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Michael Easton: Links, Bio, Pictures

Michael as Stephen/Caleb in "Port Charles"

Filmography from IMDb
One Life to Live TV Series (2003-Present) .... Agent/Detective John McBain
They're Just My Friends (2006) .... Detective McCarthy
The View TV Episode - (8 February 2006) .... Himself
The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2005) .... Presenter
18th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (2003) .... Himself
Mutant X 4 TV Episodes
- "The Future Revealed" (2002) .... Gabriel Ashlocke
- "Time Squared" (2002) .... Gabriel Ashlocke
- "Past as Prologue" (2002) .... Gabriel Ashlocke
- "A Breed Apart" (2002) .... Gabriel Ashlocke
Monty (2001) .... (Writer)
Diamond Hunters (2001) TV Miniseries .... Benedict Van der Byl
Bull TV Episode - "Visit" .... Timothy Alter
The '70s TV Movie (2000) .... Nick
Total Recall 2070 TV Series (1999) .... David Hume
Total Recall 2070 TV Movie (1999) ..... David Hume
What We Did That Night TV Movie (1999) .... Charlie
The Practice TV Episode - "The Battlefield" (1998) .... Glenn
Ally McBeal 3 TV Episodes
- "Being There" (1998) .... Glenn
- "The Blame Game" (1998) .... Glenn
- "Cro-Magnon" (1998) .... Glenn
413 Hope St. TV Series (1997-1998) .... Nick Carrington
Port Charles TV Series (1997) .... Caleb Morley
Two TV Series (1996) .... Gus McClain/Booth Hubbard
Daedalus Is Dead (1996) ..... (Director)
Dazzle TV Movie (1995) .... Nick
VR.5 TV Episode - 5D .... Duncan
The Jon Stewart Show TV Episode - (3 April 1994) .... Himself
Diagnosis Murder TV Episode - "Shaker" (1994) .... Rick Bennett
Shadow of a Stranger TV Movie (1992) .... Shawn
Days of Our Lives TV Series (1991-1992) .... Tanner Scofield
The Art of Dying (1991) .... Bobby
The Killing Zone (1991) .... Uncredited
Coldfire (1990) .... Jake Edwards

Bio from Michael Easton Corner
Mother: Joan (passed away in January 1994)
Father: Stewart (Engineer)
Siblings: Keith (younger) (Navy Pilot)
Marital Status: Michael has a girlfriend (Ginevra Arabia).
Height: 6'0"
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue

Michael Easton was born on Feburary 15, 1967 in Long Beach, California, when his parents came to the wedding of his father´s best friend there. His parents are Irish and they took him to to their native Ireland when he was 2. Due to his father's engineering travels the family commuted between Ireland and the United States throughout his childhood and he went to seven different schools. "I dropped out a few times, got tossed out a couple times. In fact, I never really had good friends until I was 15 and stayed in the same school for a few years. I was extremely shy as a kid and it was more in my character to be a writer," Michael recalls, "yet something about watching old movies such as "From Here to Eternity" and "A Place in the Sun" moved me. I wanted to be like these characters."

After high school he felt a need to break away from everything. "I had a hard time dealing with what I wanted to do with my life," Michael Easton once said. "There was a lot of uncertainty there. At the time, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a poet." Michael´s poetic bent surfaced during a high school creative writing class. His teacher gave him a lot of encouragement. One of the first poets he read was Charles Bukowski. And Bukowski turned him on to Raymond Carver. The whole thing snowballed, and he realized how much he loved literature. In college Michael Easton ended up with a double major of English and history, with an emphasis on Greek History. But he wasn´t quite ready to put his all into academics and he eventually decided college wasn´t where he wanted to be. He left the school and went traveling around Europe for a while, taking copious notes along the way. "If I was sitting in a restaurant I´d write on a napkin. I put all these scraps in a box, but didn´t finish a lot of the stuff. That was always the hard part for me. But in the course of time I finished all of it. I had this need to put a close on the part of my life." The close resulted in a book Michael Easton called "Drift", "because I wrote it while drifting. I opens with the Indian quote, 'You can carry heaven and hell with you', and has 60 poems in it. It´s contemporary poetry. A lot of it has to do with relationships, alcohol ... Parts of it are raw, but it´s honest."

