Name
Jonathan Kos-Read
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1973-02-17 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
Torrance, California, USA
Biography
Jonathan Kos-Read (born 1973), also known as Cao Cao (Chinese: 曹操; pinyin: Cáo Cāo), is an American film and television actor based in the People's Republic of China. While well known in China, his work is little-known in the United States. Kos-Read uses the stage name Cao Cao, which is also the name of the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a historical figure well-known to most Chinese people.
Known For
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A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and Nor...
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In 1917 young Ip Man first came to Hong Kong to study, but his peaceful campus life was un...
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In 1932, a prisoner escapes from a women's prison in northern China. Inspector Song Donglu...
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A biographical drama covering roughly the first 18 years in the life of Lang Lang, the wor...
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To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world fe...
- 2016 Dad's Cabin as Davy
- 2009 Empire of Silver as Pastor Landdeck
- 2023 The Abyss Rescue
- 2022 Snipers as John
- 2020 Electromagnetic King Pili Family as Bai Jiage
- 2009 My Fair Gentleman
- 2017 Mr. Made as Made
- 2016 The Bodyguard as Ding's Son-in-law
- 2017 The Game Changer as Owen
- 2015 The Vanished Murderer as Foreign official
- 2015 Ever Since We Love as Dick
- 2010 Super Player as Gai Te
- 2008 Fit Lover
- 2023 怒海浩劫
- 2015 Ip Man 3 as Edward
- 2015 Mojin: The Lost Legend as Mark
- 2016 Xuan Zang as Cunningham
- 2011 Cold Steel as John
- 2013 The Twins' Code as Daniel
- 1992 Confessions of a Male Prostitute as Jamie, the hustler
- 2017 Eternal Wave as Pierre
- 2020 Young Ip Man: Crisis Time as Principal Stewart
- 2020 A Day Deal as Flok
- 2025 You are the Best as Holmes
- 2018 Wait Here as Lorenzo
- 2026 Operation Black-Ops
- 2026 Operation Hummingbird as Casa
- 2003 For the Sake of the Republic ( 68 episodes ) as 莫里逊 George Ernest Morrison
- 2016 Mother's Romance ( 42 episodes ) as 瑞尼
- 2016 My Uncle Zhou Enlai ( 41 episodes ) as 李克
- 2002 青春不解风情 ( 21 episodes )
- 2011 Shangri-la ( 36 episodes )
- 2004 Romantic Life ( 32 episodes ) as 欧文
- 2009 My Chief and My Regiment ( 43 episodes ) as Alger Collins
- 2015 Guardians of Ancient Magic ( 32 episodes )
- 2002 青春的童话 ( 17 episodes )
- 2001 都市丽人行 ( 20 episodes )
- 2022 From Love to Happiness ( 36 episodes ) as Cao Cao [Xiao Wei's friend]
- 2008 A Hundred Years of Life ( 40 episodes ) as 伊万
