![]() ![]() He would work with Julia Louis-Dreyfus again in The New Adventures of Old Christine, playing a temperamental boyfriend of Louis-Dreyfus's character in a three-episode story arc. DeKay appeared in two episodes of Seinfeld: " The Soul Mate" and " The Bizarro Jerry", as Elaine's boyfriend, Kevin, who is seen as Jerry's exact opposite (and thus compared to Bizarro Superman from "the backwards bizarro world"). He co-starred as Dean Stewart in the gay-themed comedy/drama film Big Eden in 2000. DeKay was a cast member of Party of Five from 1997 to 1999, Carnivàle from 2003 to 2005, and Tell Me You Love Me in 2007. His first onscreen acting job was as corporation head Larry Deon on seaQuest 2032. It was included in several short film festivals, including Cannes Short Film Corner and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. In 2009, he was both director and producer of the short film This Monday. Career ĭeKay has performed in plays both on Broadway and off, including Ridiculous Fraud at the McCarter Theatre, Billy Budd at the Circle in the Square Theatre, Someone to Watch Over Me with the Denver Theatre Company, The Merchant of Venice on the Hartford Stage, and the national tour of The Lion in Winter. ![]() After taking a few courses in directing at Syracuse University, DeKay attended Rutgers University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree and met his wife, actress Elisa Taylor. However, he realized that he wanted to work in theater instead. ĭeKay planned for a career in business or law and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985. DeKay attended Le Moyne College to study business and philosophy, where he also played baseball, eventually deciding to pursue a career in theater. He enjoyed the arts and performed in his high school's production of Oliver!. Growing up, DeKay enjoyed athletics, having played both varsity basketball and baseball, the latter of which is a generational tradition in his family. Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963, to Jim DeKay and Jill Vaughn in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. He starred in the USA Network series White Collar (2009–2014) Early life "So, it felt groundbreaking, and then, unsurprisingly, completely energizing despite the real pain and anguish that these characters sort of withstand and experience-and within that, the joy that the characters find.Timothy Robert DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor. "And being able to play characters that otherwise I hadn't really seen before," he continued. Working on Fellow Travelers was, for Jonathan, a "nourishing" project to dive into, the 35-year-old remarking on how it was "just thrilling to have an opportunity to really understand the queer experience in that way, through research." But to have that and all of that experience in one job was just kind of once or twice in a career if you're lucky-especially when you get this cast and the creatives we had." "It was just all the things that you hope for as an actor, that sometimes you get a little bit piecemeal. "It's just so rare that you get to work on something that's educates you, and also provide you with such an extraordinary challenge as an actor," the White Collar actor explained. And of course, when you're faced with this extraordinary task of telling these two characters' love story, that's so sort of complicated and nuanced, we just agreed that we'd support each other." But at the time, it was just a really nice get to know you. "We sat down, and it felt a sort of biblical moment actually, looking back. "It was literally the first time we had met in person we had had a chemistry test on Zoom," Jonathan recalled. The show follows the two across the decades, beginning in 1950s Washington D.C., at the height of McCarthyism and ending during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. ![]() Indeed, it did feel like a stroke of fate for the two actors as they embarked on a journey to tell the love story of Hawk and Tim-political staffers in the Showtime limited series. "It all started on Cumberland Avenue," Jonathan began to E! News in an exclusive interview, with Matt chiming in to finish, "At Goldstruck Coffee in Toronto."Īnd as the Bridgerton actor quipped back, "We struck gold, with our Cumberland." And much like their characters Hawk and Tim, the two actors first met IRL over a glass-though they swapped in coffee. It's a story that gives whole new meaning to the phrase, "Got milk?"Īfter all, all it took was a glass of the dairy beverage to forever alter the lives of Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey's characters in their new show Fellow Travelers. ![]()
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