After high school he felt a need to break away from everything. "I had a hard time dealing with what I wanted to do with my life," Michael Easton once said. "There was a lot of uncertainty there. At the time, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a poet." Michael´s poetic bent surfaced during a high school creative writing class. His teacher gave him a lot of encouragement. One of the first poets he read was Charles Bukowski. And Bukowski turned him on to Raymond Carver. The whole thing snowballed, and he realized how much he loved literature. In college Michael Easton ended up with a double major of English and history, with an emphasis on Greek History. But he wasn´t quite ready to put his all into academics and he eventually decided college wasn´t where he wanted to be. He left the school and went traveling around Europe for a while, taking copious notes along the way. "If I was sitting in a restaurant I´d write on a napkin. I put all these scraps in a box, but didn´t finish a lot of the stuff. That was always the hard part for me. But in the course of time I finished all of it. I had this need to put a close on the part of my life." The close resulted in a book Michael Easton called "Drift", "because I wrote it while drifting. I opens with the Indian quote, 'You can carry heaven and hell with you', and has 60 poems in it. It´s contemporary poetry. A lot of it has to do with relationships, alcohol ... Parts of it are raw, but it´s honest."

Michael Easton made his TV movie debut in 1992 in "Shadow of a Stranger" with Emma Samms and Parker Stevenson. To prepare for this role, Michael spent six weeks working out with a personal trainer and followed a strict no-starch/high-protein diet. "I ate nothing but tuna, salmon, fruits and vegetables. I lost 11 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks. I wanted to look lean and hungry for this part, what I used to be like as an actor before I started working. A lot of people advised me not to do this character. They were reluctand about it. They told me I created a romantic hero-type lead on "Days" and should continue to go with that. But I´m an actor. I don´t care what anybody thinks of me for taking this part. I have a responsibility to choose the best parts."

After playing in "Shadow of a Stranger" Michael Easton quit acting for almost two years. He moved back to the family home in New York State. The move was precipitated by his mother´s declining health. She died in January 1994, after a two-year bout with cancer. "My mom was the most wonderful person. I was closer to her than anyone. I had no desire to work during or after that time. Fortunately, I have an understanding agent. The only good thing I can draw from losing my mother is that I got to say all the things to her that I needed to."

When Michael Easton did go back to auditioning (1994) he ended up jumping into various projects at that time - the short lived FOX show "VR5" (he played opposite Lori Singer on the network's first virtual reality series), the Judith Krantz miniseries "Dazzle", and he landed a guest role in "Diagnosis Murder" (CBS). He filmed a pilot episode for a new television series "SHE" (a HBO TV series), but the series was never broadcast. Michael followed his numerous creative muses in all directions. He wrote, produced, directed and edited the award winning festival film "Daedalus is Dead," and he has starred in "The Door" at the Tamarind Theater in Los Angeles (1995). "Daedalus Is Dead" premiered at the British Short Film Festival (1996) and took home the award for best dramatic short film (1996) in The Sea and Sky Festival in Canada. The film, about a young girl´s hitchhiking adventures from Tijuana to Nothern California, toook six months to post-produce because of Michael´s tight budget. "I have a buddy who has an inside track at an editing facility, so I´d get calls at three in the morning saying I could come in for three hours," recalls Michael. "Then I´d ride my motorcycle over in my pajamas to edit."

In 1996 Michael Easton was cast in the role of identical twin brothers in Stephen J. Cannell's action-adventure series, "TWO". He was already familiar with the world of high-tech visual effects. "My experience on the series VR.5 gave me a solid background in acting against blue screens," Michael remembered, "but the process we use to create scenes with the twin brothers is the most bizarre thing I've ever done." Motion control is responsible for incredible moments, such as the scene in the pilot episode where Gus is seated on a park bench and Booth crosses behind the bench and pats his brother on the shoulder. No doubles are used, only a cast of his shoulder, which is rigged to the bench. "As Booth, I'm acting to this shoulder. I have to establish an eye-line to where Gus' face would be and hone in on it. I walk around behind the bench and put my hand on the shoulder. Then, as Gus, I sit on the bench and slide my arm into the shoulder harness. I have to remember what I did as Booth, where I walked, so Gus can follow the movement with his eyes and react to having his shoulder touched, even though no one's really touching it at the moment. You have to be very precise with all your actions and emotional responses. It's a little like choreography." Though Michael described Gus as "a nice guy", he admitted he preferred playing Booth. "The bad guys are always more fun to play. You can be more over the top, and Booth is definitely a little over the top." In addition to starring in front of the "TWO" cameras, Michael managed to stay busy behind the scenes as well. He co-wrote the second episode of the series, "AD", together with writer Kathy McCormick, and wrote the episode, "The Reckoning."

Following the cancellation of "TWO" after the first season, Michael joined the cast of "413 Hope Street" (1997). He used his downtime between "TWO" and "413 Hope Street" to read scripts, although he wasn´t sure he wanted to return to primetime immediately. "I wasn´t planning to jump back in TV, but then "Hope Street" popped up. It was a great script, and I said, 'I want to be a part of it'". He portrayed "Nick Carrington", a former drug addict-turned-counselor who oversaw the sports program at 413 HOPE ST. Michael found the part of "Nick Carrington" on "413 Hope Street" to be his most potentially rewarding to date. The fictional setting of the show was based on an actual, privately sponsored rehab facility in New York called The Door, which treats everything from HIV to drug addiction.

A few weeks after "413 Hope Street" debuted, Michael Easton became a published poet. Eighteen Straight Whiskeys, a 91 page collection of raw, hard edged emotional musings on drinking and drugs, was published by Bowery Press in October, 1997. This book marked an important milestone in the actor´s live. "I got interested in writing poetry in Vancouver (B.C.) when I was doing a show [TWO]. One of the writers was a local poet, and I attended some readings. So I wrote some poems and read them at their meetings. One night an agent for a New York publishing house said, 'I think your stuff is pretty good. Would you mind if I send them in?''' Thereafter Michael Easton began writing poetry in earnest. "There is no glory in writing poetry, and very little money. I figure I'd sold my soul to the devil doing TV shows. There is something very honest about poetry. I think I express myself better than I do writing scripts or acting. I have friends in New York who are die-by-the-breath poets who never try to sell their poetry, which is crazy too. You need to get it out there. I chose the title 'Eighteen Straight Whiskeys' because it supposedly was the last line Dylan Thomas ever spoke. I'm Irish, and as a Celt there is poetry in my blood, you know? I think there's something noble about it to balance out your life in the fake world of TV.''

As "413 Hope Street" came to an end Michael´s next appearance was in "Ally McBeal". "I was doing a show at the time, `413 Hope St.´, which had just been canceled," Michael recalled. "So I was very depressed and then I got a call to meet with David Kelley." "Ally" fans know that Easton played a nude model who had everybody asking, "Does size matter?" "The next thing I know, they're actually debating that size does matter on the radio," he laughed. "It was unbelievable." Michael later returned for a few episodes of "Ally McBeal" and its sister show, "The Practice."

In the same year he played "Charlie" in "What We Did That Night", also known under "Murder at Devil's Creek" (ABC TV movie of the week, 1/18/99), and he sold a screenplay about the troubled life of actor Montgomery Clift (June 1998). Michael did extensive research to write the screenplay. "I read every book that was written -- 6 of them -- over 100 articles in newspapers and magazines. I spoke with 20 people who worked with him. It did four years of research. Why did I want to write a movie about him? I used to stay up late watching old movies, and when I was 12, I watched 'A Place in the Sun,' and his performance motivated me to become an actor. He led a very unusual, bizarre life, and it sort of summed up what it was like to spend time in this community."

Michael´s next project was "Total Recall 2070". His new series began production in Toronto in June 29, 1998. Michael Easton played "David Hume". Hume is an investigator of the Citizens Protection Bureau. After his long-standing partner has been killed he gets a new partner, an android; Farve (Karl Pruner). The 22 one-hour episodes are based on the blockbuster motion picture "Total Recall". "When I first heard the name I immediately thought of the movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger," Michael said in an interview. "The show uses elements from the Total Recall film but not the Schwarzenegger character. It´s more in the vein of Blade Runner and that world. Both these movies were losely based on stories written by Science Fiction author Phillip K. Dick, whom I´m a big fan of." Michael received a 1999 Gemini Award nomination in the category "Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role" for his work in the TR2070 episode "Allure." Showtime cancelled "Total Recall 2070" after its first season.

