Michael Landes

Michael Christopher Landes (born September 18, 1972) is an American actor of television and film.

Michael Landes
Born	Michael Christopher Landes (1972-09-18) September 18, 1972 (age 52) The Bronx, New York, US
Alma mater	Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present
Spouse	Wendy Benson ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	2

Personal life

Michael Christopher Landes was born to Patricia and Bernard Landes^[1] on September 18, 1972, in The Bronx, New York.^[2] Landes studied performing arts at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles.^[1]

He met Wendy Benson in Boston during the summer of 1999 while they were filming The Gentleman from Boston; they married on October 21, 2000, at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan.^[1] According to Tribute, as of May 2021^[update] they lived in Los Angeles with their two children.^[3]

Career

Landes made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The New Lassie, and Blossom.^[3] In 2016, Landes told Digital Spy that when he was replaced on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman after the first season—"because I looked too much like Dean Cain, who played Clark... and Teri Hatcher, who played Lois"—it was his first time being fired.^[4] For his starring role in the television film Please God, I'm Only Seventeen, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award: Best Young Actor in a Television Movie, and in film, Landes also featured in Hart's War.^[3]

Performance credits

Television performances

Year	Title	Role	Episode(s)	Citation(s)
1988–1989	The Wonder Years	Kirk McCray		[5]
1989	thirtysomething	Young Michael
1991–1992	The Torkelsons	Riley Roberts		[3][5]
1993–1994	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jimmy Olsen	Season one	[6]
1995	Courthouse			[5]
1995–1996	Too Something			[3]
1996	The Drew Carey Show			[5]
1997–1998	Union Square	Michael Weiss	13 episodes	[2]
2001–2002	Special Unit 2	Nick O'Malley		[5]
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple		"4.50 from Paddington"
	Joey
2005	CSI: Miami
	Love Soup	Gil Raymond	Series 1	[7][8]
2006	Ghost Whisperer			[5]
2007	The Wedding Bells	David Conlon
2008	Boston Legal	Leo Morris
2009	New Tricks	Leonard Kuziak	"The Truth Is Out There"	[9]
2010	Miranda	Danny	"The New Me"	[10]
2012	Upstairs Downstairs	Caspar Landry		[5]
	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
2013	Save Me	Tom
	The Crazy Ones	Josh Hayes
2014	Reckless
2016	American Dad!
	Hooten & the Lady	Ulysses Hooten		[11]
2018	You Are Wanted			[5]
2019	Traitors	Caspar Woods
2019–2020	Silent Witness	Matt Garcia	4 episodes	[12]
2020	The Liberator			[13]
2021	Cruel Summer	Greg Turner		[5]

Film performances

Year	Title	Role	Citation(s)
1996	No Greater Love	George Winfield	[5]
	Dream for an Insomniac	Rob	[14]
2003	Final Destination 2	Thomas Burke	[15]
2016	The Disappointments Room	Teddy	[16]
2017	Gold		[3]
2024	Arthur the King		[17]