Jon Kortajarena

I think of Jon Kortajarena as proof that a model can age into something more interesting than a face. Coming out of Bilbao, he stacked up campaigns for Tom Ford, H&M, Zara and Guess, and Forbes even slotted him into its most successful male models list back in 2009. What gets me is that he didn't just coast on that. He pushed into acting, film and television, treating the runway as a starting line rather than a ceiling. There's a quiet ambition there I respect. The data on him is thin, but the trajectory from Versace ads to actual roles tells me he wanted to be taken seriously, not just photographed.

Name (English)

Jon Kortajarena

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・コルタジャレナ

Reading

じょん・こるたじゃれな

Born

May 19, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Origin

Bilbao, Biscay, Spain

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / model / television actor

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jonkortajarena/
• Xhttps://x.com/jonkortajarena
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8A

Tags

• Biscay
• actor
• film actor
• model

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.