Blake Michael

Blake Michael (born July 31, 1996) is an American actor, businessman, and journalist. He played Charlie Delgado in the Disney Channel original movie Lemonade Mouth (2011) and Tyler James in the Disney Channel series Dog with a Blog (2012–2015), which won him the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Television Series. For directing the short film Notes of Hers (2013), he won the Audience Choice Award from the Red Rock Film Festival.

Blake Michael
Michael in 2015
Born	(1996-07-31) July 31, 1996 (age 28) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.[1]
Occupations	Actor businessman journalist
Years active	2004–present

As of 2025^[update], his last role was in a 2019 episode of What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage, choosing to focus on other endeavours. In 2021, Michael became the Chief Evangelist of Lumanu, a social media management company aimed at helping online creators manage their brand and business, and began writing for Forbes as a marketing expert and business analyst.

Life and career

Michael was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and is of Puerto Rican and Russian Jewish descent.^[2] Michael's career as a child actor began at the age of three, when he started booking print ad jobs. Michael enrolled at the Company Acting Studio in Atlanta at the age of five, and was discovered by a talent agent when he was six.^[3] His first commercial role was for Bojangles' Famous Chicken, alongside NFL quarterback Jake Delhomme. At age ten, he was chosen to host of a series of four commercials for Hasbro Toys that would air on Cartoon Network. After the ad campaign, Cartoon Network invited Michael to present and host his own show on the network, which culminated in two shows named Fried Dynamite, which aired on Fridays, and Dynamite Action Squad! on Saturdays.^[4]

In May 2010, Blake appeared in No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School and later joined with the film's star, country singer Celeste Kellogg, to create and sing a duet titled "Looking In Your Eyes".^[5] He made a small cameo in Kellogg's music video "My Jeans".^[6] In June 2010, he was discovered in an open casting call and was cast in a co-lead role as Charlie Delgado in the Disney Channel made-for-TV movie musical Lemonade Mouth.^[7] Michael later called this role the one that "catapulted his career" and "helped him gain an audience".^[8] Soon after, Disney approached Michael and asked him to read for a role on an upcoming sitcom.^[9] Michael later accepted the role as Tyler James in the Disney Channel sitcom Dog with a Blog, who he portrayed from 2012 to 2015.^[10]

As a director, Michael directed the short film Anonymous in 2011, and Notes of Hers in 2013, the latter of which was featured at the Toronto Student Film Festival, and won the Audience Choice Award at the Red Rock Film Festival.^[11][3] In 2015, he appeared as Chase in the Lifetime television movie I Killed My BFF.^[12] In 2018, he voiced Curtis in eight episodes of Voltron: Legendary Defender.^[13] In 2019, he was featured as Pete in Princess of the Row, which premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival.^[14]

In 2021, Michael joined the board of directors of Lumanu, a social media management company, as the Chief Evangelist.^[15] He was inspired to help other creators elevate their social status on the internet instead of following what he called the "traditional Hollywood film route", using experience he gained from becoming one of the first and youngest people to be officially partnered with YouTube from a young age.^[16] He also began writing for Forbes as a marketing expert, and to promote Lumanu's services, that same year.^[17]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Chosen	Restaurant Patron
2008	Elephant Juice	Jim	Short film
2009	Magellan	Austin Brewer
2010	No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School	Zach
2011	The Mortician	Street Kid
	Living with N.A.D.S.: The Jimmy Epson Story	Jimmy Epson	Short film
2014	Mostly Ghostly: One Night in Doom House	Nicky
2017	The Student	Vance Van Sickle
2019	Princess of the Row	Pete

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	October Road	Young Ronny	Episode: "Pilot"[18]
2008	Out of Jimmy's Head	Stop Light Kid	Episode: "Bad Fad"
2011	Lemonade Mouth	Charlie Delgado	Television film[19]
2012	True Blood	Teenage Alcide Herveaux	Episode: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"[20]
2012–2015	Dog with a Blog	Tyler James	Main role[10]
2013	Melissa & Joey	Archer Adams	Episode: "Inside Job"[18]
2015	I Killed My BFF	Chase	Television film[12]
2018	Voltron: Legendary Defender	Curtis (voice)	Recurring role; 8 episodes[13]
2019	What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage	Corey	Episode: "Havenbrook"

Director

Year	Title	Notes
2011	Anonymous	Short film
2013	Notes of Hers

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2013	Young Artist Award	Best Leading Young Actor in a Television Series	Dog with a Blog	Won	[21]
	Red Rock Film Festival	Audience Choice Award	Notes of Hers	Won	[11]