FOOLS RUSH IN
JON TENNEY (Jeff) plays Alex Whitman's cynical best friend Jeff, who is also living in Las Vegas while on a temporary assignment for the same company that employs Alex to build and open nightclubs around the world.
Tenney has worked extensively in film, on television and in the theater. Currently, he stars with Faye Dunaway and Jennifer Beals in Showtime's Twilight of the Golds, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and will air on the cable network in March. His other film credits include Tombstone, Watch It, and Lassie, as well as cameos in Nixon, The Phantom, Beverly Hills Cop 3 and Guilty By Suspicion.
He recently completed the independent films Love Life, Hollywood Blvd., and Home Grown opposite Billy Bob Thornton. Tenney starred in the CBS sitcom Good Company, as well as the television dramas ABC's Equal Justice and NBC's Crime and Punishment.
On stage, Tenney received critical acclaim for his starring role in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, which won four Tony Awards including Best Revival, and went on to become the longest-running revival of a non-musical play in Broadway history. His other theater credits include performances both on and off-Broadway in productions of The Substance of Fire, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Sweet Sue, Beggars in the House of Plenty and A Shayna Maidel.
Raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Tenney was drawn to the stage since seeing his first childhood play. Prior to entering college, he studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre and acted in over 150 plays. While double-majoring at Vassar in drama and philosophy, he continued his training, performing with the Williamstown Theatre Festival during his summers off.
After graduation, Tenney studied at Julliard, but took a break to join the national touring company of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols. While playing the title role in an off-Broadway production of Tartuffe, he was cast in Up in Saratoga, which subsequently led to his being cast as the lead in Romeo and Juliet at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. A newspaper review of the production came to the attention of the producers of the TV hit, Murphy Brown, who cast Tenney as Miles' older brother, a guest-starring appearance that launched his career on television.
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