![]() ![]() In 2018 he starred in revival of the Mart Crowley play The Boys in the Band on Broadway playing Donald he reprised his role for the 2020 film of the same name. On stage, Bomer starred in the Dustin Lance Black play 8 on Broadway, and at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as Jeff Zarrillo, a plaintiff in the federal case that overturned California's Proposition 8. He portrays Larry Trainor in the DC Universe series Doom Patrol, which premiered in 2019. In 2017 he received praise for his performances in the drama films Walking Out, Anything, and the 2018 comedy-drama Papi Chulo. ![]() He was later upgraded to the main cast during the fifth season. Bomer made a guest appearance on the fourth season of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story. In 2015, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for playing a closeted writer of The New York Times in the drama television film The Normal Heart about the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City. He has featured in supporting roles in the 2011 science fiction thriller In Time, the 2012 comedy-drama Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, the 2014 supernatural-drama Winter's Tale, and the 2016 neo-noir film The Nice Guys. 2009 saw Bomer then land the lead role of con-artist and thief Neal Caffrey in the USA Network series White Collar with the series lasting to 2014. In 2005, Bomer made his film debut in the mystery- thriller Flightplan, then in 2007 gained recognition with his recurring role in the NBC television series Chuck. Soon after, he had a contract role on Guiding Light, as well as appearing on primetime shows, including Tru Calling. Bomer graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 2000, he made his television debut on the long-running soap opera All My Children. He is the recipient of accolades such as a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. “Or if I had, I hadn’t seen actors like me and Matt play those roles.Matthew Staton Bomer (born October 11, 1977) is an American actor. “My answer was always, ‘Well, I’d love to do a sweeping gay love story,’ but my experience actually was that I’d never really seen them,” he said. If Bailey can successfully pull off chemistry while playing a straight character on Bridgerton, we can only imagine how sexy it will be when he and Bomer are on screen together.īailey told Vanity Fair in an interview that he's been waiting for a chance at a role like this. Even though you try to avoid them, they usually show up somewhere."Įven though the teaser trailer only gives you quick flashes of scenes from the show, the sexual chemistry between the two leads is still radiating off of the screen. So you live with the choices that you make. It's very bad and we might not see them for 30 years, and they alter our lives in different ways. "It's about the choices that we make having ramifications that we don't see. We're putting the different time frames against each other," executive producer Ron Nyswaner ( Philadelphia, Homeland) said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. The lovers sexual relationship begins against the backdrop of Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” which led to a dark period for the queer community in America.įellow Travelers is both a love story and a political thriller that will focus on the relationship between Bomer and Bailey (both of whom are gay in real life) as it moves back and forth in time through the Lavender Scare of the ‘50s, Vietnam War protests in the ‘60s, the drug-fueled ‘70s disco era, and finally the AIDS crisis of the ‘80s. ![]() That all changes when he meets Bailey’s character Tim Laughlin, who is a religious and idealistic young man. ![]() and begin an epic - and steamy! - love story.īomer (Doom Patrol, Magic Mike) plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who works behind the scenes in politics and tries to avoid emotional entanglements. Today the first teaser trailer dropped for the new Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey limited series Fellow Travelers about two men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington D.C. Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer in 'Fellow Travelers' ![]()
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