Everything about Michael Boatman totally explained
Michael Patrick Boatman (born
October 25 1964) is an
Image Award-nominated
American actor and
writer. He is best known for his roles as Carter Heywood in the sitcom
Spin City and as Stanley Babson in
Arli$$
Biography
Boatman was born in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, the son of Gwendolyn Pugh, a job supervisor for the
handicapped, and Daniel Boatman, an
army officer. He was raised in
Chicago. Boatman is a graduate of
Western Illinois University and received its "Alumni Achievement Award" in 1997.
Michael studied acting at Western Illinois University, where he played a variety of roles including
Oberon in
A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Purlie in
Purlie Victorious. He was a member of the student sketch comedy troupe Shock Treatment, which performed at local bars and nightclubs. During his senior year Boatman won the prestigious Irene Ryan theater award for best supporting actor, during the finals competition at the
Kennedy Center.
In 1986, Michael moved to Chicago, where he studied acting with Jane Brody, a popular acting teacher and casting director. Later that same year, he auditioned for and won the role of "Motown" in the critically acclaimed Vietnam action drama,
Hamburger Hill. That same year he appeared in
Running On Empty with
River Phoenix, and
The Trial of Bernard Goetz for the PBS
American Playhouse series. In 1988 he auditioned for the pilot episode of the Vietnam era television drama,
China Beach. He went on to play Samuel Beckett, the mortician in the China Beach mortuary, for the next three seasons. He later co-starred on
The Jackie Thomas Show with
Tom Arnold, and the short-lived WB series
Muscle. In 1996 he won the role of Carter on the ABC sitcom,
Spin City, playing "Carter", the irascible openly gay minority affairs liaison. For his work on
Spin City he was nominated for five
NAACP Image Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. He also won the
GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Association Against Defamation) award for Best Actor.
In 1996, Michael also played the role of "Stanley Babson", the anal-retentive Chief Financial Officer on the
HBO original series
ARLI$$. For his work on
ARLI$$, Michael was nominated for four Image awards, also for Best Supporting Actor. He played the lead role in the critically acclaimed Charles Burnett drama,
The Glass Shield. Later, he appeared in the feature films
The Peacemaker, with
George Clooney and
Nicole Kidman, and
Woman Thou Art Loosed, and in several made-for-TV movies.
In 2007 Michael co-starred in the feature films,
The Killing of Wendy (2008),
American Summer and
My Father's Will. He has had many notable guest appearances, including the season 6 episode "Obscene",
Less Than Perfect,
Yes, Dear,
Scrubs, and
Grey's Anatomy.
Michael is also a screenwriter and novelist. He writes in the
splatterpunk horror genre, and his short stories are included in the multi-author anthologies,
Until Someone Loses an Eye,
Sages and Swords and
Badass Horror, and magazines such as
Weird Tales,
Horror Garage and
Red Scream. His first collection of short stories,
God Laughs When You Die, was published by Dybbuk Press on October 23, 2007.
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