Michael Urie

Michael Urie most recently starred in Richard II off-Broadway in 2025. The Emmy award nominated actor, producer, director, and host is well-known for bringing stories to life onscreen, onstage, and behind the scenes. Most recently on Broadway, he starred as Prince Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress, a raucous musical adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino, alongside Sutton Foster, for which he earned a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for an Outer Critics Award.

Michael currently stars in the first two seasons of AppleTV+’s “Shrinking,” the award-winning dramedy series created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel and Brett Goldstein, alongside Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, and Christa Miller, for which he was nominated for a 2025 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and earned the 2025 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Well known for his groundbreaking role as Marc St. James on the ABC 2000’s dramedy TV series, “Ugly Betty,” Michael has also appeared on such hit shows as “Modern Family,” “The Good Wife” & “The Good Fight,” “Younger,” “Workaholics,” and “Hot in Cleveland,” among others.
For his work off-Broadway, Michael has won an Obie, two Drama Desks and two Lucille Lortel Awards. He most recently appeared off-Broadway as William Shakespeare in Talene Monahon’s Jane Anger and for over six hundred performances tended to Barbra Streisand’s basement mall in the hit solo comedy Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins. At the beginning of 2020, amidst the Covid pandemic, Michael put on a Livestream performance of the play from his living room, raising nearly $300,000 for Broadway Cares.
His other Broadway credits include: as Sir Robin in the revival of the Monty Python musical comedy Spamalot, reprising his role from the popular Kennedy Center production; Douglas Lyons’ Chicken & Biscuits; the Tony-nominated revival of Torch Song, the 35th-anniversary production of Harvey Fierstein's landmark play; Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons; and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying alongside Nick Jonas.
Outside of acting, he directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns and produced Happy Birthday Doug, both written and performed by Drew Droege and both captured for BroadwayHD. Michael also directed Silver Foxes written by Stan Zimmerman and James Berg, for Uptown Players in Dallas TX. Michael is the co-founder of “Pride Plays,” which celebrates and elevates LGBTQIA+ voices in the theater.