Jon Mack was born in Rochester, Michigan, where she spent her childhood on a 180-acre farm owned by her grandparents. As the only child of a drama teacher and theater director, she began acting on stage at the age of five, showcasing her early talent.
Growing up, Jon's ancestry was deeply rooted in her Polish and Lithuanian heritage. Upon graduating high school, she attended the prestigious New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied theater under both the Lee Strasberg Institute and Experimental Theater programs.
After completing her studies, Jon relocated to Los Angeles to pursue postgraduate studies in graphic design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During this time, she began working in feature films, eventually gaining national recognition for her portrayal of Ava Gardner in the Emmy Award-winning biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999),starring Halle Berry.
Jon's subsequent film credits include a junkie named Jane in Saw VI (2009),a soccer mom hoping to score with Gerard Butler in Playing for Keeps (2012),alongside Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. She also appeared in Straight A's (2013) with Anna Paquin, Ryan Phillippe, and Luke Wilson, as well as Millennium Entertainment's Spiders (2013).
In 2015, Jon played Reggie, a gun slinger in Blunt Force Trauma (2015),alongside Mickey Rourke, Ryan Kwanten, and Freida Pinto. She also appeared as an entertainment reporter in SyFy's creature comedy Lavalantula (2015). The following year, she played a telepathic government test subject in Mind Blown (2016) and a time-traveling sorceress in Doomsday Device (2017).
Jon's more recent projects include The Amityville Murders (2018),Acceleration (2019) with Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, and Sean Patrick Flanery, and Kill Chain (2019) alongside Nicolas Cage. Her upcoming projects include Taken from Rio Bravo (2023),a western drama, Drug Hunter, a drama about a Navy Seal and his elite team taking on a drug cartel, and the Sci-Fi action adventure Andromeda Wars.
Aside from acting, Jon is an accomplished musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. Her brainchild, Auradrone, has released three albums independently, with a soon-to-be-released EP. Auradrone has performed in festivals around the world, including Serbia's Exitfest.
Jon's passion for animal welfare and preserving endangered wildlife led her to create her foundation, Defending the Endangered, in 2015. The organization aims to raise awareness and aid against poaching and trophy hunting. In 2016, she co-directed, starred in, and produced Auradrone's music video, Auradrone: Weapon of Choice (2016),which illustrates the devastation these practices cause wildlife and the planet.
Defending the Endangered held its first celebrity charity event in 2017, raising funds to support the Rhino Rescue Project and Black Mambas APU in South Africa. In 2023, Jon directed her first short film, Love Song for A Mermaid, in partnership with Defending the Endangered, to raise awareness about the plight of manatees.
