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Matthew Staton "Matt" Bomer (born October 11, 1977) is an American actor. He made his television debut with Guiding Light in 2001, and gained recognition with his recurring role in the NBC television series Chuck as Bryce Larkin. He played the lead role of a con-artist in the USA Network series White Collar from 2009 to 2014. Bomer won a Golden Globe Award and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role as Felix Turner in the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014).
Bomer featured in supporting roles in such films as the 2005 thriller Flightplan, the 2011 science fiction thriller In Time, the 2012 comedy-drama Magic Mike and the 2014 supernatural-drama Winter's Tale. He starred in the Dustin Lance Black play 8 on Broadway and at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre as Jeff Zarrillo, a plaintiff in the federal case that overturned California's Proposition 8. Bomer is married to the publicist Simon Halls with whom he has three children.
Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, one of three children born to Elizabeth Macy (née Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. He grew up in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where he attended Klein High School; a classmate was future actor Lee Pace. Pace and Bomer both acted at Houston's Alley Theatre, a non-profit theatre company. In 2001, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Willie Garson (born William Garson Paszamant; February 20, 1964) is an American character actor. He has appeared in over fifty movies, usually playing minor roles. He is known for playing Stanford Blatch on the HBO series Sex and the City and in the related films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2, and for his role since 2009 as Mozzie, in the USA Network series White Collar.
Garson was born in Highland Park, New Jersey. Garson attended Camp Wekeela in Hartford, Maine as a child for 11 years. He received a theater degree from Wesleyan University and also attended Yale Drama School.
Garson had a recurring role as Henry Coffield on NYPD Blue and as Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City. His other television appearances include Mr. Belvedere, My Two Dads, Coach ("The Loss Weekend" episode as a clerk), Quantum Leap (once as a newspaper salesman/hack writer, and once as Lee Harvey Oswald), Monk, Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World (playing four different characters in the latter two shows' universe), Ally McBeal, Party of Five, Star Trek: Voyager (in the episode Thirty Days), Special Unit 2, Just Shoot Me!, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, The X-Files (twice and as two different characters), Cheers (as a waiter in the episode Cape Cad), Yes, Dear, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Pushing Daisies, Stargate SG-1 (3 episodes), Wizards of Waverly Place, CSI: Miami, Mental, Spin City, and Taken. He co-starred in the 2007 HBO series John from Cincinnati. Since 2009, he has portrayed Mozzie in the USA Network series White Collar.
White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multitalented con artist working as Burke's criminal informant. Willie Garson and Tiffani Thiessen also star. The show premiered on October 23, 2009, and has aired six complete seasons, with the final season concluding on December 18, 2014.
Neal Caffrey, a con artist, forger, and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left in serving a four-year sentence, he escapes to look for his girlfriend Kate. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, finds and returns him to prison. This time, Caffrey proposes a deal with the FBI, as part of a work-release program. After some hesitation, Burke agrees. They begin an unconventional arrangement in which Caffrey helps Burke apprehend dangerous white collar criminals.
Timothy Robert "Tim" DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor, director and producer. His first on screen acting job was as corporation head Larry Deon on seaQuest 2032. He was a cast member of Party of Five from 1997–1999, Carnivàle from 2003–05 and Tell Me You Love Me in 2007. He has also guest-starred on a number of top-rated television series, including Seinfeld, Friends, CSI, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Scrubs, and Chuck. DeKay starred in the USA Network series White Collar, which chronicled the partnership between a con artist (played by Matt Bomer) and an FBI agent (DeKay).
Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963 to Jim and Jill DeKay in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. Growing up DeKay enjoyed athletics, and he played both varsity basketball and baseball, the latter of which is a generational tradition in his family. He also enjoyed the arts, and performed in his high school's production of Oliver!. He attended Le Moyne College to study Business and Philosophy, where he also played baseball, eventually deciding to pursue a career in theater. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985, he planned for a career in business or law, but eventually realized that the theater was his true calling. After taking a few courses in directing at Syracuse University, he attended Rutgers University, where he received an Master of Fine Arts and met his wife, actress Elisa Taylor. The couple lives in California with their two children, daughter Danna and son Jamis.
Why can?t you feel this?
Why can?t you understand I feel this?
This is nothing
I can see my reflection in your cheek bone
We?ve been playing out this script in your mind
Here we go with a fresh perspective
You?ll paint the walls with your stone face tactics
And we?ll walk around
Eyes on the crowd
And don?t you think about tomorrow
You shut me out
I just don?t want to fake it anymore
I?m burning out
Your motion's empty and you?ve hit the floor
You shut me out
The sweet relief of saying, you shield your heart from breaking
Get up, get out now
Get up, get out
In the glow of the moonlit serenade
Unleash the knowledge of the white collar escapade
Speak the words that unlock the truth
And you?ll paint the walls, and you?ll paint the walls
We?ll walk around
Eyes on the crowd
And don?t you think about tomorrow
You shut me out
I just don?t want to fake it anymore
I?m burning out
Your motion's empty and you?ve hit the floor
You shut me out
The sweet relief of saying, you shield your heart from breaking
Get up, get out now
Get up, get out
Why can?t you feel this?
Can?t you understand I feel this?
We?ll walk around
Eyes on the crowd
And don?t you think about tomorrow
Don?t you think about tomorrow
You shut me out
I just don?t want to fake it anymore
I?m burning out
Your motion's empty and you?ve hit the floor
You shut me out
The sweet relief of saying, you shield your heart from breaking
Get up, get out now
Get up, get out
You watched me follow fools to the sea
Tie the stones that bring me down below the tide
You watched me follow fools to the sea
Tie the stones that bring me down and down and down and down
And down and down and down and down and down
You shut me out
I just can?t live like this anymore
I?m burning out
It doesn?t feel like it once did before
You shut me out
The sweet relief of saying, you shield your heart from breaking
Get up, get out now