mack is also an accomplished musician, singer, songwriter and producer. Her brainchild Auradrone has released 3 albums independently and performed in festivals around the world. Animal welfare and preserving endangered wildlife are also a huge passion for Mack who created her foundation Defending the Endangered in 2015 to raise awareness and aid against poaching and trophy hunting. In 2024 she directed Love Song for A Mermaid (2025) in partnership with Defending the Endangered which garnered much attention on the festival circuit and has won several awards including Best Actress, Best Director, Best Writer and Best Producer for the short film.