Michael Vartan

Michael S. Vartan (lahir 27 November 1968) adalah aktor Perancis-Amerika, yang dikenal karena peran TVnya sebagai Michael Vaughn di drama aksi televisi ABC Alias, George Helen di Bates Motel, James Walker di Big Shots, Terence Hoffman di E! drama The Arrangement, dan Dr. Tom Wakefield di drama medis TNT Hawthorne. Peran filmnya yang paling terkenal adalah sebagai Sam Coulson di Never Been Kissed, Kevin Fields di Monster-in-Law, dan Kevin Lassiter di The Next Best Thing. Peran film lainnya termasuk The Pallbearer, One Hour Photo, Rogue, Colombiana, dan Small Town Crime. Ia memainkan peran Lancelot dalam produksi TNT dari The Mists of Avalon karya Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). Dia juga menjadi bintang tamu di Friends sebagai Dr. Tim Burke, putra karakter Tom Selleck. Vartan menjadi salah satu pembawa acara program olahraga live mingguan yang disebut Advanced Shouting bersama teman-temannya Dan Petriw dan Noel Fogelman. Episode pertama diunggah ke YouTube pada Juni 2020. Siarannya juga tersedia melalui Facebook. Ia lahir di Perancis dan tinggal di sana sampai usia 5 tahun ketika ia pindah ke Amerika Serikat bersama ibunya setelah orang tuanya bercerai. Dia pindah kembali ke Prancis untuk tinggal bersama ayahnya hingga masa sekolah menengahnya, dan tumbuh sebagai "anak petani" dalam "lingkungan sederhana" di Fleury, Manche, sebuah kota kecil di Normandia. Pada usia delapan belas tahun, Vartan pindah kembali bersama ibunya di Los Angeles, mengatakan kepadanya bahwa dia ingin menjadi seorang seniman, karena dia tidak ingin memenuhi wajib militer yang diwajibkan di Prancis. Dia sekarang menganggap dirinya orang Amerika dan menguasai dua bahasa, fasih berbahasa Prancis dan Inggris.

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.