Michael Raymond-James is the American actor who portrays Neal Cassidy on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Michael Weverstad,[2] professionally known as Michael Raymond-James, was born on December 24,[1] 1977[2] in Detroit, Michigan,[3] and graduated from Clarkston High School in 1996, where he was a football and track standout.[4] He started out doing theater and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York while paying his way through with odd jobs like waiting tables or building fences in Connecticut. Following several stage appearances in New York, Michael was invited to Los Angeles by a casting director where he met with several agents and executives to get a start on his career.[3]
His feature film debut was the 2006 American drama Black Snake Moan as Gill Morton with big name stars Christina Ricci, Samuel Jackson and Justin Timberlake. Michael has built up his acting credits through guest stars on television like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Boston Legal, Medium, ER, Cold Case and Lie to Me. He took a starring role in 2010 FX series Terriers as Britt Pollack, which was canceled shortly after its first season. He's well known for his portrayal of Cajun accented René Lenier on True Blood and made a notable two episode guest star on the second season of The Walking Dead as a smooth talking and menacing drifter named Dave.
Trivia
- For his role as Neal on ABC's Once Upon a Time, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis offered him the part right away without an audition.[5]
- Has the word "Ohana," which is Hawaiian for family, tattooed over his heart.[4]
- Can play guitar.[6]
- Likes to bring his dog along during filming.[7]
- Has appeared on the television show Game of Silence, which stars Once Upon a Time co-star, Brandon Spink.
- They both play different versions of the same character on Once Upon a Time, as Raymond-James plays Neal Cassidy and Spink plays Baelfire in "Ill-Boding Patterns."
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2006 | Black Snake Moan | Gill | Movie |
2010 | The Twenty | Freeman | Movie |
2008 | True Blood | Rene Lenier | 15 episodes |
2010 | Terriers | Britt Pollack | 13 episodes |
2011 | Law & Order: SVU | Eddie Skinner | Episode: "Smoked" |
2012 | The Walking Dead | Dave | 2 episodes |
2012–2016 | Once Upon a Time | Neal Cassidy | 27 episodes |
Appearances
Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
"Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Three | ||||||||||
"The Heart of the Truest Believer": | "Lost Girl": | "Quite a Common Fairy": | "Nasty Habits": | "Good Form": | "Ariel": | "Dark Hollow": | "Think Lovely Thoughts": | "Save Henry": | "The New Neverland": | "Going Home": |
Appears | Credit Only | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
"New York City Serenade": | "Witch Hunt": | "The Tower": | "Quiet Minds": | "It's Not Easy Being Green": | "The Jolly Roger": | "Bleeding Through": | "A Curious Thing": | "Kansas": | "Snow Drifts": | "There's No Place Like Home": |
Appears | Appears | Credit Only | Appears | Credit Only | Credit Only | Credit Only | Appears | Credit Only | Credit Only | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
"The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |
"Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
"Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive |
Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
"Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
Absent | Archive | Archive | Appears | Archive | ||||||
"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
Absent | Archive | Archive | Archive |
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
External links
- Michael Raymond-James on Internet Movie Database
- Michael Raymond-James on Wikipedia
- @OfficialMichaelRaymondJames (Michael Raymond-James) on Facebook
- @michaelraymondjames (Michael Raymond-James) on Instagram
- @MRaymondJames (Michael Raymond-James) on X, formerly Twitter on Twitter
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://twitter.com/MRaymondJames/status/283241909512699904
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1535423/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.dailyactor.com/2010/11/michael-raymond-james-interview-2/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1535423/bio
- ↑ Reed, Diane J.. A Drifter's Golden Dream. Once Upon a Fan. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. “Well I didn’t audition for this—they called me and said they wanted to offer me a job on the show and so let’s have a meeting and we’ll explain to you who it is.”
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MRaymondJames/status/288052045754290177
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MRaymondJames/status/359805344689569793/photo/1
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