Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa was born on August 1, 1979, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Coni Momoa (a photographer) and Joseph Momoa (a painter) are his parents. His father is Native Hawaiian and Samoan descent and his mother, who is from Iowa has German, Irish, and Native American ancestry. Jason was raised in Norwalk, Iowa, by his mother. After high school, Jason moved to Hawaii and was able to land a lead role, beating hundreds of hopefuls for the TV series Baywatch (1989) (known as "Baywatch Hawaii" in its 10th season). The next couple of years traveling the globe after the show had ended. In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles, where he continued to pursue a career in acting. In 2004, after the brief-lived TV series North Shore (2004), he was cast as the popular character "Ronon Dex" in the TV series Stargate: Atlantis (2004) that gained a cult fan base. He played the Dothraki King in Game of Thrones (2011), an Emmy-nominated HBO series.
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