Early life

Weatherly was born in New York City and reared in Fairfield, Connecticut, by parents Patricia O'Hara (née Hetherington) and Michael Manning Weatherly, Sr. Weatherly is of partly Irish descent.

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

Weatherly plays several instruments, including piano and guitar. He has contributed two songs to the NCIS soundtracks, "Bitter and Blue" and "Under the Sun", and played in a band while pursuing his early career in New York City. Another early project was a video shot for a Karaoke CD: A Taste Of Honey's version of "Sukiyaki".

Career

Weatherly began his acting career with a minor television role on The Cosby Show as Theo Huxtable's roommate. He was later cast in the role of Cooper Alden on Loving and later, The City. He appeared in the role from 1992 until 1996.

Weatherly later moved to Los Angeles, soon landing a role as a series regular on the FOX television series Significant Others, with Jennifer Garner. The show only lasted 6 episodes. He then met director Whit Stillman, who cast him in the 1998 film The Last Days of Disco as Hap opposite Chloë Sevigny. Weatherly also appeared as a conflicted Warlock in the series Charmed during its first season in 1998.

His movie credits include Meet Wally Sparks with Rodney Dangerfield, Gun Shy with Liam Neeson, Cabin by the Lake, and the independent film Trigger Happy opposite Rosario Dawson.

Michael Weatherly starred in Dark Angel for the two seasons it was on the air. This role earned him three award nominations, two Saturn Awards for Best supporting actor on Television in 2001 and 2002, and one Teen Choice award for choice actor in 2001.

In 2003, he appeared as Senior NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo in two episodes of the CBS series JAG, a role he continued to portray in the spin-off series NCIS; making subsequent guest appearances on both NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2015). Together with Pauley Perrette who plays Abby Sciuto, he is one of only two actors who have appeared in all 4 shows (JAG, NCIS, NCIS: LA, NCIS: NO). In 2004, he starred in the television film The Mystery of Natalie Wood, portraying Robert Wagner. Since 2010, Robert Wagner has made eight guest appearances on NCIS as Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., the father of Michael's character, Tony DiNozzo.

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

Weatherly made his directing debut with the Season 8 episode of NCIS titled "One Last Score", which aired March 1, 2011 and also directed the NCIS Season 10 episode "Seek" which aired March 19, 2013.

He portrayed Jesus Christ in a YouTube video which also featured comedian Sarah Silverman and was sponsored by a pro-choice organization.

In January 2016, CBS announced that Weatherly will be leaving NCIS after 13 seasons of starring as main character Anthony DiNozzo on the show.

Personal life

Weatherly married his Loving/The City co-star Amelia Heinle in February 1995. Heinle has one son, August, with Weatherly. The couple divorced in 1997.

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

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

Weatherly is the uncle of actress Alexandra Breckenridge.

In November 2015, Weatherly was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over for speeding and spent fifteen hours in jail.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Meet Wally Sparks	Dean Sparks
1998	The Last Days of Disco	Hap
2000	Gun Shy	Dave Juniper
	The Specials	Verdict, Crusader Industries
2001	Venus and Mars	Cody Battle Vandermeer
	Trigger Happy	Bill
2005	Her Minor Thing	Tom Lindeman
2010	Charlie Valentine	Danny Valentine

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	The Cosby Show	Theo's Roommate	Episode: "Theo's Final Final"
1992-95	Loving	Cooper Alden
1995-96	The City	Cooper Alden
1996	Pier 66	Decker Monroe	TV-Movie/TV-Pilot
1997	Asteroid	Dr. Matthew Rogers	NBC TV-Movie
	Spy Game	James Cash	Episode: "What Family Doesn't Have its Ups and Downs?"
1998	The Advanced Guard	Kevin, Captive	Sci Fi Channel TV-Movie
	Significant Others	Ben Chasen	6 episodes
	Jesse	Roy	6 episodes
1999	Charmed	Brendan Rowe	Episode: "When Bad Warlocks Turn Good"
	The Crow: Stairway to Heaven	James Horton	Episode: "A Gathering Storm"
	Winding Roads	Mick Simons	TV-Movie
2000	Cabin by the Lake	Boone	USA Network TV-Movie
	Grapevine	Jack Vallone	Episode: "Jack"
	Ally McBeal	Wayne Keeble	Episode: "Sex, Lies and Second Thoughts"
2000-02	Dark Angel	Logan Cale	42 episodes
2003	JAG	Senior NCIS Special Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo	Episodes: "Ice Queen", "Meltdown"
2003-16	NCIS		Starring Role 306 episodes
2004	The Mystery of Natalie Wood	Robert Wagner	ABC TV-Movie
2012	Major Crimes	Thorn	Guest Star
2014	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	2 episodes
	Whose Line is it Anyway?		Guest Star
	NCIS: New Orleans	Senior NCIS Special Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo	Episode: "Carrier"
2015	NCIS: Los Angeles		Episode: "Blame It on Rio"
2016	Bull	Jason Bull	Filming

Awards and nominations

Saturn Awards

• 2001: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series" - Dark Angel
• 2002: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series" - Dark Angel

Soap Opera Digest Awards

• 1994: Nominated, "Hottest Male Star" - Loving
• 1995: Nominated, "Outstanding Younger Lead Actor" - Loving

Teen Choice Awards

• 2001: Nominated, "Choice TV Actor" - Dark Angel

[ Source: Wikipedia ]