Michael Seater

Michael Seater is a Canadian performer who acts, writes, directs, and produces, and he started out as a child actor in Toronto, where he grew up and attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts. He began working in the late 1990s in short films, direct-to-video releases, and made-for-television movies before voicing the lead in the series Mattimeo: A Tale of Redwall. He played Lucas Randall in Strange Days at Blake Holsey High from 2002 to 2006 and took a part in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005). Wider recognition came as Derek Venturi on Life with Derek, the Canadian family sitcom he headlined from 2005 to 2009 across 70 episodes and four seasons. Later television work includes the CBC series 18 to Life, the recurring role of James Gillies in the series Murdoch Mysteries from 2009 to 2017, and Bomb Girls. He wrote and directed People Hold On (2015) and Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016).