Born in Hermosa Beach, California on February 15, 1967, Michael Easton was raised in both the United States and Ireland, the native home of his parents.

During high school he began writing poetry, and was particularly inspired by the works of Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver.  He attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he had a double major in English and history, with an emphasis on Greek History.

Before completing his degrees Michael decided to leave school, and he traveled extensively through Europe.  He compiled his writings from the trip into a manuscript he called Drift.  While Drift itself was never published into a book, those writings were later merged into Michael’s first published book of poetry entitled Eighteen Straight Whiskeys.

Michael returned from Europe and decided to continue his education at the University of California at Los Angeles.  He studied writing and directing, and his last course at UCLA was acting.  He started writing plays while in school and performed them in Los Angeles.

Michael studied theater at New York University, and did theater work there as well, supporting himself with a long string of odd jobs including bartending, construction, and "agitating" attack dogs to help train them.  He made his first feature film appearance in Coldfire in 1990, which is when he met his soon-to-be best friend Kamar de los Reyes (Antonio Vega/OLTL).  In 1991 he also appeared in the feature films The Art of Dying and The Killing Zone.

Michael’s first role in daytime television came when he portrayed Days of Our Lives’ Tanner Scofield from 1990 to 1992, and was chosen as one of People Magazine's “50 Most Beautiful People.”  Following his stint on Days, he appeared in the made-for-television movie Shadow of a Stranger.

Michael abruptly left acting in 1993, returning home to Los Angeles to care for his mother, Joan, who had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  The eventual loss of his mother in 1994 had a traumatic effect on the young actor.

Michael moved to the West Bank of Paris, France, where he lived for several months.  In an attempt to recover from his overwhelming loss, Michael called upon his significant writing talents as an avenue to express his emotions.  Those emotion-driven talents produced inspiring poetry which, coupled with the previous writings from Drift, became Michael’s first published volume of poetry entitled Eighteen Straight Whiskeys.  This highly-acclaimed book is indicative of Michael’s admiration of the poet Charles Bukowski, in that it realistically portrays struggles, independence, loss of love, and other subtle heroisms of America’s working class.  Dark and gritty at times (Michael himself has termed it “a dark ride”), it nonetheless celebrates a movement from the darkness toward light.  That assent from darkness is beautifully captured by the book’s cover photo, taken by Michael himself, of Kamar de los Reyes’ son Caylan.

Michael returned to acting in 1994, when he co-starred in VR5 and Dazzle, and had a guest starring role on Diagnosis Murder.

He also wrote, produced, directed and edited the award winning independent film Daedalus is Dead.  The film premiered at the British Short Film Festival in 1996 and was honored with the award for Best Dramatic Short Film at the Sea and Sky Festival in Canada.  

In 1995, Michael starred in The Door at the Tamarind Theater in Los Angeles.  Then in 1996, he portrayed identical twin brothers in Stephen J. Cannell's action adventure series TWO, Michael himself writing two of its episodes and directing the series finale.

In 1997, he starred in the Damon Wayan-produced series 413 Hope Street with Jesse Martin and Richard Roundtree.  When that series was cancelled in 1998, Michael was offered the part of Glenn, the nude model in Ally's sculpting class, on the series Ally McBeal.  The episode won an Emmy Award and Michael continued playing the role on both Ally McBeal and The Practice for three more episodes.  That same year he was cast in the role of Charlie in the television movie Murder at Devil's Glen.

In 1998, Michael landed the lead role of David Hume in the Toronto-based Showtime series Total Recall 2070, receiving a Gemini Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role.  It was there that he met his wife, Toronto native Ginevra Arabia, herself a graduate of York University with a long history in performing arts. 

The December 2000 issue of Playgirl Magazine ran a feature article about Michael entitled “Total Recall 2070’s Totally Hot Hunk.”  While the article contains some pretty personal information about him, Michael reports, “I never appeared in Playgirl.  If in the course of doing press for something they may have done an interview or ran a photo that’s fine but I don’t recall ever ‘doing’ the magazine.”

In 2000, Michael appeared in one episode of Bull, and also appeared in the popular miniseries The '70s.  He also completed his co-starring role in The Diamond Hunters, a made-for-TV drama which was filmed on the spectacularly-beautiful Emerald Coast of South Africa.  After completing his work on The Diamond Hunters, Michael and Ginevra spent a few months traveling through South Africa where Michael used the magnificence of that land and its people to further hone his skills as a shutter bug.

Then in 2001, he sold a new screenplay he had written to Neverland Films entitled Hunting Icarus.

Later in 2001, Michael returned to daytime television on ABC's Port Charles, portraying dual roles for the second time in his career – Fr. Michael Morley and the wildly popular vampire Caleb Morley.  The Daytime Emmy Awards nominated Michael in 2002 for the Special Fan Award of America's Favorite Villain for his portrayal of Caleb Morley.  Also in 2002 he guest starred on Mutant X, and also appeared in The Last Day of Atlantis before returning to Port Charles, where he remained until the show's cancellation in October of 2003.  In 2003, Soap Opera Digest acknowledged Michael’s portrayal of Caleb Morley with a nomination for Outstanding Younger Lead Actor.

Returning to New York City in 2003, Michael joined the cast of ABC’s long-running daytime drama One Life to Live.  Michael was given the choice of playing either the newly-created role of John McBain or the long-existing role of Todd Manning, which had been vacated months earlier by Roger Howarth.  Knowing that both the character of Todd Manning and its long-time portrayer Roger Howarth were extremely popular with the fans, Michael felt that he would not be able to live up to fans’ expectations in portraying Todd Manning, and chose to portray John McBain instead.

Michael won the Soap Opera Digest award for Favorite Love Triangle in 2005, sharing the award with the portrayers of his two on-screen paramours Melissa Archer and Renee Elise Goldsberry.

In 2006, Michael appeared on the big screen in the movie They’re Just My Friends.  Michael’s wife, Ginevra, also made a cameo appearance in the movie.  While the movie is no longer in theaters, we soon will be able to enjoy it in the comfort of our homes, as it will be made available on DVD.

A proud member of the Writer's Guild of America, Michael continues to write in his spare time.  His screenplay Monty, based on the life of Montgomery Clift, was sold to Newman Tooley Films in 1998, the same year Norman Lear's company, Act 111, hired him to write a film based on the life of jazz great Ella Fitzgerald (“Ella”).  Daedalus is Dead, Michael's award-winning short film - which he wrote, directed, and edited himself - was sold to the Sundance channel in 2000.

Upcoming projects include Michael's first graphic novel Soul Stealer, which will be released in June 2008.  He has also just signed on to co-write The Green Woman, a psychological horror graphic novel, along with famed novelist Peter Straub.  Michael opines, “I'm Irish and, as a Celt, poetry is in my blood.  I think there's something noble about it to balance out your life in the fake world of TV.”

Besides acting and writing, Michael also enjoys directing, photography, martial arts, gymnastics, and motorcycles, and is often called upon to do his own stunts on camera.

Michael’s photography may very well be the most unsung talent of this accomplished actor and author.  His contribution to One Life to Live’s CD, One Life, Many Voices, the proceeds of which support victims of Hurricane Katrina, was a booklet of portraits of those who contributed their talents to the fund-raising CD.  That short portfolio well illustrates Michael’s sensitivity to working with different contexts and photographic forms to capture subjects of the portraits in a way that suits each of them best.

Michael Easton and his wife Ginevra live in New York City with their dog, Boutros, and also own a home in Southern California, where he retreats for sun, surf and motorcycle during his rare opportunities to step out of the fray.