Biography
Friends and Family
Mrs. Lotah
[Mother]
(A director at a pharmaceutical company)
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Mr. Lotan
[Father]
(A Psychologist)
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 "There was a sense of esprit de corps among the cast," says Lotan. "We started thinking like soldiers. I haven`t been in such good shape since I was 18." "It was a fantastic experience. And it is like military service in that you`re involved in everyone`s lives, you know who`s having a tough time or an easy time, who broke up with his girlfriend, whose girlfriend is cheating on him. A person`s real personality comes out, too, because you can`t fool people for seven months. But we`re not a Marines unit. We slept in hotels, even if the conditions weren`t always that great. The work itself was very intensive and contributed to the overall feeling. You have to be in every scene since people in the Jeep convoy go together, so everyone is filmed for almost everything."
Film
(On filming Generation Kill)
[2008]
Have you ever met Guy Ritchie in connection with his work with Kelly?
"Guy is not a friend of hers, she`s just making a movie with him. And no, I don`t have tea with Madonna every Monday either."
Jealousy
(Kelly & Guy Gossip)
[2008]
Were you offended?
"Why should I be? Today`s papers are just used to wrap tomorrow`s fish."
Newspapers
(Upset over Guy Richie Gossip)
[2008]
Wasn`t it tough to suddenly read in the paper that your fiancee is having an affair with Madonna`s soon-to-be ex, and you didn`t know anything about it?
Lotan: "Come on, it`s just stupid."
Gossip
(Replying to reports that his fiance was involved with Guy Richie)
[2008]
"For the time being, I`m not leaving the United States, but in recent years there`s been an emergence of the Israeli voice in art after years of attempts to imitate the American and British method. Not only is it interesting, it`s the only way it will be successful, because Los Angeles draws talent from other places in the world. In this sense, Israel is more intriguing than Los Angeles. Movies like `Beaufort` and `Waltz with Bashir` have a language that`s unique to the place they come from, and I`m certain that if the filmmakers so desire, they`ll get offers from Los Angeles."
(When asked if he was returning to Israel soon.)
[2008]
How connected are you in Los Angeles? How long would it take you to get Madonna`s phone number?
"Megan, who`s a good friend of ours, once did a play with Madonna. I could call Megan and ask her if Madonna happened to leave her number. But I`m not interested in meeting Madonna. I`d rather meet Martin Scorsese."
People
(When asked about Madonna)
"I think I`m pretty boring compared to the kind of stories you`re imagining. There are drugs in L.A., just like there are in Tel Aviv and London and New York, but not in my world. Los Angeles is a fairly dull city in terms of going out. At 10, everyone`s already starting to get ready for bed. There`s not that much nightlife in the city. The purpose of Los Angeles is to create a fantasy and it does this very well. When you see the red carpet at the Oscars, you don`t know that most of the time the street out there looks like Allenby Street, full of drab and ugly tourist shops."
Life
(Talking about Los Angeles)
He and Reilly met in a New York restaurant two years ago. "I was there with friends and I saw this amazing woman, who was giggling the whole evening at the table next to mine," Lotan recounts dryly. "She was there with friends. I went up to her and introduced myself, and apparently it worked."
Love
(Jonah Lotan on Kelly Reilly)
Trivia
When he is told that the paparazzi were photographing him with Kelly in Tel Aviv, Lotan looks surprised. "I didn`t know they were taking my picture there. The paparazzi in Israel are an imitation of an unnecessary phenomenon from abroad, and it`s ridiculous because the radius here is so much smaller. It`s an intrusion into people`s privacy, just in order to sell papers and to create a false sense of celebrity-hood. I don`t think the public really cares. We lived for years just fine without paparazzi."
(haaretz.com)
He has two sisters: The youngest is about to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces, and the other is in the United States pursuing a doctorate in psychology. When he was 12, the family returned to Israel. He graduated from the Hebrew University Secondary School in Jerusalem.
In his early twenties, Lotan embarked on a brief modeling career and had several stints as a host on children`s TV shows on Channel 1. As he studied toward a degree in cinema at Tel Aviv University, he also acted in the telenovela "Kesef katlani" ("Lethal Money") and the children`s musical "Hakol agada" ("Everything is a Fairy Tale") with Michal Yanai. "Being in an Israeli telenovela is an experience akin to doing a musical in front of 2,000 people four times a day. It`s experience, regardless of what you think of the content or the level of acting," Lotan notes.
In recent years, Lotan has become one of the most prominent Israeli actors on American television. Unlike other local celebs who migrated to Los Angeles with much fanfare and then continued to report from there on every tiny scene they appeared in, Lotan, 35, pretty much disappeared from Israeli entertainment columns at the beginning of the decade, only to reemerge once he`d managed to establish a career for himself, with substantial roles in acclaimed series like "24" (as double agent Spenser Wolff) and "CSI."
(haaretz.com)
Yair Lotan has never met Madonna. The report that he was indirectly connected to her just-announced divorce struck him like a bolt out of the blue. The American magazine Us Weekly reported in its November 3 cover story on the singer`s divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie, and mentioned Ritchie`s new romance with British actress Kelly Reilly, who has a part in his new film, "Sherlock Holmes." But the report omitted one little fact: Reilly is already engaged - to Yair (Jonah) Lotan. The tabloid did, however, run a retraction in this week`s issue, stating: "There is and has been no romantic relationship between Kelly Reilly and Guy Ritchie. We apologize for any embarrassment caused to Ms. Reilly in our original report."
(haaretz.com)
Jonah Lotan appeared in TV shows such as 24 and CSI: New York and movies including One Night with the King
(fancast.com)
Jonah Lotan is an Israeli actor best known for his role as Navy Hm2 Robert Timothy `Doc` Bryan in the Iraq war television mini-series Generation Kill, in 2008.
(tvsa.co.za)
English-born Jonah is best-known for his current role on 24 as Spencer, Chloe`s boyfriend in season five. Also played in NY-LON
(movietome.com)
Jonah previously appeared in the British detective series Foyle`s War, London/New York cross-over show Ny-Lon.
(movietome.com)
Jonah joined the cast of 24 for it`s fifth season; he plays Spencer, the love interest to fan fave Chloe.
(celebrina.com)
Jonah starred in the Keira Knightley film The Jacket.
(tv.com)
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