Born in 1987, Canadian actor Michael Seater was on tv nonstop from 2000 to 2010, with a series of homoromantic buddy-bonding roles.
Spencer Sharpe, boyfriend of paranormal investigator Zack (
Robert Clarke, left) on
The Zack Files (2000-2002).
Paranormal investigator Lucas in
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002-2006), who has a love-hate relationship with school bully Vaughn (Robert Clarke again).
Homeless teenager Owen on
Regenesis (2006-2007), who moves in with paranormal investigator David (Peter Outerbridge), but ends up mentally damaged after an experimental treatment to cure his drug addiction (I haven't seen it).
Derek Venturi on
Life with Derek (2005-2009), who has a sibling rivalry with his adopted sister Casey (Ashley Leggat) and, in the first season, an intense, passionate, joined-at-the-hip best buddy, Sam (Kit Weyman).
As usual, his adult roles have involved fewer subtexts:
18 to Life (2010-2011): newlyweds move in with their parents.
The "virgin getting laid" comedy
Sin Bin (2012).
Bomb Girls (2013): women work in a munitions factory during World War II. Engineer Ivan Buchinsky (Michael) is dating one of them.
He's written and directed two movies,
People Hold On (2015) and
Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016), both of which deal with friends having relationships.
Michael is rumored to be gay in real life. He hasn't said anything specific, but his tweets have a lot of gay content, like watching
RuPaul's Drag Race and a claims that a party will be "gayer than a straight bar but straighter than a gay bar," suggesting that he is familiar with bars of both varieties.
