About Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. He played FBI Special Agent Frank McPike in the television series Wiseguy (1987–1990), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Banks gained renewed recognition for his role as hitman and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut in the television series Breaking Bad (2009–2013). He reprised the role as a lead character in the spin-off series Better Call Saul (2015–2022) and had a cameo in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). For playing Ehrmantraut, he received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Banks' film projects include The Rose (1979), Airplane! (1980), Frances (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Armed and Dangerous (1986), There Goes the Neighborhood (1992), Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), Foolish (1999), Puff, Puff, Pass (2006), Identity Thief (2013) and The Commuter (2018). He also appeared prominently in the fifth season of Community (2014) and provided the voice of Commissioner Jim Gordon in the video game Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), and Brit in the animated series Invincible (2025–present). Banks was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Indiana University in April 2016. Banks graduated from Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Kevin Kline. For his role, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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