# Michael Weatherly

Michael Weatherly Jr. (born July 8, 1968) is an American television actor, producer, director, and musician, known for playing the roles of Logan Cale in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), special agent Anthony DiNozzo in NCIS (2003–2016, 2024), and Dr. Jason Bull in Bull (2016–2022).

## Early life

Weatherly was born in New York City and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut. His parents are Patricia (née Hetherington) and Michael Weatherly Sr. He is of Irish descent.
Weatherly attended Fairfield Country Day School and graduated from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1986. He attended Boston University, Menlo College, American University, and the American University of Paris, but left college to pursue acting.

## Career

Weatherly began his acting career with a minor television role on The Cosby Show as Theo Huxtable's roommate. He played the role of Cooper Alden in Loving and later, The City, appearing in the role from 1992 until 1996.
Weatherly moved to Los Angeles, soon landing a role as a series regular on the FOX television series Significant Others with Jennifer Garner, though the show only lasted six 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 (1997) with Rodney Dangerfield, Gun Shy (2000) with Liam Neeson, Cabin by the Lake (2000) with Judd Nelson, and the independent film Trigger Happy opposite Rosario Dawson.
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. He made subsequent guest appearances on both NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2015). Together with Pauley Perrette, who played Abby Sciuto, he is one of only two actors who have appeared in all four 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 had made 12 guest appearances on NCIS as Anthony DiNozzo Sr., the father of Weatherly's character.
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-eight 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 that also featured comedian Sarah Silverman and was sponsored by a pro-choice organization. In 2015, Weatherly participated in the #Tapped challenge by posting a video of himself dancing to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
CBS announced in January 2016 that Weatherly would be leaving NCIS after 13 seasons of starring as main character Anthony DiNozzo. At the same time, the network announced he would star in a new series called Bull in fall 2016, loosely based on the real-life trial consultancy of Dr. Phil McGraw. In 2024, after a cameo appearance on NCIS the week before, CBS announced that Weatherly would reprise his role as DiNozzo with on-screen love interest Cote de Pablo reprising as Ziva David in a new NCIS spin-off series called NCIS: Tony & Ziva on Paramount+.
Weatherly was a presenter at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2016, and the 40th People's Choice Awards in 2014. He has appeared on numerous talk shows including The Rachel Ray Show, CBS This Morning, Live with Kelly and Ryan, the Today Show, the Late Show, and The Late Late Show with James Corden.

### Directing

Weatherly has directed numerous short films and television episodes from the series NCIS and Bull. He directed the 2017 documentary Jamaica Man, about the life of British expatriate Nigel Pemberton, which premiered at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. Jamaica Man won "Best Documentary Portrait" at the 2017 Doc LA - Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, and "Best Documentary" at the 2018 NYC Independent Film Festival. The film was also screened at the 2018 Tiburon International Film Festival and TMFF festival.

## Music

Weatherly sings and plays several instruments, including piano and guitar. He has written several songs, including two songs from the NCIS soundtracks, "Bitter and Blue" and "Under the Sun". He played in a band and performed music on his own while pursuing his early career in New York City. Another early project of his was a video shoot for a karaoke CD: A Taste of Honey's version of "Sukiyaki".

## Philanthropy

Weatherly and his wife are involved with nonprofit organizations such as the Tryall Fund, which focuses on improving education and public health in Hanover Parish, Jamaica. They are also involved with Environmental Working Group, an organization focused on environmental consciousness, and Healthy Child Healthy World, a children's health initiative.

## Personal life

Weatherly married his Loving/The City co-star Amelia Heinle in February 1995. Their son was born in 1996. They divorced in 1997.
During filming of Dark Angel in January 2000, Weatherly began a relationship with co-star Jessica Alba, leading to their engagement in 2001. The relationship ended in August 2003.
Weatherly married Serbian-Canadian internist Dr. Bojana Janković on September 30, 2009. The couple lives in Manhattan with their two children: a daughter and a son.
Weatherly is the uncle of actress Alexandra Breckenridge.

