Anecdotes

His nose has been broken a reported 14 times to date (2018).

His parents are both from Ashkenazi Jewish families (Jon's maternal grandfather was born in Munich, Germany, and Jon's other ancestors emigrated from Austria, Russia, Poland, and Lithuania).

Bernthal cites the event in 2009 as the epiphany that made him change his life. In 2009 a drunk man grabbed his dog. Afterwards the man and some of his buddies started following him home. After Bernthal warned him off and they didn't listen, Bernthal punched him in the face and was taken in to the police station as a consequence. The injured man woke up, later and witnesses came forward to say that he had menaced Bernthal before the actor punched him.

As of 2022, he has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Le loup de Wall Street (2013), Ford contre Ferrari (2019) and King Richard: Au-delà du jeu (2021).

His favorite films are Le silence des agneaux (1991), D.C. Cab (1983), Un prophète (2009), Les affranchis (1990) and À coeur perdu (1993).

One of Jon's two brothers is Tom Bernthal, a three-time Emmy Award-winning former producer for NBC and the founder and CEO of Kelton Global, a business consulting firm.

Married to Erin Angle, niece of Olympic Gold Medalist (wrestling) and former WWE and TNA Champion Kurt Angle since 2010.

First cousin of Adam Schlesinger, of Fountains of Wayne. His father and Adam's mother are siblings.

Appears as Frank Castle in the TV series Daredevil (2015) plus starred with the original Daredevil (2003) movie star Ben Affleck in Le comptable (2016).

He is the first American born-actor to portray Frank Castle/The Punisher in a live-action adaption in 12 years, since Thomas Jane.

He worked with actress Jaime Ray Newman on two separate occasions. Once in the show Eastwick (2009-2010), playing the husband Raymond Gardener to Kat Gardener. Later in the show The Punisher Season 1 (2017), looking after Sarah Lieberman (wife to David Lieberman) as a promise to his ally David.