ABOUT JAASON

At age 24, Tasmanian actor Jaason Simmons had his first glimpse of American celebrity as one billion people got to know him playing the cocky Australian lifeguard Logan Fowler on TV’s pop culture hit ‘Baywatch’. One in five people tuned in to 'Baywatch' from 142 countries every week.

After 3 years on the show, he walked away from Hollywood and returned to stage school to study theatre with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner. Jaason soon started to experiment with independent movies, taking on controversial roles including the Greg Arakis feature film 'Nowhere' starring with Christina Applegate and Heather Graham.

The spring of 2004 marked Jaasons UK theatrical debut as he took to the London stage in the much-acclaimed 'Eroica', directed by the noted film and stage director Paul Warner. The following summer, Jaason returned to the London stage to star as Sergei Medvedev in 'The End of the Sentence', a psychological thriller set in present day Moscow, directed by Adam Meggido.

Jaason then took up the challenge to play the Dad and Husband in Steven Berkoff's 'Greek', directed by Marcus Graham at the Punk Palace in Brisbane.

After completing the award winning independent movie ‘Mad Cowgirl’, a dark comedy directed by Greg Hatanaka, Jaason returned to Los Angles where he recently shot a TV pilot with actors Elaine Hendrix (Parent Trap, What the Bleep Do We Know) David Rees Snell (The Shield) and Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break).

Jaason is currently in the process of creating his own web based dram-edy series with fellow Australian Actor Ben Steel (Home and Away).

At present Jaason is writing a memoir; recounting his experiences traveling from Hobart Tasmania to Hollywood and the journey of coming out globally as a gay leading man.

He has also been offered the co-lead in the actor thriller ‘The Package’, which is scheduled to be shot in Europe this Fall.

Jaason continues to campaign heavily to save Tasmania’s rain forests from being wiped out by old growth logging. He works hard on behalf of the endangered species that are rapidly declining due to these heavy deforesting practices.