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. From his screen debut in Tom Ford's A Single Man, the trajectory from Versace ads to actual roles tells me he wanted to be taken seriously, not just photographed.

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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)

Origin

Bilbao, Biscay, Spain

Height

188 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / model / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jonkortajarena/
• Xhttps://x.com/jonkortajarena
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Kortajarena
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716527

Tags

• Biscay
• actor
• film actor
• model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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