Jonathan Togo: The odds are so against you... They make like 50 pilots. Of the 50 there are parts for you in 20, and of those 20 there are 1000 guys auditioning for those 20 parts and 10 of them go to names, and of those pilots five go to air and one survives past the first year. So to get on a show as good and as successful as CSI: Miami, to be part of the franchise, is astonishing. I feel extremely lucky.
Jonhatan Togo:(talking about his apprehension of dead bodies or things in general) towards I couldn't dissect a frog. It made me nauseous.Now that I'm faced with it, the idea of actually seeing a dead body is daunting.
Jonathan Togo:(Talking of his first regular part on Special Unit 2) A lot of my friends went to grad school; I did Special Unit 2. I learned the method by which to memorize the jargon and get on set and sell that sort of dialogue.
Jonathan Togo:(Telling how he first discover CSI)Here's the funny thing-my girlfriend is obsessed with all of the CSIs. So I started watching and started getting into it. So to be a fan of it and then to be on it is a quick, really crazy jump.
Jonathan Togo: (About the chemistry on the set of CSI: Miami) Pretty great. I liked all of the actors immediately. We're sort of like a football team. David Caruso is quarterback, Emily is the wide receiver, Adam the linebacker, Khandi Alexander is the running back and I'm the punter.
In 2006, Togo and CSI: Miami co-star Brendan Fehr went up to Canada to visit the Degrassi: The Next Generation set
Jonhatan Togo began acting early, when he won the role of a Lollipop Kid in a community production of The Wizard of Oz. He kept at it, but didn't consider it as a career until he did an Equity stage play at 13.
His last name was oringinally Tonkaview but was shortened by a forefather who wanted something shorter for his carpet business.
Jonathan plays a saxophone and guitar and played in a punk rock/ska band called Skabba The Hut while at college.
Jonathan has a tattoo on his right shoulder of a clown waving a wand while riding a bee, which is an image from the joker found in older decks of playing cards.
Togo was picked for the role of Ryan Wolfe on "CSI: Miami" from an audition tape viewed by Ann Donahue.
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