Michael Vartan
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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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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Birthday: November 27, 1968
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Male
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Monster-in-Law
Overview: Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Never Been Kissed
Overview: Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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The Pallbearer
Overview: Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give the eulogy at Bill's funeral, it sets him on a collision course with Ruth -- who is revealed to be Bill's oversexed mother -- and Julie DeMarco, the longtime crush Tom hasn't seen since they were teens.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-03
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Rogue
Overview: When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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One Hour Photo
Overview: Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!"
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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Fiorile
Overview: The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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It Had to Be You
Overview: Sparks fly when Anna Penn and Charlie Hudson meet. Unfortunately, they're both engaged to other people. In fact, they're staying at the same New York City hotel in order to work on wrapping up the last details of their nuptials. Over days and evenings of joint wedding planning, the two grow closer -- and start to wonder if they're getting married to the right people after all.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Jolene
Overview: A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Colombiana
Overview: After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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The Curve
Overview: Two roommates plan to kill a third to take advantage of college policy giving a 4.0 grade to a suicide's roommates.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-24
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Demoted
Overview: What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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The Myth of Fingerprints
Overview: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Summer Strolls
Overview: When a group of student actors travel to a workshop in Dordogne to put on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It as a summer project, they are as lively and high-spirited a group as one could ask for. While they are there, the young man who has the leading role begins casting cow eyes at the director's wife (Valerie Stroh), and soon she and the boy are having an affair. By the end of the summer, the wife is sufficiently charmed to wonder how she could have gotten into this situation where she deeply loves both men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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Sand
Overview: A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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Within
Overview: A widower, his daughter, and his new wife move into a peaceful neighborhood. At first it appears to be a perfect neighborhood but the family quickly realize that something is not right about their new home.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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The Next Best Thing
Overview: A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Touch Me
Overview: Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and must face the HIV tests alone, which shockingly come back positive. Building a support network, including a penitent Adam, Bridgette faces her own mortality.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Give Me Shelter
Overview: Give Me Shelter is a documentary to raise awareness for important animal issues around the world. This film uncovers the most prevalent issues in the animal world through the eyes of individuals dedicating their lives to them daily.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-24
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Black Leather Jacket
Overview: Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Man and Two Women
Overview: The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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Small Town Crime
Overview: Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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High School
Overview: A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-03
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Backwash
Overview: The tale of three slacker friends and the adventures that ensure after one of them inadvertently robs a bank armed only with a large salami. Many guest cameos including Jon Hamm, John Stamos, Sarah Silverman, John Cho, Allison Janney, Hank Azaria, Michael Vartan, Steven Weber, Jamie-Lynn Sigler. DTV version of ... the Made-for-Digital series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-15
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Ring of Fire
Overview: An oil rig triggers a volcanic eruption, kick starting a cataclysmic series along the Ring of Fire. If the eruptions aren't stopped, Earth faces an extinction-level event.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-11
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