- Born
- Birth nameMichael Weverstad
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Michael Raymond-James is an American actor. He is best known for playing René Lenier in the first season of the HBO series True Blood, Britt Pollack on the FX series Terriers, Neal Cassidy/Baelfire on the ABC series Once Upon a Time, and Mitch Longo on the CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ParentsMichele AnnAlan Ray Weverstad
- Hired his own dialect coach for his work in "True Blood".
- Trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York City.
- Has the word 'Ohana' (which is Hawaiian for family) tattooed over his heart.
- Is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
- Was a football and track standout in High School.
- No I wasn't. I didn't know anything about the books, or I didn't know much about vampires. It's a little embarrassing. In fact I had to give an interview in Louisiana, one time, they asked who my favorite vampire was and the only one I could think of was Count Chocula. There's a lot of pressure in these interviews, you want to sound interesting and you come across sounding like an idiot. (On being asked if he was aware of the novels by Charlaine Harris that the show "True Blood" was based on, beforehand)
- Research is something that I really enjoy as an actor and it's something that I really throw myself into. I don't want to leave any stone unturned, so there's no way I would have gone on set having not known the arc of the character and the direction he was going to go.
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