Jonathan Kos-Read
Biography
Jonathan Kos-Read (born 1973), also known as Cao Cao (Chinese: 曹操; pinyin: Cáo Cāo), is an American film and television actor based in the People's Republic of China. While well known in China, his work is little-known in the United States. Kos-Read uses the stage name Cao Cao, which is also the name of the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a historical figure well-known to most Chinese people.
Known For

For the Sake of the Republic

Romantic Life

My Chief and My Regiment

My Uncle Zhou Enlai

Operation Black-Ops

Mojin: The Lost Legend

Ip Man 3

青春的童话
All Movies (26)
- Operation Black-Ops2026
- You are the Best2025 · as Holmes
- The Abyss Rescue2023
- 怒海浩劫2023
- Snipers2022 · as John
- A Day Deal2020 · as Flok
- Young Ip Man: Crisis Time2020 · as Principal Stewart
- Electromagnetic King Pili Family2020 · as Bai Jiage
- Wait Here2018 · as Lorenzo
- Eternal Wave2017 · as Pierre
- Mr. Made2017 · as Made
- The Game Changer2017 · as Owen
- Dad's Cabin2016 · as Davy
- Xuan Zang2016 · as Cunningham
- The Bodyguard2016 · as Ding's Son-in-law
- Ip Man 32015 · as Edward
- Mojin: The Lost Legend2015 · as Mark
- The Vanished Murderer2015 · as Foreign official
- Ever Since We Love2015 · as Dick
- The Twins' Code2013 · as Daniel
- Cold Steel2011 · as John
- Super Player2010 · as Gai Te
- My Fair Gentleman2009
- Empire of Silver2009 · as Pastor Landdeck
- Fit Lover2008
- Confessions of a Male Prostitute1992 · as Jamie, the hustler
All TV Shows (12)
- From Love to Happiness2022 · as Cao Cao [Xiao Wei's friend]
- My Uncle Zhou Enlai2016 · as 李克
- Mother's Romance2016 · as 瑞尼
- Guardians of Ancient Magic2015
- Shangri-la2011
- My Chief and My Regiment2009 · as Alger Collins
- A Hundred Years of Life2008 · as 伊万
- Romantic Life2004 · as 欧文
- For the Sake of the Republic2003 · as 莫里逊 George Ernest Morrison
- 青春不解风情2002
- 青春的童话2002
- 都市丽人行2001