Michael Raymond-James

Michael Raymond-James Biography

Michael Raymond-James (born Michael Weverstad; December 24, 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ren 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.

Life and career

Raymond-James was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated Clarkston High School in 1996, where he was a football and track standout. He started out doing theater and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, with George Loros, Geoffrey Horne and Robert Castle. Following several stage appearances in New York, including 'The Petrified Forest' at the Pantheon Theater, he relocated to Los Angeles.

He has guest starred in such series as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Medium, Boston Legal, ER and the season two premiere of Lie to Me. He starred in the FX original series Terriers which was canceled by FX on December 6, 2010 after the first season.

In his feature debut Raymond-James played the best friend of Justin Timberlake's character in Black Snake Moan with Christina Ricci and Samuel Jackson. The actor also starred in Jonny Hirschbein's award-winning short film 'The Fix,' working alongside Robert Patrick and David Paymer. His feature-film credits include 'Moonlight Serenade,' starring as a piano prodigy opposite Academy Award Nominee Amy Adams.

In an episode of The Walking Dead titled "Nebraska", Raymond-James played a young man named Dave, who presents a threat to series protagonist Rick Grimes and his group.

He starred in Once Upon a Time as Neal Cassidy/Baelfire, who is Henry's father as well as Rumpelstiltskin's son and is later revealed to be the grandson of Peter Pan.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Minor Blues	Dill
2006	Black Snake Moan	Gill
2010	The Twenty	Unknown
2011	Bowman	Mickey	Short film
2012	Jack Reacher	Linsky
2013	Road to Paloma	Irish
2014	The Salvation	Paul
2016	The Finest Hours	D.A. Brown
2017	Carter & June	Carter Jennings

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Line of Fire	Threat	Episode: "Take the Money and Run"
2003	The Handler	Mace	Episode: "Off the Edge"
2004	ER	Mr. Tunny	Episode: "Try Carter"
2004	North Shore	Damien Pruitt	Episode: "Meteor Shower"
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Aaron Colite	Episode: "Unbearable"
2006	Boston Legal	Kevin Armus	Episode: "Ivan the Incorrigible"
2006	Medium	Travis McQueen	Episode: "Ghost in the Machine"
2008-2011	True Blood	Rene Leiner	14 episodes
2009	ER	Jordan	Episode: "Dream Runner"
	ER	Stuart Moore	Episode: "The Family Man"
	Cold Case	John "Shameless" Clark '76	Episode: "Jackals"
	Lie to Me	Gavin Howell	Episode: "The Core of It"
	Life	Tex	Episode: "Canyon Flowers"
	Last of the Ninth	Tommy "Babyface" Leone	Television film
2010	Saving Grace	Westy Stevenson	Episode: "Hear the Birds?"
2010	Terriers	Britt Pollack	13 episodes
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Eddie Skinner	Episode: "Smoked"
2012	The Walking Dead	Dave	Episode: "Nebraska"
2015	Sons of Liberty	Paul Revere	TV miniseries
2012-2016	Once Upon a Time	Neal Cassidy/Baelfire	24 episodes
2016	Game of Silence	Gil Harris	10 Episodes
2016	Lethal Weapon	Chad Jackson	Episode: "Spilt Milk"
2018	Frontier	Fortunato
2018	Tell Me a Story	Mitch Longo

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