Jonathan Brough is a New Zealand-born film director based in Australia. He is best known for the comedy TV series Rosehaven, Aftertaste and The Family Law.

Brough grew up in Hāwera, New Zealand, the son of John Brough, a theatre and television actor.

Brough's graduation project was The Model, a short film (11 minutes) based on a short story by Bernard Malamud, inspired by the work of painter Edward Hopper, and starring Brough's father and Susannah Devereux (later a horror actress in the US). The film was an official selection in the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for a special one-off programme of short films, and was screened at the Silver Images Film Festival in Chicago, U.S. The film was later included in a video anthology called Dark Stories 2: Tales from Beneath (2002).

In following years he directed two short films, The Conversation (1995) and Permanent Wave (1996).

In 2004 he directed four episodes of the television drama series The Insider's Guide to Happiness, and was responsible for directing several documentaries about the making of the film Whale Rider, for the DVD extras, and a separate release, Riding the Wave: The Whale Rider Story.

Also in 2004 he made No Ordinary Sun, a short sci fi film set in Antarctica, which he described as "the closest yet as a statement of what I want to achieve as a filmmaker". It screened at the Edinburgh and Slamdance Film Festivals.

Brough co-created the mockumentary series The Pretender in 2005, and directed six episodes in all, including the opening episodes of both seasons.

He directed many episodes of the American TV series of Power Rangers 2006 to 2007 and from 2008 to 2015.