Michael Urie

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Michael Urie (2012)

Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American actor .

biography

Michael Urie was born in Texas in 1980 and grew up in Plano , a suburb of Dallas. He attended Plano Senior High School, where he excelled at the debating club and participated in the school's own productions and community theater plays. He played the tin man in The Wizard of Oz and was seen as Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music . He plays Danny Zuko in the musical Grease .

After graduating from school, Urie moved to New York and attended the renowned Juilliard School , where such well-known actors as William Hurt , Elizabeth McGovern and Robin Williams completed their training before him . In 2002 he won the coveted John Houseman Prize for his performances in classical theater plays. In the same year Urie starred in an episode of the sixth season of the television series Undressed - Who with whom? With. The revealing concept produced by the music broadcaster MTV had the heterosexual and homosexual relationships of young people, especially high school and college students, on the subject.

In 2003 Michael Urie completed his acting studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and has since appeared in numerous stage productions in the USA, often in supporting roles in classical plays. So he was u. a. 2003 Boyet directed by Lost Love's Labor of Judith Shakespeare Company to see as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Folger Theater in 2005 and as lussurioso in Cyril Tourneur tragedy of the avenger (Culture Project, in 2005). Parallel to his work at the theater, Urie made his cinema debut in 2003 with a nameless role in the comedy Uptown Girls - a bitch rarely comes alone and was seen in the following year in the television film Kat Plus One alongside Marisa Coughlan and Christina Pickles .

His first movie star role followed in 2005 in Brian Sloan's independent film WTC View , in which Urie played a young homosexual who placed an ad against the backdrop of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in order to find a roommate for his apartment with a view of the world trade Center to find. Urie had already worked in the stage version of WTC View in New York in 2003 .

In 2006, Michael Urie played the role of a married geologist in the critically disdained off-off Broadway play Phenomenon , which was about the Mount St. Helens eruption when he successfully starred for Marc St. James on the television series Everything Betty! auditioned. The role of the scheming, homosexual assistant to Vanessa Williams , who was not originally conceived as a regular series character, also made him known to an international audience. In 2007 he received a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award together with the cast around America Ferrera and Eric Mabius .

After filming the first season, Urie returned to the theater and starred as Horatio in the South Coast Repertory production of Hamlet at the San Diego Summer Shakespeare Festival . He also worked on a short documentary entitled Two Down , which is about the speaking and debating competitions at US high schools.

Filmography (selection)

Plays (selection)

  • 2003: Lost Love's Labor's ( Love's Labor's Lost , as Boyet)
  • 2004: The Roaring Girl (as Sebastian)
  • 2004: Like The Mountains (as Erich)
  • 2005: Romeo and Juliet ( Romeo and Juliet , as Mercutio)
  • 2005: The King Stag (as Cigolotti / Pantalone)
  • 2005: The Revenger's Tragedy (as Lussurioso)
  • 2006: Phenomenon (as Mark)
  • 2006: A Midsummer Night's Dream ( A Midsummer Night's Dream , as Flute / Thisby)
  • 2006: Othello (as Roderigo)
  • 2006: Titus Andronicus (as Chiron)
  • 2007: Hamlet (as Horatio)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b USA Today article All the world's a stage for Michael Urie (English)
  2. ↑ Short profile at quadctheatre.org ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quadctheatre.org
  3. ↑ Riley, Jenelle: Comedy isn't pretty: Becki Newton and Michael Urie are at their bestplaying bad on Ugly Betty . In: Back Stage West 13 (2006), No. 50, p. 42-A (2)
  4. ↑ Hoban, Phoebe: Rattled Nerves and an Angry Volcano: Theater Review 'Phenomenon' . In: The New York Times on the Web, March 8, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Urie, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urie, Michael Lorenzo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas