Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 27, 1968
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Credits
44 titles
Michael Vartan
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Drew Barrymore Show
Self
God Friended Me
Jeffrey
Small Town Crime
Detective Crawford
The Arrangement
Terence Hoffman
Within
John Alexander
Give Me Shelter
Himself - Animal Advocate
Rectify
Forrest
Bates Motel
George Heldens
Ring of Fire
Dr Matthew Cooper
Go On
Colombiana
Danny Delanay
Demoted
Rodney
Jolene
Brad
High School
Calculus Teacher (uncredited)
Hawthorne
Tom Wakefield
Rogue
Pete McKell
Big Shots
James Walker
Kitchen Confidential
Michel Valentine
Monster-in-Law
Dr. Kevin Fields
The Tony Danza Show
Self
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Self /Self - Michael Vaughn
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
One Hour Photo
Will Yorkin
Alias
Michael Vaughn
The Mists of Avalon
Lancelot
Anatomy of a Scene
Self
Sand
Ty
The Next Best Thing
Kevin Lasater
It Had to Be You
Charlie Hudson
Never Been Kissed
Sam Coulson
The Curve
Chris
The Myth of Fingerprints
Jake
Ally McBeal
Jonathan Bassett
Touch Me
Adam
The View
Self
The Pallbearer
Scott
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Tommy
Friends
Tim Burke
Fallen Angels
Harry Stone
Fiorile
Jean / Massimo
Summer Strolls
Thomas
A Man and Two Women
Fred
Spender
Paul Ducheyne
Black Leather Jacket
Boy on Bike