Daniel Bonjour

Bonjour was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[2] His father is South African commercial editor and director who worked under the name Trevor Hill and his mother is Swiss. He moved with his family to Switzerland at the age of five and returned to South Africa at eight. At the age of 12, his family relocated to Seattle, Washington. He attended Mercer Island High School and graduated from Boston College.

Daniel starred in his first movie when he was 12, but did not continue his career until 2007, starring predominantly in indie films and landing his first role as series regular in the science-fiction series RCVR, for which he received the Best Actor Award from the International Academy of Web Television. In 2016, Daniel was cast as Daniel Lawrence in the CW series Frequency opposite Peyton List and Mekhi Phifer.^[3]

Daniel was the first winner of the International Academy of Web Television for Male Actor in a Drama in 2013.^[4]

Frequency^[5] was the first project in which he performed in his native South African accent.^[6]

Daniel is also a writer and the grand prize winner of the Final Draft Screenwriting competition, having won the feature-film category in 2015.^[7]

He has worked on several award-winning video games, including the Hitman series, Final Fantasy, and Life is Strange.^[8]

Daniel is married to actress Jelly Howie.^[9][10] They have two children, a son named Brixton Riot Bonjour and a daughter named Charli Rainbow Bonjour.^[11][12] Daniel has one brother named Pascal who lives in Seattle, as do both his parents. He was forced to leave his honeymoon with Jelly Howie in Thailand to fly to Atlanta to film The Walking Dead.^[13]

People included Daniel as one of Hollywood's hottest up-and-comers in their Ones to Watch category.^[14]