Early life and education

Paige was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Boston University School of Theatre with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree summa cum laude.

Career

Best known for his role as Emmett Honeycutt on Showtime's hit series Queer as Folk, Paige's other television credits include Will & Grace, Time of Your Life, Girlfriends, Caroline in the City, American Dad!, Related, Grey's Anatomy, The Closer and Without a Trace. His first audition in Los Angeles earned him a guest-starring role on Suddenly Susan.

Paige spent summer 2004 starring in his feature directorial debut, Say Uncle, alongside Kathy Najimy, Anthony Clark, Melanie Lynskey, Lisa Edelstein and Gabrielle Union. Other film credits include Don McKellar's Childstar with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Dave Foley, Showtime's Our America (which debuted at Sundance in 2002), indie Pop and the award-winning shorts The Four of Us and The Shooting.

An accomplished stage actor, Paige has appeared at major regional theatres throughout the country, most notably in world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, and Playwrights Horizons. He has performed nearly every genre of play, from the Greeks to Shakespeare to contemporary American work. Plays on his resume include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Rivals, Secret Agents, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Pantophobia, his two-man show written and performed with Abraham Higginbotham.

On February 6, 2013, it was announced that The Fosters, a show that Paige created along with Bradley Bredeweg, and produced by Jennifer Lopez and through production company, Nuyorican Productions was picked up by the ABC Family. The series follows the lives of the Foster family, an interracial lesbian couple who are married and raising biological and adoptive children together. The series began airing on June 3, 2013.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1998	The Shooting
1999	Pop	Nick
	The Joyriders	Family Restaurant Waiter
2001	The Four of Us	Scott
2004	Childstar	Tim
2005	Say Uncle	Paul Johnson
2007	Ping Pong Playa	Gerald
2008	Leaving Barstow	The DJ
2011	Repeat After Me
	Sex Crime Panic
2013	Copacabana	Miranda
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Nowhere Man	Recruit #4	Episode: "Heart of Darkness"
1997	Suddenly Susan	Neil Pomerantz	Episode: "Next Stop, Heaven"
1998	Caroline in the City	Robert	Episode: "Caroline and the Paper Chase"
1999	Undressed	Kirk	5 episodes
	Will & Grace	Roger O'Neil	Episode: "Whose Mom Is It Anyway?"
2000	Movie Stars	Nick	Episode: "He's Reese. He's Here. Get Used to It."
	Time of Your Life	Assistant	Episode: "The Time They Cheated"
2002	Our America	Gary Covino	TV movie
	Girlfriends	Zellner	Episode: "Star Craving Mad"
2000-2005	Queer as Folk	Emmett Honeycutt	83 episodes
2005-2006	Related	Patrick	4 episodes
2006	Grey's Anatomy	Benjamin O'Leary	Episode: "I Am a Tree"
2007	Without a Trace	Lucas Blumenthal	Episode: "Primed"
2007-2009	Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World	Steve	14 episodes
2009	CSI: Miami	Glenn Wagner	Episode: "Divorce Party"
	Raising the Bar	Sean Graydon	Episode: "The Curious Case of Kellerman's Button"
2006-2009	American Dad!	Jason	Voice - 3 episodes
2010	The Closer	Ricky	Episode: "Old Money"
2011	Bones	Darren Hargrove	Episode: "The Bikini in the Soup"
2013	The Fosters		Creator - writer - executive producer
2015	Tut		Writer

Stage

Off Broadway (partial credits)

• High Concepts (with Robert Sean Leonard) --- Malaparte --- John Ruocco
• Somebody --- Playwrights Horizon --- Yana Landowne
• Eastern Standard --- Equator --- Easley
• Landscape Of The Body --- Judith Anderson --- Lisa Goldsmith
• Tartuffe --- Biggs/Rosatti --- Alison Laslett

Regional

• The History Boys --- The Ahmanson Theatre --- Tom Irwin
• Eden Lane (World Premiere) --- La Jolla Playhouse --- Des McAnuff
• A Midsummer Night's Dream --- Portland Center Stage --- Elizabeth Huddle
• Pantophobia --- HBO Workspace --- Luke Yankee
• Twisted --- The Lex --- Jesse Carmichael
• The Rivals --- Portland Center Stage --- Elizabeth Huddle
• Blue Window --- Edinburgh Theatre Festival --- Richard Seer/Eve Muson
• Secret Agents (Premiere) --- Artemis Productions --- Beth Harper
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown --- Charles Playhouse --- John Ruocco
• Twelfth Night --- Huntington Theatre --- Robert Morgan

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