Jason O'Mara

Nellie Andreeva (Deadline Hollywood) announced on June 4, 2010, that Jason was in negotiations to star in Terra Nova for the Fox network. The midseason series is produced by Steven Spielberg. As part of the deal, O'Mara would have to move to Australia where the series is expected to begin filming in summer 2010.

Jason O'Mara was featured on the cover of TV Guide (September 8, 2008 issue). The article inside was titled "The New Hunks of Fall TV 2008."

Jason's producing credit for the Marlowe pilot was the first time he had been credited as a producer for a television series. However, Marlowe wasn't picked up as a series by ABC.

Jason starred in Resident Evil: Extinction as Albert Wesker. This film was the second project on which Jason had worked with Paul W.S. Anderson, the director for the pilot Drift.

The Hollywood Reporter (June 14, 2006) announced Jason has signed another talent holding deal with ABC and Touchstone Television. According to Touchstone Executive Vice President Julia Franz, "We've had a phenomenal working experience with Jason, We believe he's a major breakout star who has everything we look for in a leading man." Executive Vice President of Casting for ABC & Touchstone Keli Lee said, "Jason is an enormous talent that we've believed in for years."

Jason and his wife, Paige Turco, have an apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City and a house on the Connecticut shore.

Jason misses Dublin. In Ireland, he lived on Sandy Cove Road which was by the ocean.

In an interview in Irish Voice with Sean Driscoll, Jason stated he has been trying to crack Hollywood for the past 12 years. He also discussed In Justice, his theater work in Dublin, and his hopes that his struggle for recognition is finally over. He also mentioned he would like to make a movie next.

Jason's role in the midseason series In Justice was partly the result of his role in the unsold pilot for Countdown. ABC and Touchstone signed him to a talent-holding deal subsequent to the May 2003 upfronts.

In 2006, Jason signed on to film the drama pilot Drift for ABC's 2006 pilot season in the lead role of Ray Hakansovich, a New York City detective who who loses his young daughter, which leaves him with a form of post-traumatic stress insomnia, and hallucinations that his daughter is with him at crime scenes. The casting was in second position to Jason's series In Justice.

Jason was mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter (August 31, 2005) in the list of "Other names that have surfaced -- either in the media or inside the Hollywood beltway" as possible replacements for Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

In Jason's guest-starring role on The Closer, he portrayed a convicted murderer on death row who was, as it turned out, framed. In Jason's series, In Justice, he plays a detective who works to free the wrongly convicted.

Jason O'Mara and his wife, Paige Turco, have more than just acting in common. As a matter of fact, acting wasn't the first choice for either one of them. Paige wanted to be a classical ballerina, but she broke her foot while rehearsing, which ended her dancing career. Jason was an avid rugby player until he suffered an injury and was sidelined. While recovering, he tried out for a school play and the rest is history. Jason and Paige met while they were co-starring in The Agency.

At their wedding, Jason and Paige chose Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky" as their first song. The song contains the lines: "I was walking along minding my business/When love came and hit me in the eye/Flash! Bam! Alakazam!/Out of an orange-colored sky." In their first scene together on The Agency Paige forgot to duck whne Jason threw a theatrical punch and hit her in the eye.