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Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy television series Ugly Betty. He can be heard as Bobby Kerns in As the Curtain Rises, an original podcast soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.[1]

Michael Urie
Urie at the 2012 PaleyFest
Born	Michael Lorenzo Urie (1980-08-08) August 8, 1980 (age 42) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Education	Collin College Juilliard School (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present

Early life and education

Urie was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Plano. He is of Scottish and Italian descent.[2][3] He graduated from Plano Senior High School in 1998.[4]

Urie then studied at Collin County Community College before being accepted at the Juilliard School in New York City.[4] While there, he was a member of the Drama Division's Group 32 from 1999 to 2003.[5] Urie graduated from Juilliard in 2003.[4]

Career

Urie, while still a student at Juilliard, performed in the world premiere of Love and Happiness (2001) at the Consolati Performing Arts Center, starring as a sixteen-year-old trying to get rid of his mother's boyfriend.[6]

He received the 2002 John Houseman Prize for Excellence in Classical Theatre from the Juilliard School. His classical credits include Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, and commedia dell'arte.[7]

Urie played the central character in the stage play WTC View as well as in the film adaptation.

He is on the board of Plum Productions and serves as its casting director. With the same company he has produced and appeared in Prachtoberfest and lowbrow (and a little bit tacky). As a freelance producer, he has worked on Like The Mountains and The Fantasticks (Four Players Theatre). He also directed the latter production.

In 2006, Urie began appearing in the ABC dramedy Ugly Betty as Marc St. James, the assistant of Wilhelmina Slater, played by Vanessa Williams. The show began with the concept that Wilhelmina would have a different assistant in each episode; thus Urie was originally billed as a guest star in the credits.[8] However, Williams loved their chemistry, and Urie was signed on as a full-time regular midway through the first season. He and the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2007 and 2008.[9] The role earned Urie a Ewwy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009. He remained with Ugly Betty until the show's cancellation in 2010.

During the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, Urie hosted TLC's reality-based series Miss America: Reality Check. The program followed the contestants participating in the 2008 Miss America Pageant.[10]

Urie has returned often to his theater roots, including directing a one-night celebrity-performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff. The musical was reimagined by Howard's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles's Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series.^{[citation needed]} He has also been on Live with Regis and Kelly and has also starred in the 2008 Disney blockbuster production Beverly Hills Chihuahua as the voice of Sebastian.

Urie originated the role of Rudi Gernreich in the 2009 off-Broadway play The Temperamentals, about the foundation of the early LGBT rights organization the Mattachine Society. Urie received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.[11]

In January 2012, Urie made his Broadway debut, joining the cast of the second revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in the role of Bud Frump.[12]

Urie has also started his own website for videoblogging and live chats.[13] In 2012, Urie also starred as the mysterious limo driver James in the film adaptation of Wendy Mass's children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, written and directed by Tamar Halpern.

Urie was one of the leads in CBS's short-lived series Partners. The multi-camera comedy, from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, centered on lifelong friends and business partners – one straight and one gay.[14] The series premiered on September 24, 2012, but was cancelled after only six episodes had aired.^{[citation needed]}

His performance in 2013's one-man show Buyer & Cellar won him a Clarence Derwent Award[15] as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[16]

In April 2015, Urie became the host of Cocktails & Classics on Logo TV, in which he and panels of celebrity friends watch and comment on classic movies while imbibing cocktails named or made for the films. Films profiled on the series have included All About Eve, Steel Magnolias, Valley of the Dolls, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Mommie Dearest.[17]

In November 2018, Urie starred as Arnold Beckoff in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song revival on Broadway.[18][19]

He had a recurring role as Redmond, the gossipy book agent, in the popular TVLand drama-comedy series Younger, produced by Darren Star.[20]

In 2018, Urie played Prince Hamlet in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Hamlet in Washington, DC.[21] He reprised the role in mid-2019 for the company's "Free for All" production run.[22]

On September 13, 2019, it was announced that Urie would once again team up with his Ugly Betty co-star Becki Newton on a sitcom project for CBS and Warner Bros. Television called Fun, for which both would co-star and co-executive produce with creator Michael Patrick King and fellow Ugly Betty showrunners Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally.[23] CBS passed on the pilot of the series on May 4, 2020.[24]

In 2021, Urie starred in the Netflix Christmas romantic comedy Single All the Way.[25]

