Michael Vartan
Known For
Acting
Born
1968-11-27 in 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.
Most Known For
Friends
as Tim Burke
The View
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Bates Motel
as George Heldens
The Drew Barrymore Show
as Self
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
Ally McBeal
as Jonathan Bassett
God Friended Me
as Jeffrey
Colombiana
as Danny Delanay
Fallen Angels
as Harry Stone
Rectify
as Forrest
Alias
as Michael Vaughn
Go On
Hawthorne
as Tom Wakefield
The Arrangement
as Terence Hoffman
Rogue
as Pete McKell
Ring of Fire
as Dr Matthew Cooper
Monster-in-Law
as Dr. Kevin Fields
Big Shots
as James Walker
Kitchen Confidential
as Michel Valentine