Monroe Jackson Rathbone V (born December 14, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and musician best known for his roles as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga and Sokka in the live-action The Last Airbender (2010). From 2008 to 2012, he was the vocalist and occasional guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist of the funk rock band 100 Monkeys.

Early life Monroe Jackson Rathbone V was born in Singapore on December 14, 1984, the son of American parents Randee Lynn (née Brauner) and Monroe Jackson Rathbone IV. He has three sisters, including ceramic artist Kelly Rathbone. He is distantly related to Civil War general Stonewall Jackson and English actor Basil Rathbone, being descended from the Rathbone family of Liverpool. His great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, was the chairman of Standard Oil, which later became Exxon. Because his father's job at Mobil Oil took the family to different places, he lived in Singapore, Norway, and Indonesia before settling in Midland, Texas.

Rathbone attended the Trinity School of Midland and started out in local theater with the Pickwick Players youth actors program, initially doing musical theater. For his junior and senior years of high school, he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where he majored in acting. After graduation, he planned to further study acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, but was rejected and instead decided to move to Los Angeles to look for acting work.

Career

After being in Los Angeles for a short time, Rathbone was cast in Disney 411, where he interviewed up-and-coming personalities like Hilary Duff and the sister duo Aly & AJ. He also had guest roles on The O.C. and Close to Home. His film roles include work in Molding Clay, Pray for Morning, and Travis and Henry. In 2005, he got the role of Nicholas Fiske in ABC Family's original series Beautiful People. In a 2008 interview, he stated it was his first leading role and was his most difficult role to fit into.

In 2008, he played Jasper Hale in the film Twilight, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer. He reprised his role in the sequels to Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2. In 2009, Rathbone played Jeremy in S. Darko. In addition to that role, he won kudos for his performance as a serial killer on Criminal Minds. Rathbone played the role of Sokka in The Last Airbender, a 2010 film based on the animated series.

Rathbone formerly performed in a funk band called 100 Monkeys with two friends whom he met in high school at Interlochen Arts Academy, Ben Graupner and Ben Johnson, as well as close friends Jerad Anderson and M. Lawrence Abrams ("Uncle Larry"). Jackson plays the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, mandolin, trumpet, harmonica and is on vocals. The band released three albums in 2009. In December 2009, 100 Monkeys began a 100-city tour that took them to nearly every state in the US by mid-2010. The band continued to tour into 2011 to coincide with the release of their new album, Liquid Zoo, which was released in June. The band headed overseas for their first international dates in winter 2011.

Rathbone appeared in an episode of No Ordinary Family on November 9, 2010.tvbythenumbers.com Can A Live Twitter Chat Help No Ordinary Family Ratings? In November 2010, it was reported he had been cast in the Warner Premiere and Dolphin Entertainment action comedy web series Aim High alongside Aimee Teegarden. The show in which he portrays Nick Green, a high school junior who's just starting a new school year as one of the country's 64 highly trained teenage operatives, premiered on October 18, 2011, on Facebook being the first "social series" ever created.

Charity work Rathbone is an honorary board member for Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools. He has shown support for the organization in several ways, including donating a signed Twilight script for auction, visiting a Little Kids Rock classroom, and delivering instruments to students.

Personal life Rathbone married Sheila Hafsadi on September 29, 2013. Hafsadi is Iraqi-American. They reside in Alpharetta, Georgia, and have three children: a son born July 5, 2012, a daughter born May 31, 2016, and another son born January 5, 2020. His close friend and Twilight co-star Nikki Reed is the godmother of their elder son.

On September 18, 2014, Rathbone was on a JetBlue flight to Austin from Long Beach when its engine exploded. The plane returned to Long Beach for an emergency landing. There were four injured, but all passengers survived."Jackson Rathbone live-blogs emergency landing of his JetBlue plane" Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-6-30.

Filmography Film Year Title Role NotesRef 2005 River's End Jimmy 2006 Pray for Morning Connor 2007 Big Stan Robbie the Hippie 2008 Senior Skip Day Snippy Direct to video TwilightJasper Hale2009 S. Darko Jeremy Frame Dread Stephen Grace Hurt Conrad Coltrane The Twilight Saga: New Moon Jasper Hale 2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Last Airbender Sokka Girlfriend Russ Young Again Adult Ethan Short film2011 100 Monkeys: Modern Time Red Short film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Jasper Hale 2012 Zombie Hamlet Shakespeare Purist Uncredited Cowgirls n' Angels Justin Wood Direct to video The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Jasper Hale 2013 The Magic Bracelet Geoff Short film Live at the Foxes Den Bobby Kelly 2014 City of Dead Men Jacob 2015 Pali Road Neil Lang2016 100 Monkeys: The Fair Musician Short film My Husband's Wife Kyle 2017 Horseshoe Theory Bobbo Justice Thomas McCord 2018 Samson Rallah 2019The Wall of MexicoDonovan Taylor Do Not Reply Brad 2020 Until We Meet Again Eddie Conway 2021 Mixtape Wes Kelley 2022 Warhunt Walsh 2023 Condor's Nest Fritz Ziegler 2023 The Island Phil 2024 Books & Drinks David Weiss

Television Year Title Role Notes2005Beautiful PeopleNicholas FiskeMain role; 16 episodes Close to Home Scott Fields Episode: "Romeo and Juliet Murders" 2006 The O.C. Justin Edwards 2 episodes2007 The War at Home Dylan 2 episodes The Valley of Light Travis Hallmark movie 2009 Criminal Minds Adam Jackson Episode: "Conflicted" 2010 No Ordinary Family Trent Stafford Episode: "No Ordinary Visitors" 2013 White Collar Nate Osbourne Episode: "Shoot the Moon" 2013 Family Guy Stanley Kowalski Episode: "Brian’s Play" NTSF:SD:SUV:: Jesse James Episode: "The Great Train Stoppery" Finding Carter Jared Peters 12 episodes 2017 The Last Ship Giorgio 8 episodes 2022 The Guardians of Justice Blue Scream

Web Year Title Role Notes 2011–2013 Aim High Nick Green 16 episodes, also executive producer

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