Bio
Jason George (also credited as Jason Winston George) is an American actor best known for his starring role as J.T. Hunter in the television sitcom Eve, from 2003-2006.
He also played the starring role of Otis - a tough, plain-spoken and highly respected doctor at Clinica Cruz del Sur - in the medical drama series Off the Map, in 2010.
In 1996, while still a graduate student in Philadelphia, George went to an open call at a local mall for Aaron Spelling's new daytime drama, Sunset Beach. During the nationwide talent search, casting directors saw more than 14,000 hopefuls, but George landed the regular role of gang leader turned lifeguard Michael Bourne.
Since then, George has been a series regular on such hit television shows as the UPN half-hour comedy Eve, the DreamWorks/WB series Off Centre and the one-hour drama Platinum.
In the past few years he was a series regular on the JJ Abrams/ABC series What About Brian and ABC's Eli Stone, opposite Johnny Lee Miller, Victor Garber and Loretta Devine, and was a recurring guest star on ABC's Eastwick and Grey's Anatomy.
George's feature credits include Paramount's Clockstoppers, Screen Gems' Three Can Play at that Game and, most notably, the MGM comedy Barbershop, directed by Tim Story, starring alongside Anthony Anderson, Ice Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas and Cedric the Entertainer.
Born and raised in Virginia Beach, VA, George majored in rhetoric and communication studies at the University of Virginia and later honed his craft earning an MFA from Temple University's theatre department.
He starred in U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove's epic drama, The Darker Face of the Earth, in Los Angeles, a relocation of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex to a South Carolina cotton plantation in 1820 which received accolades from the Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter.
George currently lives in Los Angeles. He serves on the Board of Directors for Temple University's School of Communication and Theater as well as the National and Los Angeles board of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists.
He has a starring role as Dominic Taylor, a lawyer and coworker of Savi's who's ambitious, reliable and competitive, in the television drama series Mistresses.