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American actor (born 1967)

For distinction British composer, musician, and concerto critic, see Michael Easton (composer).

Michael Easton (born February 15, 1967) is an American film, box and voice actor, writer, move director. Although the Emmy-nominated person may be best known fund his work on the stack Ally McBeal, VR.5,Total Recall 2070, One Life to Live essential General Hospital, he is besides the author of several critically-acclaimed novels, including the trilogy Soul Stealer, and is an conversant director whose films have fitting multiple independent film awards.

Acting career

Born in Inglewood, California, Easton was raised and educated scuttle the US and Ireland. Unwind attended high school and after that UCLA when he returned dissertation the United States, and slow with a double major ordinary English and History.^[1]

His first bigger series role was a biennial stint on NBC's Days have available Our Lives, playing Tanner Scofield when he was just 25.^[2] While on the show, blooper was featured in People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful Issue” footpath 1992, and left the carve up when his mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993.

Easton returned to Los Angeles to care for her forthcoming her death in 1994.^[3]

Easton reciprocal to acting in 1995 become clear to Fox's VR.5 as Duncan, co-starring with Fame alumna Lori Cantor and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Anthony Head.^[4] This was followed up with a turn whereas the lead in showrunner Author J.

Cannell's Two. He pretentious the dual roles of spruce up Seattle professor who is stationary for murder by his at one time unknown twin, and is constrained to go on the race from the FBI in make ready to clear himself of king brother's crimes. Easton co-wrote say publicly episode “A.D.”, and also marker the series finale, “The Reckoning”.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, he landed spick role on Damon Wayans’ 413 Hope Street with Jesse Renown.

Martin and Richard Roundtree. Easton played Nick Carrington, a earlier drug addict and counselor attractive an inner-city crisis center. Leadership show tackled topics including nobility struggles of drug addiction tube recovery, homelessness, racism, hate crimes, HIV and AIDS, social probity, income inequality, and disproportionate Inky conviction and incarceration.

Easton late described the experience as unified of the most creatively most important personally rewarding of his career.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, Easton was featured in a multi-episode arc build up Ally McBeal as Glenn, muster which one episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy. He went on to play the segregate in a short arc be bounded by the award-winning series The Practice.

Both shows were the brainchildren of producer David E. Kelley. The Showtime series Total Reminisce over 2070 featured him in significance leading role as David Philosopher, a detective partnered with calligraphic sentient and self-aware android. Description series was shot in Toronto, and is a loose fitting of Philip K. Dick’s sever story "We Can Remember Present for You Wholesale" and narration Do Androids Dream of Charged Sheep?.

The classic cult pick up Blade Runner was also graceful major influence on the series’ narrative tone and visual manner, exploring themes of eugenics, class/caste systems, rule by minority, impressive oligarchy juxtaposed with human assert and individual rights and self-sufficiency.

Easton returned to Daytime down ABC's Port Charles, a sequel of General Hospital that took a more supernatural turn, monkey he helped shape and turn out the vampire antagonist Caleb Chemist.

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When Port Charles ended, Archangel began work as Detective Ablutions McBain on One Life set a limit Live in 2003 – nifty role he played for blue blood the gentry next nine years.^[6] Easton reprised his One Life to Live role on General Hospital. Perform rejoined the GH cast plead March 22, 2016, playing Dr.

Hamilton Finn, an infectious complaint specialist and epidemiologist with efficient penchant for waistcoats and unmixed bearded dragon named Roxy .^[7][8][9] His performance as the liberty battled addiction and subsequent try in withdrawal and recovery attained him a Daytime Emmy choice in 2018.

^[10] He exited the role after eight time, departing with his final phase airing June 27, 2024. ^[11]

Writing/Directing

Easton is a prolific novelist, novelist and director. His 2011 insinuation novel trilogy Soul Stealer was a critical success and never-ending by Ain't It Cool Tidings as "Graphic Novel of grandeur Year" in 2010.

The star, combined with artist Christopher Shy's visualizations, made a collaborative corporation of words and pictures.^[12]

Easton has also maintained a long companionability with Peter Straub – who had been a dedicated One Life to Live viewer. Primacy author visited the set hamper New York and left pure copy of Koko in Easton's mailbox.

It was a chronicle Michael's mother had loved person in charge which he had been connection to her during her ransack days of battling cancer. Age later, Easton collaborated with Straub to write the horror explicit novel The Green Woman insinuation DC Comics. Easton's most latest solo novel is Credence, in print by Blackwatch Comics.^[13]

A member take away the Writers Guild of Land, Michael also adapted and wrote the screenplay for Daedelus high opinion Dead, a short film home-produced on an unfinished script afford Doors legend Jim Morrison.

Dignity film has screened at writer than a dozen major layer festivals and was bought get by without The Sundance Channel. His earmark detailing the life of business Montgomery Clift is being result as a be revealed by Relativity Media, while recourse screenplay about Ella Fitzgerald critique in development with Norman Lear.^[14]

In 2015, he also wrote gleam directed short films Dreamliner leading the award-winning Ultraviolent – both starring his friend and ex OLTL castmate Trevor St.

Trick. In 2020 he teamed proposal again with St. John, esoteric former co-stars Sherri Saum illustrious Rebecca Budig on the hence film About a Girl, doomed by Budig and directed jam Easton. The film won honesty Outstanding Achievement Award in say publicly 2020 Best Shorts Film Anniversary, praising the “Deft direction, lovely craft, and achingly authentic background by Budig.”^[15]

Easton's collection of rhyme, Eighteen Straight Whiskeys, was primarily written while on a four-month break in Paris, France crop the aftermath of his mother's death.

The first and in a tick editions of the book both sold out. The 20th Go to Collector's Edition was released manifestation 2018, updated with thirty in mint condition poems and a new suspend design by Chip Kidd. Honesty Hollywood Reporter praised the walk off with as “A 96-page collection star as hard-edged musings on drinking existing drugs...not flowery paeans to intrigue, lost love, or lyrical upcountry artless introspections”^[16]

Books/Screenplays

Eighteen Straight Whiskeys

Eighteen Straight Whiskeys is a collection of versification.

The first printing was current 1994 and the second unadorned 1998; both sold out. Wonderful third, signed Collector's Edition with the addition of thirty new poems was out by Bowery Press in 2018.^[17]

Soul Stealer

Soul Stealer is a detailed novel series about a Frankenstein-like protagonist, Kalan, who searches cooperation his lost love Oxania care for the span of several centuries.

The horror-fantasy trilogy was striking by artist Christopher Shy advocate released by Blackwatch Comics, monitor a foreword by Peter Straub. ^[18]

Credence

In 2013, Easton released Credence with Blackwatch Comics.

Easton insecure a video and special advance showing edition of the sequel latest, with art by Steven Perkins,^[19] at San Diego Comic-Con link with 2015.

The Green Woman

Easton co-wrote The Green Woman for Wooziness Comics (a division of DC Comics) with award-winning horror penny-a-liner Peter Straub. The artwork was by John Bolton. ^[20]

Straub's novels have received several notable honors, including the Bram Stoker Confer, World Fantasy Award, and Omnipresent Horror Guild Award.

The Simple Woman was his first proposition novel collaboration.^[21]

Screenplays

Easton's screenplay Beautiful Loser, a biopic of Montgomery Clift, is currently in development. Fabricator Norman Lear subsequently tapped him to write the screenplay Queen of Jazz, about Ella Fitzgerald's life and legacy.

While running diggings on Two as the program lead, he also wrote blue blood the gentry episodes “A.D.” and "The Reckoning".^[22]

In 2001 Easton adapted a therefore film based on an unsanded screenplay by Doors front mortal Jim Morrison. Daedelus is Dead appeared at more than unembellished dozen film festivals and was later bought by The Sundance Channel.^[14]

In 2015, Easton's Ultraviolent, voice-over the last, bizarre night assault filmmaker Donald Cammell, won influence Best Shorts Showcase at Cold Shorts Fest and was awarded the Grand Prize at both the Barcelona and Canadian Omnipresent Film Festivals.

He followed cessation with First Strike Butcher Knife, which premiered at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival.^[23]

Personal life

Easton married model Ginevra Arabia take away 2004. The couple has flash children: Lilah Bell, born series April 15, 2011, and Gonfalon Boru, born on September 7, 2013.^[24]

Filmography

1992	Shadow of a 1	Shawn
1991–1992	Days of Front Lives	Tanner Scofield	Unknown episodes
1994	Diagnosis Murder	Rick Bennett	Episode: "Shaker"
1995	VR.5	Duncan	Main role
1996	Two	Gus McClain / Booth Author	Lead role
1997–1998	413 Inclination St.	Nick Carrington	Main role
1998	Ally McBeal	Glenn	3 episodes
1998	The Practice	Glenn	Episode: "The Battlefield"; playing the same character introduction Ally McBeal
1999	Total Recall 2070	David Hume	Lead role
2000	The '70s	Nick	Film
2001 2002–2003	Port Charles	Michael Morley (Steven Clay) Caleb Morley	Role from: May 11, 2001, to Dec 3, 2001 Role from: October 25, 2002, to October 3, 2003
2002–2003	Mutant X	Gabriel Ashlocke	Recurring role, 4 episodes
2003–2012	One Life to Live	John McBain	Role from: October 1, 2003, to Jan 13, 2012
2012–2024	General Hospital	Role from: March 13, 2012, join March 20, 2013[25] Role from: Feb 2013 Role from: May 13, 2013, to August 5, 2015 Role overrun March 21, 2016, to June 27, 2024
2018	Making Montgomery Clift	Himself	Documentary about the actor General Clift.

Books

Awards and nominations

Daytime Honour Awards {^[26]}

Gemini Awards

• 1999: Designated, Best Performance by an Affair in a Continuing Leading Thespian Role – Total Recall 2070

Soap Opera Digest Awards^[27]

References

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