![]() ![]() When Port Charles ended, Michael began work as Detective John McBain on One Life to Live in 2003 – a role he played for the next nine years. ![]() The classic cult film Blade Runner was also a major influence on the series’ narrative tone and visual style, exploring themes of eugenics, class/caste systems, rule by minority, and oligarchy juxtaposed with human rights and individual rights and autonomy.Įaston returned to Daytime with ABC's Port Charles, a spinoff of General Hospital that took a more supernatural turn, as he helped shape and create the vampire antagonist Caleb Morley. Dick’s short story " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" and novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The series was shot in Toronto, and is a loose adaptation of Philip K. ![]() The Showtime series Total Recall 2070 featured him in the leading role as David Hume, a detective partnered with a sentient and self-aware android. Both shows were the brainchildren of producer David E. He went on to play the role in a short arc on the award-winning series The Practice. In 1998, Easton was featured in a multi-episode arc of Ally McBeal as Glenn, for which one episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy. Easton later described the experience as one of the most creatively and personally rewarding of his career. The show tackled topics including the struggles of drug addiction and recovery, homelessness, racism, hate crimes, HIV and AIDS, social justice, income inequality, and disproportionate Black conviction and incarceration. Easton played Nick Carrington, a former drug addict and counselor at an inner-city crisis center. In 1997 he landed a role on Damon Wayans’ 413 Hope Street with Jesse L. Easton co-wrote the episode “A.D.”, and also penned the series finale, “The Reckoning”. He played the dual roles of a Seattle professor who is framed for murder by his previously unknown twin, and is forced to go on the run from the FBI in order to clear himself of his brother's crimes. This was followed up with a turn as the lead in showrunner Stephen J. Įaston returned to acting in 1995 with Fox's VR.5 as Duncan, co-starring with Fame alumni Lori Singer and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Anthony Head. Easton returned to Los Angeles to care for her until her death in 1994. While on the show, he was featured in People Magazine’s “ 50 Most Beautiful Issue” in 1992, and left the role when his mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993. His first major series role was a two-year stint on NBC's Days of Our Lives, playing Tanner Scofield when he was just 25. He attended high school and then UCLA when he returned to the United States, and graduated with a double major in English and History. Although the Emmy-nominated actor may be best known for his work on the series Ally McBeal, VR.5, Total Recall 2070, One Life to Live and General Hospital, he is also the author of several critically-acclaimed novels, including the trilogy Soul Stealer, and is an accomplished director whose films have earned multiple independent film awards.īorn in Inglewood, California, Easton was raised and educated in the US and Ireland. Michael Easton (born February 15, 1967) is an American film, television and voice actor, writer, and director. ![]()
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