Jim Hanna
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Nominated for 2012 LA Weekly award: Best Lead Male Performance for Iago in "Othello."Booked Hallmark commercial with director Jason Reitman, Jan. 2012
Booked National commercial for La Quinta Hotels, Jan. 2012
Booked national commercial for Burger King, December 2011
Booked national commercial for USPS, November 2011
"The marvelous Jim Hanna...imbues the character (Iago) with an enervating sense of sociopathic world-weariness that reads both as comic exasperation in his scenes with Roderigo and the whiff of a humanizing conscience in his soliloquies." Othello review -- LA WEEKLY, July 2011
Booked Guest starring role on NCIS: Los Angeles, Feb., 2011
Booked role of Dennis on "Hot in Cleveland," January 2011.
Booked national Intuit commercial, October 2010
Booked spot for Abbott's diabetes test strips, August 2010
Booked role of Chad in multi-spot campaign for Esurance, April, 2010
Booked spot for Mass Mutual, March 2010
Booked spot for Lunchables, March, 2010
Won Best Lead Performance award from LADCC, March, 2010
Nominated for LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Lead Performance (Equus). Award ceremony, March, 2010
Nominated for LA Weekly Award, Best Leading Male Performance (Equus). Award ceremony, March 2010
Now recurring as Bill on MTV sitcom "Hard Times," premiering in 2010
Booked the role of Ken on "Lie To Me" on FOX, Oct., 2009
Worked four days in Detroit on independent feature "Crave," Oct., 2009
Booked the role of Russ on "Cougar Town" on ABC, Sept. 2009
Reviews for "Equus" at The Production Company, Summer-Fall, 2009:
"Hanna and Stafford (are) beyond praise. Hanna conveys a passionate eloquence that perfectly underscores the tragic irony of Dysart's situation." L.A. Times - CRITIC'S CHOICE
“Hanna does a masterful job…a gripping and intellectually stimulating experience.” BACKSTAGE - CRITIC'S PICK
“(R)iveting performance by Hanna. Hanna’s Dysart suffers an anguish at least as deep as the boy’s, and this carries the play from clever melodrama into the realm of tragedy.” LA WEEKLY - GO!
“As Dysart, Jim Hanna Disappears into a man’s skin about as completely as you’ll ever see an actor do without prosthetic makeup…This is rich, nuanced work which I’d venture to guess stands up very well indeed against Anthony Hopkins’ performance in the Broadway original.” Stage Scene LA
