Jon Matthews is an actor, best known for Independence Day, And the Band Played On, Heathers, and Where the Buffalo Roam. Other film credits include Animal Behavior, Listen to Me, A Secret Space, and Nurse.

Television credits include Jacky Custis in the CBS miniseries George Washington.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Eddie in Runaways (Plymouth Theatre), Billy in Shimada (Broadhurst Theatre), and Trent in Six Degrees of Separation (Vivian Beaumont Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Huckleberry Finn in Romance Language (Playwrights Horizons); and regionally, as Valentine Coverly in Arcadia (ACT), Yasha in The Cherry Orchard (South Coast Repertory), and Louis Ironson in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Mark Taper Forum). He has won three Drama-Logue Awards and a SDDCC Award.