Michael Weatherly

At 56 years old, Michael Weatherly has this physical status:

Michael Manning Weatherly Jr. (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor, producer, and director known for playing the role of Anthony DiNozzo on the television series, NCIS (2003–2016) and earlier played Logan Cale in the drama Dark Angel (2000-2002).

In 2016, he began the title role of Dr.

Jason Bull in Bull, a courtroom drama.

Early life

Weatherly was born in New York and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut. His parents are Patricia (née Hetherington) and Michael Weatherly. Weatherly is of Irish descent.

Weatherly attended Fairfield Country Day School and graduated from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. He attended Boston University, Menlo College, American University, and The American University of Paris but left college to pursue acting.

Personal life

Weatherly married his Loving/The City co-star Amelia Heinle in February 1995. Their son, August, was born in 1996. They divorced in 1997.

During filming of Dark Angel in January 2000, Weatherly began a relationship with co-star Jessica Alba, leading to their engagement in 2001. The relationship ended in August 2003.

Weatherly married Serbian internist Dr. Bojana Janković on September 30, 2009. The couple live in Manhattan with their two children, a daughter, Olivia, and a son, Liam.

Weatherly is the uncle of actress Alexandra Breckenridge.

In January 2018, CBS settled for $9.5 million with actress Eliza Dushku after she was fired from a recurring role on Bull after informing producers of Weatherly's inappropriate behavior on the set. According to documents from the official mediation, Weatherly was recorded on video making comments about spanking Dushku over his knee, soliciting a threesome, alluding to sexual assault in his "rape van," and other inappropriate remarks. After Dushku spoke with producers, Weatherly texted CBS Television Studios' president David Stapf saying he wanted to talk about Dushku's sense of humor, though Stapf pushed back saying "Ms. Dushku made the show better." Days later, showrunner Glenn Caron terminated her expected role on the show despite opposition from studio executives.

In November 2021 Dushku testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee about her sexual harassment accusations during her time on Bull. She said in her testimony: "In 2017, I was aggressively pursued by CBS to become a co-lead in a show called 'Bull.' I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady — a competent, high-powered lawyer meant to counter balance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind. However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star." Dushku added that Weatherly called her "legs" and talked about his sperm.

In December 2018 when the settlement was reported, Weatherly publicly apologized for the comments, saying "When Eliza told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized." Dushku responded that Weatherly broke the terms of their settlement by speaking to the press and characterized his apology as "more deflection, denial, and spin." Pauley Perrette and Sasha Alexander, Weatherly's co-stars from NCIS, tweeted in support of him following the accusations. In August 2019, it was reported that both Weatherly and Caron were undergoing leadership training following the settlement.

Weatherly and his wife are involved with nonprofit organizations such as the Tryall Fund, which focuses on improving education and public health in Hanover Parish, Jamaica. They are also involved with Environmental Working Group, an organization focused on environmental consciousness, and Healthy Child Healthy World, a children's health initiative.

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Career

Weatherly began his acting career as Theo Huxtable's roommate on The Cosby Show. He appeared in Loving and later, The City, from 1992 to 1996.

Weatherly migrated to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Garner would shortly appear on the FOX television series Significant Others as a series regular, but the series only lasted six episodes. He then met director Whit Stillman, who starred him in the 1998 film The Last Days of Disco as Hap, opposite Chlo Sevigny. During the first season of Charmed, Weatherly appeared as a bitter warlock.

Meet Wally Sparks (1997) with Rodney Dangerfield, Gun Shy (2000) with Liam Neeson, Cabin by the Lake (2000), and the independent film Trigger Happy opposite Rosario Dawson are among his film credits.

Weatherly appeared in Dark Angel for the two seasons it was on television. In 2001 and 2002, he received three award nominations, two Saturn Awards for best supporting actor on television, and one Teen Choice Award for best supporting actor in 2001.

Anthony DiNozzo, the CBS series JAG's senior NCIS Special Agent, appeared in two episodes of the CBS series JAG in 2003, a part he continued to play in the spin-off series NCIS. He made subsequent guest appearances on both NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2015). He was one of only two actors to appear in all four shows (JAG, NCIS, NCIS, Los Angeles, NCIS: NO). He appeared in The Mystery of Natalie Wood, a television film starring Robert Wagner in 2004. Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., the father of Weatherly's character, had made twelve guest appearances on NCIS since 2010.

On May 6, 2007, he was a guest presenter at the Australian Logie Awards of 2007. He appeared on Rove Live.

Weatherly made his directorial debut with "One Last Score," a season-eight episode of NCIS, on March 1, 2011, and also produced the NCIS season-10 episode "Seek" which aired on March 19, 2013.

He portrayed Jesus Christ in a YouTube video that also featured comedian Sarah Silverman and was sponsored by a pro-choice group. Weatherly took part in the #Tapped campaign in 2015 by posting a video of him dancing in order to raise funds for Broadway Cares/Eights AIDS.

Weatherly will leave NCIS after 13 seasons of playing main character Anthony DiNozzo, according to CBS in January 2016. Dr. Phil McGraw's real-life trial consulting firm also announced at the same time that he would appear in a new series called Bull in fall 2016.

Weatherly appeared at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2016, as well as the 40th People's Choice Awards in 2014. He has appeared on numerous talk shows, including The Rachel Ray Show, CBS This Morning, Live with Kelly and Ryan, the Today Show, the Late Show, and The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Weatherly has produced numerous short films and TV episodes from the series NCIS and Bull. He produced the 2017 documentary Jamaica Man, about British expatriate Nigel Pemberton's life, which premiered at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. At the 2017 Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, a Jamaica man was named "Best Documentary Portrait" and "Best Documentary" at the NYC Independent Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 2018 Tiburon International Film Festival and TMFF festival.

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