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My Take
What strikes me about Michael Raymond-James is how he kept reinventing the kind of guy he plays. I first noticed him as the volatile RenE in True Blood's debut season, and then he turned up as Baelfire on Once Upon a Time and a mobster in Godfather of Harlem. That's a Detroit-born actor who, born Weverstad on Christmas Eve 1977, seems happiest in morally messy roles rather than clean heroes. Terriers gave him a cult following too. I tend to remember his face before his name, which to me is the mark of a working character actor doing his job well.
Overview
Michael Raymond-James (born Michael Weverstad; December 24, 1977) 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, Mitch Longo on the CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story and Joseph Colombo in Godfather of Harlem.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michael Raymond-James
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・レイモンド＝ジェームズ
- Reading
- まいける・れいもんど＝じぇーむず
- Born
- December 24, 1977 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Clarkston High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.