| Luke Macfarlane | |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Luke Macfarlane |
| Birth Date: | 19 January 1980 |
| Birth Place: | London, Ontario, Canada |
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| Education: | Juilliard School (BFA) |
| Years Active: | 2003–present |
| Partner: | Hig Roberts (2020–present) |
| Children: | 1 |
Thomas Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980) is a Canadian actor and former singer. He is known for playing Scotty Wandell on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis on the Space television science fiction series Killjoys (2015–2019), the romantic lead in a number of Hallmark Channel movies, and Aaron in Bros.
Thomas Luke Macfarlane was born on January 19, 1980,[1] in London, Ontario. His father Thomas was the director of student health services at the University of Western Ontario, and his mother Penny is a mental health nurse at a London hospital. Macfarlane attended London Central Secondary School with twin sister, Ruth, and older sister Rebecca. Macfarlane went to school at the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, then later studied drama at Juilliard in New York City.[2]
Macfarlane had an early role playing opposite Cynthia Nixon in Robert Altman's miniseries Tanner on Tanner[3] on the Sundance Channel. He subsequently had leading roles on the 2005 FX series Over There (playing PV2 Frank "Dim" Dumphy) and in the 2009 two-part miniseries titled Iron Road.[4]
His first notable role was as Scotty Wandell on ABC's Brothers & Sisters, husband to Kevin Walker (played by Matthew Rhys), one of the "brothers" of the show.[5] Macfarlane's other notable television roles include Jason Howell in the Canadian sitcom Satisfaction,[6] Rick Lincoln on NBC's The Night Shift,[7] [8] Chaplain Hopkins on PBS's Mercy Street[9] and the starring role of D'avin Jaqobis in Syfy's Killjoys.[10] [11]
Macfarlane has also starred in TV movies, such as Hallmark Channel's The Memory Book,[12] Christmas Land, Maggie's Miracle Christmas, The Birthday Wish, and The Mistletoe Promise (2016).
He co-starred in a major film release, Bros, with Billy Eichner in 2022, which was noted for the principal cast being all LGBTQ+, even for heterosexual and cis-gender characters.[13] [14]
Macfarlane was one of the four leads in Juvenilia at the Playwrights Horizons Theater from November 14–December 21, 2003.[15] He played the lead role in the American premiere of the play Where Do We Live, staged at the Vineyard Theatre in May 2004.[16] The production was cited by the 2005 GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway and Off-Broadway. He also appeared with Jill Clayburgh and Hamish Linklater in the off-Broadway production of The Busy World is Hushed, again at Playwrights Horizons, in Summer 2006.[17] He reprised his role of Thomas for the L.A. Premiere at the Skirball Cultural Center from February 7–11 of 2007.
Macfarlane was part of the one-night celebrity performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff. The musical was re-imagined by Howard's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series, directed by actor Michael Urie. Luke starred in the show alongside Eden Espinosa, Vicki Lewis, Fred Willard and David Blue.
Macfarlane starred in the world premiere of stage drama Reverberation in February 2015 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut.[18]
Macfarlane was the lead singer and a songwriter for the band Fellow Nameless,[19] which began in his 8th grade along with some of his classmates at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts under the name of Slipnaught, a name they randomly chose from a dictionary because they did not have a name for the band when it came time to perform on stage. Fellow Nameless came from Slipnaught mainly because the band members hated the original name, and so, Fellow Nameless was born at London Central Secondary School. Fellow Nameless has produced one underground album, which was a half-studio, half-live CD album, and they recorded an additional ten songs that never got put out including three songs that were recorded for a development deal with Maverick Records. They played a showcase for Danny Strick A&R of Maverick Records and in the end got passed over. The once thought of as defunct London, Ontario based band, Fellow Nameless, later had two incarnations without Macfarlane as lead singer. The first incarnation came in the second quarter of 2004 with the creation of Van A Primer and a new singer, Matthew Pearn. Their most recent incarnation, as of March, 2006, has three of the remaining band members under the new band name of Cancel Winter.
