Michael Vartan is a French-American actor, best known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama Alias, his role on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, and his role on the E! drama The Arrangement as Terence Anderson. His film roles include The Pallbearer, Never Been Kissed, The Next Best Thing, One Hour Photo, Monster-in-Law, Rogue, and Colombiana. (Wikipedia)

Although born in France and raised primarily in Fleury, Manche, Normandy, Vartan has no recent French ancestry. His mother is a Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States and then France, while his father was a Bulgarian of Armenian and Bulgarian paternal ancestry and Hungarian Jewish maternal ancestry.