In 2000 Michael´s next appearance was as "Nick" in the NBC miniseries "The 70s" which aired on April 30th. The shooting of "Diamond Hunters" followed (based on Wilbur Smith's novel, "The Diamond Hunters") which was filmed in South Africa. In it, Michael portrays "Benedict Van der Byl". Played out over two episodes, "Diamond Hunters" describes Johnny's thwarted attempts to win the approval of Jacob, and the under-hand schemes by which the inimical Benedict plans to defeat him. Tracey (Alyssa Milano), Benedict's sister and Johnny's true love, further complicates the fraternal rivalry, as all attempt to overcome the demons that survive from their troubled childhood. Starring: Alyssa Milano: Tracey; Roy Scheider: Jacob; Michael Easton: Benedict; Sean Patrick Flannery: Johnny; Armin Rohde; Hannes Jaenicke. Also in 2000 Michael filmed an episode for a TNT series namely "Bull". "Bull" is the story of a team of investment bankers and traders who rock Wall Street when they break away from an established financial firm to start their own company. The series debuted in August 2000 and had been cancelled in December 2000. The episode "Visit" in which Michael played a character named "Timothy Alter" has never been aired.

At the beginning of 2001, Michael Easton sold a new screenplay titled "Hunting Icarus" to Neverland Films. Originally titled "Blood on Canvas," the feature film is a psychological/political thriller set for production sometime in the future.

A few months later (from May 11 to November 30, 2001) he guest-starred in the ABC daytime drama "Port Charles". His fascinating performance as the "twin brothers" 'Caleb and Michael Morley' caused "Soap Opera Weekly" to the remarks, "The idea of a sexy vampire is hardly new, but watching Michael Easton as Caleb on Port Charles is a revelation. Easton has been so mesmerizing that his performance ranks right up there with the most charismatic creatures of the night" ... "from the moment he first appeared on-screen as Caleb, rising up from the darkness in the monastery cellar, Easton's hypnotic stare and raw animal magnetism have drawn us into his underworld. Easton's performance is powerful but understated" ... "as if that weren't enough, Easton is doing double-duty as Caleb's twin brother, Father Michael. In sharp contrast to his evil sibling, Michael is so mild-mannered, soft-spoken and asexual you almost forget they're played by the same actor. Michael's gentle soul shines through in his portrayer's eyes with the same intensity as Caleb's blood-lust. For Easton, one look is worth a thousand words."

Originally the vampire storyline was set up to run just till August 2001. But due to the high ratings it had been extended till at the end of November. Much of the credit, PC executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers said in an interview with TV Guide (August 2001), must go to Michael Easton. "He has brought such a level of believability and commitment to his roles that he has raised the bar for everyone. And I don't just mean other actors, but the boom operators, the camera crew, the make up people, everybody." Shortly before "Tainted Love" finished with a grandiose finale - where Michael Easton lifted his brilliant performance of the two characters to heights probably not expected - it turned out that "Caleb" and "Father Michael" were the same person. After a short interval "Caleb" appeared in "Tempted". But many viewers missed the brilliant dialogs between the "twin brothers". In the end "Caleb" is killed by "Livvie".

In May 2002 Michael Easton guest-starred as "Gabriel Ashlocke" in the season finale of "Mutant X". The episode is titled "A Breed Apart". The "A Breed Apart" episode closed the season with the introduction of Patient Zero (Gabriel Ashlocke), a powerful new mutant. In the episode, "Gabriel Ashlocke", who was placed in confinement during childhood when his sociopathic nature was revealed, is released by one of his devout followers. Immediately, he embarks on a mission to destroy "Mutant X" by recruiting mutants into his organization with the intent of taking over the world. The second season began in late September 2002. Michael Easton played the character of "Gabriel Ashlocke" in three episodes namely "Past as Prologue", "Time Squared" and "The Future Revealed". Also at the same time began the ninth "Port Charles" arc "Naked Eyes". Many fans fought very hard for Michael´s return to "PC" and eventually their stubbornness was honored. However, he returned as "Stephen Clay", a famous rock singer who´s face was completely unknown till the concert. In "Surrender" (which started on December 30, 2002) it finally turned out that "Stephen Clay" is really "Caleb". In early April 2003 "Surrender" ended and "Desire" was the title of the 12th arc. "The Gift" was the 13th and final arc. To the disappointment of the fans "Port Charles" has been cancelled. Michael was the first one of the Port Charles cast getting a new challenge. He had offers from three different Daytime shows. First he was not sure whether he should accept a role in a Daytime show again. Then he decided on "One Life to Live".

In the TV Guide interview from August 2001, Michael has made a statement concerning selecting roles. "People think I'm doing this because I need the money, but I go where the work is interesting. I've never had a bias about mediums." With this attitude Michael´s fans can look forward to many more performances and writing scripts or maybe even another book from this talented and versatile artist.

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