Macfarlane came out as gay during an interview with The Globe and Mail on April 15, 2008.[20] [21] On June 12, 2018, Macfarlane was naturalized as an American citizen.[22]
Macfarlane plays the cello,[23] and this skill was used in the Hallmark movie Chateau Christmas. He also plays the trumpet.[24]
On June 4, 2023, Macfarlane and his partner, alpine skier Hig Roberts, welcomed their first child together.[25]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Kinsey | Bruce Kinsey | |
| 2006 | Recalled | Lieutenant Sefton | Short film |
| Trapped Ashes | Vincent | Segment: "My Twin, The Worm" | |
| 2013 | Erection | Dean | Short film |
| 2017 | Rock, Paper, Scissors | Peter Harris | |
| 2021 | Single All the Way | James | |
| 2022 | Bros | Aaron Shepard | |
| TBA | Lone Star Bull | Bull Jackson | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner | Stuart DeBarge | TV miniseries | |
| 2005 | Over There | PV2 Frank "Dim" Dumphy | Main role; 13 episodes | |
| 2006–2011 | Brothers & Sisters | Scott "Scotty" Wandell | Recurring role (seasons 1–2); main role (seasons 3–5); 81 episodes | |
| 2009 | Iron Road | James Nichol | TV miniseries | |
| 2012 | Beauty & the Beast | Phillippe Bertrand | Episode: "Proceed with Caution" | |
| 2013 | Person of Interest | Agent Alan Fahey | Episode: "Proteus" | |
| Smash | Patrick Dillon | Episodes: "The Tonys", "The Nominations" | ||
| Satisfaction | Jason Howell | Main role; 13 episodes | ||
| 2014–2017 | data-sort-value="Night Shift, The" | The Night Shift | Rick Lincoln | Recurring role; 8 episodes |
| 2014 | data-sort-value="Memory Book, The" | The Memory Book | Gabe Sinclair | Television movie (Hallmark) |
| 2015 | Supergirl | Agent Donovan | Episodes: "Red Faced", "Human for a Day" | |
| 2015–2019 | Killjoys | RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis | Main role, 5 seasons | |
| 2015 | Christmas Land | Tucker Barnes | Television movie (Hallmark) | |
| 2016–2017 | Mercy Street | Chaplain Hopkins | Main role | |
| 2016 | data-sort-value="Mistletoe Promise, The" | The Mistletoe Promise | Nicholas Derr | Television movie (Hallmark) |
| 2017 | data-sort-value="Birthday Wish, The" | The Birthday Wish | David McKinely | Television movie (Hallmark) |
| Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle | Casey Cummins | Television movie (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) | ||
| 2018 | data-sort-value="Shoe Addict's Christmas, A" | A Shoe Addict's Christmas | Jake Marsden | Television movie (Hallmark) |
| 2019 | Just Add Romance | Jason Tucker | Television movie (Hallmark) | |
| Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen | Edward Ferris | Television movie (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) | ||
| 2020 | data-sort-value="Valentine's Match, A" | A Valentine's Match | Zach Williams | Television movie (Hallmark) |
| Chateau Christmas | Jackson Lewis | Television movie (Hallmark) | ||
| 2021 | Taking a Shot at Love | Ryan Cooper | Television movie (Hallmark) | |
| Christmas in My Heart | Sean Grant | Television movie (Hallmark) | ||
| 2022 | Moriah's Lighthouse | Ben McCain | Television movie (Hallmark) | |
| data-sort-value="Magical Christmas Village, A" | A Magical Christmas Village | Ryan Scott | Television movie (Hallmark) | |
| 2023-present | Platonic | Charlie | Main role | |
| 2023 | Notes of Autumn | Leo | Television film (Hallmark) | |
| Amish Stud: The Eli Weaver Story | Eli | Television film (Lifetime) | ||
| Catch Me If You Claus | Chris | Television film (Hallmark) | ||
| 2024 | Invincible | Rick Sheridan (voice) | Season 2 [26] | |
| Hacks | Brad | Episode: "Better Late" |
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Juvenilia | Brondie Chase | |
| 2004 | Where Do We Live? | Stephen | |
| In The Wings (Stage Reading) | Nicky Sanchez | ||
| 2006 | Thomas | ||
| 2007 | Thomas | ||
| 2008 | Dreamstuff (Stage Reading) | ||
| 2009 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 2010 | Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir | Sam Bendrix | |
| Some Men | |||
| 2011 | Craig Donner/Grady | ||
| Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir | Sam Bendrix | ||
| 2012 | Felix Turner | ||
| 8 (Stage Reading) | Jeff Zarrillo | ||
| Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir | Sam Bendrix | ||
| 2015 | Reverberation | Jonathan | |
| 2016 | Running on Fire | ||
| 2017 | Big Night | Austin |