# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-gries
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:30.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-gries"
name: "Jon Gries"
slug: "jon-gries"
description: "Jonathan Gries is an American actor and music video director. He is best known for portraying Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite (2004), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male; the recurring role of Roger Linus on Lost (2007–2010); and Greg Hunt on The White Lotus (2021–present). He is also known for other film and television credits such as Real Genius (1985), The Monster Squad (1987), Martin (1992–1994), Get Shorty (1995), The Pretender (1996–2000), the Taken trilogy (2008–2014), and Dream Corp LLC (2016–2020)."
tagline: "American actor, writer, director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Gries_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           23.355252
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0340973"
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    url:       "http://www.jongries.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump