Personal Life
Thomas was born Jonathan Taylor Weiss in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of Claudine (née Gonsalves), a personal manager and social worker, and Stephen Weiss, an industrial sales manager; the two divorced in 1989. His uncle is playwright/actor Jeff Weiss. Thomas is of Portuguese and Pennsylvania Dutch (German) ancestry. Jonathan has an older brother, Joel Thomas Weiss, who is an assistant basketball coach at University of Texas - Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. His stage name is taken from his first name (Jonathan), his middle name (Taylor), and his brother's middle name (Thomas).
In 2000, he graduated with honors from Chaminade College Preparatory School in West Hills, California. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and history and spent his third year abroad at St. Andrews University in Scotland. In 2010, he graduated from Columbia University, under his legal name, Jonathan Weiss.
He has been a vegetarian for much of his life.
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