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Michael Lorenzo Urie (born
August 8,
1980) is an actor, producer and director. He is best known for his portrayal of
Marc St. James on the ABC
dramedy series
Ugly Betty.
Education
Urie attended
Plano Senior High School,
Vines High School and
Haggard Middle School, all in
Plano, Texas.
In
1998, he won a Dramatic Interpretation award for
Confessions of a Nightingale by Charlotte Chandler at the
National Forensic League National Tournament in
St. Louis, Missouri. Urie graduated from the
Juilliard School, class of 2003.
Career
While still a student at Juilliard, Urie 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. In addition to this, he appeared in student productions of
Sylvia (1998) and
Locked Away (1999) at Quad C Theatre.
Urie played the central character in the stage play
WTC View as well as in the film adaptation. He is currently finishing a
short documentary film,
Two Down that centers on high school speech and debate tournaments, for Frontal Lobe Productions.
He is on the board of Plum Productions and serves as its casting director. With the same company he's produced and appeared in
Prachtoberfest and
lowbrow (and a little bit tacky). As a freelance producer, he's worked on
Like The Mountains and
The Fantasticks (Four Players Theatre). He also directed the latter production.
When Urie landed the role of "Marc St. James" on
Ugly Betty, his character was supposed to be a recurring regular, but Urie was billed as guest starring in the credits, which was due to contractual disputes. After these issues were resolved, Urie was made a full time regular.
Patti LuPone played Marc's mother in at least one episode. 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.
During the
2007-2008 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.
Personal life
In a December 2006 issue of
dot glbt news magazine, it was reported that Urie is openly gay, though in an article for
USA Today he said that, even though he's single, he didn't want to divulge any information on his sexual orientation or his love life: "It's not black and white; I'm still young, still figuring my life out," he says. "I love the mystery. I'm not going to lie, but I'm not going to talk about it."
Later, the website
OutinHollywood.com had an interview with Urie discussing his sexuality. When asked if he was "out", Urie said "no" and handled the conversation "gracefully" by explaining that he wasn't and noted that
dot glbt news had retracted the article that had originally outed him.
Just like on
Ugly Betty, Urie is best friends with fellow cast member
Becki Newton. Both of them are the hosts of the official podcast of the show.
He Has a brother called
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