Personal life

In 2009, Urie referred to himself as "a member of the LGBT community" on his website.[26] In a 2010 interview with The Advocate, he said that he was in a relationship with a man and identifies as "queer". He said it never felt wrong when he was with women previously.[27]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	WTC View	Eric
2008	Tangled Web	Husband
2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Sebastian
2011	The Decoy Bride	Steve Korbitz
2011	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	James
2012	Petunia	George McDougal
2013	He's Way More Famous Than You	Himself
2014	Such Good People	Richard Nearly
2019	Lavender	Arthur	Short film
2021	Swan Song	Dustin
2021	Single All the Way	Peter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Undressed	Justin	Episode: "Tangled Beards"
2004	Kat Plus One	Roger	Television film
2006–2010	Ugly Betty	Marc St. James	Main role Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor - Comedy
2008–2009	Mode After Hours	Marc St. James	Main role
2010	Under the Pink Carpet	Himself	Episode: "Michael Musto, Gay Marriage and Rugby"
2010	Brain Trust	Prof. Franklin Gordon	Television film
2010	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Himself
2012	Partners	Louis McManus	Main role
2013	Hot in Cleveland	Jeffery	Episode: "Cleveland Indians"
2014	Modern Family	Gavin Sinclair	Episodes: "Queer Eyes, Full Hearts", "Integrity"
2014–2016	The Good Wife	Stephen Dinovera	4 episodes
2015	RuPaul's Drag Race	Himself	Guest judge
2015	Workaholics	Joey	Episode: "Gayborhood"
2016	Almost Royal	Himself	Episode: "Romance"
2016–2021	Younger	Redmond	Recurring role
2018	After Forever	Daniel	Episodes: "Commitment" and "Accidents"
2019	The Good Fight	Stephen Dinovera	Episodes: "The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance" and "The One Where Kurt Saves Diane"
2019–2020	Almost Family	Nate	Recurring role
2020	Ms. Guidance	Brant Finklestein	Episode: "The Taming of the Jenny"
2021	The Bite	Josh	Recurring role
TBA	Shrinking	Brian	Main role; upcoming series

Director and executive producer

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	House of Kai Milla	Executive producer	Television film
2012	He's Way More Famous Than You	Director
2012	Thank You for Judging	Co-director; executive producer	Documentary

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
2009	The Temperamentals	Rudi Gernreich	New World Stages[28]
2010	Angels in America	Prior Walter	Signature Theatre Company
2011	The Cherry Orchard	Yepikhodov	Classic Stage Company
2012	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Bud Frump	Al Hirschfeld Theatre	Replacement
2013	Buyer & Cellar	Alex More	Barrow Street Theatre
2014	Buyer & Cellar	Alex More	National Tour
2015	Buyer & Cellar	Alex More	Menier Chocolate Factory	March–May 2015
2015	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Hysterium	Two River Theater
2015	Shows for Days	Car	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
2016	Homos, Or Everyone in America	The Writer	Labryinth Theatre Company	Winner of the Obie Award for Performance
2017	The Government Inspector	Ivan Alexandreyevich Hlestakov	The Duke on 42nd Street
2017	Torch Song	Arnold Beckoff	Second Stage
2018	Hamlet	Hamlet	Shakespeare Theatre Company
2018	Torch Song	Arnold Beckoff	Hayes Theater
2019	High Button Shoes	Harrison Floy	New York City Center
2019	A Bright Room Called Day	Gregor	The Public Theater
2020	Grand Horizons	Brian	Hayes Theater
2021	Chicken and Biscuits	Logan Leibowitz	Circle in the Square Theatre

References

External links

• Michael Urie at the Internet Broadway Database
• Michael Urie at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Michael Urie at IMDb 
• Entertainment Weekly interview with Michael Urie and the actors who portray TV assistants Lloyd (Entourage) and Kenneth (30 Rock).
• Interview from Broadway World (August 21, 2007)

На других языках

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[de] Michael Urie

Michael Lorenzo Urie (* 8. August 1980 in Dallas, Texas) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Michael Urie

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[es] Michael Urie

Michael Lorenzo Urie (8 de agosto de 1980) es actor, productor y director. Urie es conocido por su papel de Marc St. James en la teleserie de ABC, Ugly Betty.

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[ru] Ури, Майкл

Майкл Лоре́нцо У́ри (англ. Michael Lorenzo Urie, род. 8 августа 1980) — американский актёр. Наибольшую известность ему принесла роль Марка Сент-Джеймса в сериале «Дурнушка» (2006—2010).

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