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Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa is an American actor, model,
director, writer, and producer. He is known for his television roles as
Ronon Dex on the military science fiction television series Stargate.
Born Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 1st,
1979, Jason was raised in Norwalk, Iowa by his mother. After high
school, he moved to Hawaii where he landed a lead role out of thousands
of hopefuls in the TV series, Baywatch (known as "Baywatch Hawaii" in
its tenth season). When the show ended, he spent the next couple of
years traveling around the world. In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles where
he continued to pursue an acting career.In 2004, after the short-lived
TV series North Shore, he was cast as the popular character "Ronon Dex"
in the TV series Stargate: Atlantis, which achieved a cult-like
following. In 2010, he appeared in the Emmy-nominated HBO series Game of
Thrones playing the Dothraki King, "Khal Drogo". To illustrate to the
producers he was Khal Drogo, he performed the Haka, a traditional war
dance of the Maori of New Zealand. The audition was with the same
casting director who was casting the titular role in the reboot of Conan
the Barbarian. Four weeks after he was cast as the popular Robert E.
Howard character, he began shooting in Bulgaria. His approach, like the
filmmakers, was to pull from the eight decades of comics and stories as
well as the Frank Frazetta images rather than the hugely popular 1982
movie.Jason has a production company, "Pride of Gypsies", in which he is
expanding his career from actor to filmmaker. He has directed a couple
of short films and is working on his feature film debut "Road to Paloma"
which is pulled from a series of stories he's been developing over the
years which he calls the Brown Bag Diaries: Ridin' the Blinds in B
Minor.Jason lives with actress Lisa Bonet with whom he has two children:
Lola and Nakoa-Wolf. See full bio on IMDb »
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