Michael Vartan

Michael S. Vartan(born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor, known for his TV roles asMichael Vaughnon theABCtelevision action dramaAlias, George Helen's on Bates Motel, James Walker on Big Shots, Terence Hoffman on the E! drama The Arrangement, and Dr. Tom Wakefield on theTNTmedical 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 includeThe Pallbearer,One Hour Photo,Rogue,Colombiana, andSmall Town Crime. He played the role of Lancelot inTNT's production ofMarion Zimmer Bradley'sThe Mists of Avalon(2001).He also had a guest appearance onFriendsas Dr. Tim Burke,Tom Selleck's character's son.Vartan co-hosts a weekly live sports program calledAdvanced Shoutingwith 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"inFleury, Manche, a small town inNormandy.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 themandatory military servicerequired in France. He now considers himself to be American andisbilingual, being fluent in French and English.