Michael Vartan
Born: 1968-11-27 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michael S. Vartan (born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor, known for his TV roles as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama Alias, George Helen's on Bates Motel, James Walker on Big Shots, Terence Hoffman on the E! drama The Arrangement, and Dr. Tom Wakefield on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne. His best known film roles are as Sam Coulson in Never Been Kissed, Kevin Fields in Monster-in-Law, and Kevin Lassiter in The Next Best Thing. His other film roles include The Pallbearer, One Hour Photo, Rogue, Colombiana, and Small Town Crime. He played the role of Lancelot in TNT's production of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (2001). He also had a guest appearance on Friends as Dr. Tim Burke, Tom Selleck's character's son. Vartan co-hosts a weekly live sports program called Advanced Shouting with friends Dan Petriw and Noel Fogelman. The first episode was uploaded to YouTube in June 2020. The broadcast is also available via Facebook. He was born in France and lived there until the age of 5 when he moved to the United States with his mother after his parents divorced. He moved back to France to be with his father until his high school years, and grew up a "farm kid" in a "simple environment" in Fleury, Manche, a small town in Normandy. At age eighteen, Vartan moved back with his mother in Los Angeles, telling her that he wanted to be an artist, because he did not wish to fulfill the mandatory military service required in France. He now considers himself to be American and is bilingual, being fluent in French and English.
Filmography
2020
- The Drew Barrymore Show as Self
2018
- God Friended Me as Jeffrey
- Small Town Crime as Detective Crawford
2017
- The Arrangement as Terence Hoffman
2016
- Within as John Alexander
2014
- Give Me Shelter as Himself - Animal Advocate
2013
- Bates Motel as George Heldens
- Rectify as Forrest
2012
- Go On
- Ring of Fire as Dr Matthew Cooper
2011
- Colombiana as Danny Delanay
- Demoted as Rodney
2010
- Jolene as Brad
- High School as Calculus Teacher (uncredited)
2009
- Hawthorne as Tom Wakefield
2005
- Monster-in-Law as Dr. Kevin Fields
- Kitchen Confidential as Michel Valentine
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002
- One Hour Photo as Will Yorkin
2001
- Alias as Michael Vaughn
- The Mists of Avalon as Lancelot
- Anatomy of a Scene as Self
2000
- The Next Best Thing as Kevin Lasater
- It Had to Be You as Charlie Hudson
- Sand as Ty
1999
- Never Been Kissed as Sam Coulson
1998
- The Curve as Chris
1997
- The View as Self
- Ally McBeal as Jonathan Bassett
- Touch Me as Adam
- The Myth of Fingerprints as Jake
1996
- The Pallbearer as Scott
1995
1994
- Friends as Tim Burke
1993
- Fallen Angels as Harry Stone
- Fiorile as Jean / Massimo
1992
- Summer Strolls as Thomas
1991
- Spender as Paul Ducheyne
- A Man and Two Women as Fred
1989
- Black Leather Jacket as Boy on Bike