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My Take
Johnny Lewis is a name that leaves a small ache when I sit with it. Born in Los Angeles, he built a real foothold on television, memorable as Half-Sack on Sons of Anarchy and visible across The O.C. and other series, the kind of working actor who quietly earns trust scene by scene. Then he was gone in 2012, only twenty-eight, before the wider world could fully take his measure. I am always drawn to talents who vanish before their promise is paid out. What remains lives only inside the work, and that fragility is exactly why I want to keep him in view.
Overview
Jonathan Kendrick Lewis (October 29, 1983 – September 26, 2012) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in the first two seasons of the FX series Sons of Anarchy, and for other television roles such as Gilby in The Sausage Factory (2001–2002), Pearce Chase in Quintuplets (2004–2005) and Dennis "Chili" Childress in The O.C. (2005–2006).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Johnny Lewis
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョニー・ルイス
- Reading
- じょにー・るいす
- Born
- October 29, 1983 – September 26, 2012
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Boar
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lewis
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.