Michael Vartan Filmography

Jolene

Actors: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Donald Sutherland, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: Author E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed short story Jolene: A Life gets the big screen treatment in Mrs. Palfrey at the Clairemont's director Dan Ireland's independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any Read More

Big Shots [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus, Joshua Malina, Dylan McDermott, Paige Turco

Synopsis: Created by Jon Harmon Feldman (whose previous credits included such worthwhile weeklies as American Dreams), the semi-serious Big Shots was pigeonholed in the trade press as a "Sex and the City for guys." The series traced the activities of four upscale male friends who regularly commiserated over Read More

Monster-in-Law

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott

Synopsis: It's not unusual to see two women fighting over the same man in a movie, only this time it's his mother and his fiancée vying for his attention in this broad comedy. While Charlotte Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez), known to her friends as Charlie, has never had much luck in her love life, one day her Read More

Alias: Season 04

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Michael Vartan, Kevin Weisman, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Despite its late start in January of 2005 after a hiatus of eight months, the fourth season of Alias more than made up for lost time with a plethora of trials, tribulations, jaw-dropping revelations, big-time betrayals, and near-death experiences for the series' secret-agent heroine, Sydney Read More

Alias: Season 05

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber, Kevin Weisman, Carl Lumbly, Michael Vartan, Rachel Nichols, Élodie Bouchez, Balthazar Getty

Alias: Season 03

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Melissa George, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, David Anders, Kevin Weisman

Synopsis: As season three of the ABC espionage series gets under way, secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) has still not entirely adjusted to the startling revelation that she has somehow lost track of two years in her life -- and that her partner and erstwhile lover Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) Read More

One Hour Photo

Actors: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Dylan Smith

Synopsis: Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes Read More

Alias: Season 02

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Lena Olin, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Bradley Cooper, Merrin Dungey, Kevin Weisman, David Anders

Synopsis: Cunningly presaged by the cliffhanger at the end of season one, the first episode of Alias' second season confirmed what heroine Sydney A. Bristow (Jennifer Garner) -- college student by day, counterespionage agent the rest of the time -- had feared most: that "The Man," the evil leader of a vast Read More

Sand

Actors: Michael Vartan, Denis Leary, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: Tyler Briggs (Michael Vartan) returns home for his mother's funeral only to encounter the redneck side of the family -- his estranged father Gus (Marshall Bell), his two drug-addled, burned-out half-brothers, and their shady friend Teddy (Denis Leary). Sniffing money, Gus wants to reestablish Read More

Alias: Season 01

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Bradley Cooper, Merrin Dungey, Kevin Weisman

Synopsis: Viewers who tuned into the premiere episode of ABC's espionage series Alias did so already knowing the basic premise: Heroine Sydney A. Bristow (Jennifer Garner) lived a double life, as a "typical" college undergraduate and as an uncover agent for a government organization which she assumed to be Read More

The Mists of Avalon

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Read More

The Next Best Thing

Actors: Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Best buddies Abbie (Madonna), a heterosexual yoga instructor, and Robert (Rupert Everett), a gay landscaper, cope with failed relationships, the approach of middle age, and the AIDS-related death of a mutual friend by sticking together as a "family of choice." Drunk one night, they have sex, and Read More

Ally McBeal: Without a Net

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Ally McBeal: Two's a Crowd

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

It Had to Be You

Actors: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Vartan, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: Former NYC policeman and aspiring author Charlie Hudson (Michael Vartan) is about to marry into a wealthy family and is sent to a hotel near Central Park to spend the weekend without his bride-to-be finalizing plans for the big-deal wedding. He meets in the hotel elevator perky, trivia-obsessed Read More

Never Been Kissed

Actors: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: Many people wish they could go back to high school, knowing what they know as an adult; Josie Geller gets the chance to do just that in the comedy Never Been Kissed. Josie (played by Drew Barrymore) is a 25-year-old copy editor at a newspaper in Chicago. But it's her youthful looks as much as her Read More

Touch Me

Actors: Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: This drama deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on modern relationships. Bridgette (Amanda Peet) is an aspiring young actress who pays her bills by teaching aerobics classes. She meets Adam (Michael Vartan), a ladies' man who runs his father's gymnasium business. They embark on an affair. Read More

The Curve

Actors: Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff, Keri Russell, Tamara Craig Thomas

Synopsis: Dan Rosen directed this thriller, filmed in and around Baltimore, based on the college urban legend that you get a cool 4.0 semester grade if your roommate commits suicide. Roommates Rand (Randall Batinkoff), manipulative Tim (Matthew Lillard), and good-guy Chris (Michael Vartan) are seniors at a Read More

The Myth of Fingerprints

Actors: Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider, Noah Wyle, Arija Bareikis, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Laurel Holloman, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: A family is torn between their need to air out their dirty laundry and their habit of sweeping things under the rug in this emotional drama. Hal (Roy Scheider) and Lena (Blythe Danner) are a successful but emotionally frosty New England couple whose four adult children are coming home for Read More

Friends: The One with Chandler in a Box

Synopsis: After sustaining an eye injury, Monica (Courteney Cox) visits on-call doctor Tim Burke (Michael Vartan), son of her former heartthrob Richard Burke. Apparently, Richard's genes have manifested themselves in the handsome Richard, and he is irresistibly attracted to Monica -- but is the feeling Read More

The Pallbearer

Actors: David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Rapaport, Barbara Hershey, Carol Kane

Synopsis: This dark comedy is a clever homage to classic generation gap comedies such as The Graduate (1967), The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Big Chill (1983), filtered through an ironic Generation X lens. Tom Thompson (David Schwimmer) is unemployed and aimless, hovering between childhood and adult Read More

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest Read More

Fiorile

Actors: Renato Carpentieri, Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Constanze Engelbrecht

Synopsis: In Fiorile (US title: Wild Flower), Italy's Taviani brothers once again dissect the manners and mores of the Tuscany region. The story is predicated on a 200-year-old family curse. During the Napoleonic era, Elizabetta "Fiorile" Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) discovers that her own brother Corado (Claudio Bigagli Read More

Promenades d'ete

Actors: Valerie Stroh, Michael Vartan, Jose Maria Flotats, Marie Guillard, Jean-Yves Berteloot

Synopsis: When a group of student actors travel to a workshop in Dordogne to put on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It as a summer project, they are as lively and high-spirited a group as one could ask for. While they are there, the young man who has the leading role begins casting cow eyes at the Read More

Un Homme et Deux Femmes

Actors: Valerie Stroh, Lambert Wilson, Diane Pierens, Yan Epstein

Synopsis: While contemplating her single state, an unmarried woman writer tosses and turns in bed. Her lover, a doctor, wants her to join him in Paris. On the other hand, she thinks maybe she should end the relationship. All of a sudden, as she lies restless in bed, she is struck with inspiration for three Read More