Michael Vartan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 27, 1968 (age 57)
- Birthplace
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Small Town Crime
Movie · as Detective Crawford
God Friended Me
TV · as Jeffrey · 1 ep
The Arrangement
TV · as Terence Hoffman · 20 eps
Within
Movie · as John Alexander
Nina
Movie · as Radio Interviewer
Give Me Shelter
Movie · as Self - Animal Advocate
Bates Motel
TV · as George Heldens · 6 eps
Rectify
TV · as Forrest · 1 ep
Ring of Fire
TV · as Dr Matthew Cooper · 2 eps
Go On
TV · as Michael Vartan · 1 ep
Colombiana
Movie · as Danny Delanay
Demoted
Movie · as Rodney
Jolene
Movie · as Brad
High School
Movie · as Calculus Teacher (uncredited)
Hawthorne
TV · as Tom Wakefield · 30 eps
Rogue
Movie · as Pete McKell
Big Shots
TV · as James Walker · 11 eps
Monster-in-Law
Movie · as Dr. Kevin Fields
Kitchen Confidential
TV · as Michel Valentine · 1 ep
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Movie · as Self /Self - Michael Vaughn
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
One Hour Photo
Movie · as Will Yorkin
Alias
TV · as Michael Vaughn · 95 eps
The Mists of Avalon
TV · as Lancelot · 2 eps
Anatomy of a Scene
TV · as Self · 1 ep
It Had to Be You
Movie · as Charlie Hudson
Sand
Movie · as Ty
The Next Best Thing
Movie · as Kevin Lasater
Never Been Kissed
Movie · as Sam Coulson
The Curve
Movie · as Chris
The Myth of Fingerprints
Movie · as Jake
Touch Me
Movie · as Adam
Ally McBeal
TV · as Jonathan Bassett · 2 eps
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Pallbearer
Movie · as Scott
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Movie · as Tommy
Friends
TV · as Tim Burke · 1 ep
Fiorile
Movie · as Jean / Massimo
Fallen Angels
TV · as Harry Stone · 1 ep
Summer Strolls
Movie · as Thomas
A Man and Two Women
Movie · as Fred
Spender
TV · as Paul Ducheyne · 1 ep
Black Leather Jacket
Movie · as Boy on Bike