Jonathan Whittaker is an actor who played the Vulcan director in the Star Trek: Discovery first season episode "Lethe".
A prolific character actor, Whittaker has appeared in over a hundred film and television productions since the late 1980s, usually playing supporting roles.
His television guest roles include episodes of Due South, Forever Knight, Xena: Warrior Princess, The X-Files (directed by Kim Manners), The Sentinel (with Leigh Taylor-Young), The Outer Limits (with Kirsten Dunst, narrated by Kevin Conway), Twice in a Lifetime (starring Paul Popowich), Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict (with Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Alan van Sprang), Monk, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (with Allan G. Royal), The Newsroom, Missing, The Dresden Files (with Conrad Coates, Daniel Kash, and Greg Bryk, directed by David Carson), Heartland, Flashpoint, Lost Girl, The Firm (starring Callum Keith Rennie, with Brian Markinson), Transporter: The Series, Suits, Saving Hope (starring Huse Madhavji, with Milton Barnes and Raven Dauda), Ransom (with Nazneen Contractor and Shawn Doyle), Murdoch Mysteries (with Stephanie Belding), Nurses (with Sheila McCarthy and Ellora Patnaik), and Tokyo Vice.
He also played recurring roles on several shows, including Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (with Robert Lansing and Larissa Laskin), Queer as Folk, Open Heart (starring Elena Juatco and Patrick Kwok-Choon), The Expanse (with Shawn Doyle, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Nick E. Tarabay, Brian George, Conrad Pla, Raven Dauda, Daniel Kash, Etan Muskat, Michael Ayres, Alden Adair, Ellora Patnaik, Samora Smallwood, Jeremy Crittenden, Shawn Ahmed, Atticus Mitchell, and Elias Toufexis), and Orphan Black: Echoes. In 2003-04, he co-starred in Alienated, which featured George Takei in a guest role, playing himself.
Whittaker made his feature film debut in Three Men and a Baby (1987, directed by Leonard Nimoy and featuring Paul Guilfoyle) He later appeared in films such as Resurrection (1999, with David Cronenberg, Rothaford Gray, Robert Joy, and Leland Orser), The Virgin Suicides (1999, starring Kirsten Dunst), Dracula 2000 (2000, with Christopher Plummer, Jeri Ryan, Tig Fong, and Robert Verlaque), Get Over It (2001, starring Kirsten Dunst, with Zoë Saldana, Ed Begley, Jr., and Michael Boisvert), Interstate 60 (2002, with Christopher Lloyd, Katherine Trowell, and Daniel Kash), Chicago (2002), Land of the Dead (2005, with Robert Joy, Tony Nappo, Alan van Sprang, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Alachiotis, and Pamela Mars), and The Kid Detective (2020, with Tzi Ma, Sophia Webster, and Steve Gagne).