### Legal issues

In January 2018, CBS settled for $9.5 million with actress Eliza Dushku after she was fired from a recurring role on Bull after informing producers of Weatherly's inappropriate behavior on the set. According to documents from the official mediation, Weatherly was recorded on video making comments about spanking Dushku over his knee, soliciting a threesome, alluding to sexual assault in his "rape van", and other inappropriate remarks. After Dushku spoke with producers, Weatherly texted CBS Television Studios' president David Stapf, saying he wanted to talk about Dushku's sense of humor, though Stapf pushed back, saying, "Ms. Dushku made the show better." Days later, showrunner Glenn Caron terminated Dushku's expected role on the show despite opposition from studio executives.
In November 2021, Dushku testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee about her sexual-harassment accusations during her time on Bull. She said in her testimony: "In 2017, I was aggressively pursued by CBS to become a co-lead in a show called Bull. I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady — a competent, high-powered lawyer meant to counterbalance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind. However, in my first week on my new job, I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized, and lewd verbal assaults. I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star." Dushku added that Weatherly called her "legs" and talked about his sperm.
In December 2018, when the settlement was reported, Weatherly publicly apologized for the comments, saying "When Eliza told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized." Dushku responded that Weatherly broke the terms of their settlement by speaking to the press and characterized his apology as "more deflection, denial, and spin." Pauley Perrette and Sasha Alexander, Weatherly's co-stars from NCIS, tweeted in support of him following the accusations. In August 2019, it was reported that both Weatherly and Caron were undergoing leadership training following the settlement.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Credited as | Notes |
| 1990 | A Taste of Honey: Sukiyaki (Karaoke) | The Boy | Actor, producer, director | Short |
| 1997 | Meet Wally Sparks | Dean Sparks | Actor | |
| 1998 | The Last Days of Disco | 'Hap' | Actor | |
| 1999 | Winding Roads | Mick Simons | Actor | |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | DEA Agent Dave Juniper | Actor | |
| 2000 | The Specials | Verdict, Crusader Industries | Actor | |
| 2001 | Venus and Mars | Cody Battle Vandermeer | Actor | |
| 2001 | Trigger Happy | Bill | Actor | |
| 2005 | Her Minor Thing | Tom Lindeman | Actor | |
| 2007 | Michael Weatherly at Bondi | | Director | Short |
| 2007 | Extra NCIS: Michael Weatherly LiveCam | | Director | Short |
| 2007 | Michael Weatherly Climbs the Sydney Harbour Bridge | | Director | Short |
| 2010 | Charlie Valentine | Danny Valentine | Actor | Short |
| 2011 | LIGHTS! CAMERA! WEATHERLY! | | Director | Short |
| 2012 | A Movie About an Explosive Chicken from the Set of NCIS | | Director | Short |
| 2013 | Under the Sun | | Director, writer, executive producer | Short |
| 2017 | Jamaica Man | | Director, producer | Documentary |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | The Cosby Show | Theo's Roommate | Episode: "Theo's Final Final" |
| 1992–1995 | Loving | Cooper Alden | Unknown episodes |
| 1995–1996 | The City | Cooper Alden | Unknown episodes |
| 1996 | Pier 66 | Decker Monroe | Television movie |
| 1997 | Asteroid | Dr. Matthew Rogers | Television movie (NBC) |
| 1997 | Spy Game | James Cash | Episode: "What Family Doesn't Have its Ups and Downs?" |
| 1998 | The Advanced Guard | Kevin, The Captive | Television movie (Sci Fi); also known as The Colony |
| 1998 | Significant Others | Ben Chasen | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 1998 | Jesse | Roy | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 1999 | Charmed | Brendan Rowe | Episode: "When Bad Warlocks Turn Good" |
| 1999 | The Crow: Stairway to Heaven | James Horton | Episode: "A Gathering Storm" |
| 2000 | Cabin by the Lake | Boone | Television movie (USA) |
| 2000 | Grapevine | Jack Vallone | Episode: "Jack" |
| 2000 | Ally McBeal | Wayne Keeble | Episode: "Sex, Lies and Second Thoughts" |
| 2000–2002 | Dark Angel | Logan Cale | Main role |
| 2001 | 27th Annual People's Choice Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2001 | 2001 ALMA Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2001 | 2001 Teen Choice Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2002 | 28th Annual People's Choice Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2002 | Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2003 | JAG | NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo Jr. | Episodes: "Ice Queen", "Meltdown" (NCIS backdoor pilot) |
| 2003 | 29th Annual People's Choice Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2003–2012 | CBS Cares | Himself | 7 episodes |
| 2003–2016, 2024 | NCIS | NCIS Special Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo Jr. | Main role; (seasons 1–13), guest (season 21), director; (2 episodes) |
| 2004 | The Mystery of Natalie Wood | Robert Wagner | Television movie (ABC) |
| 2004 | Good Day Live | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2004 | The Wayne Brady Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2004 | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2004 | The Sharon Osbourne Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2007–2010 | Journal de 20 heures | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2007–2010 | Le Grand Journal | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2007–2012 | E! True Hollywood Story | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 2007–2017 | Extra with Billy Bush | Himself | 25 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | The Early Show | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Stand Up to Cancer | Himself | TV special |
| 2010 | Chelsea Lately | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2010 | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2010–2018 | Rachael Ray | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 2010–2018 | Live with Kelly and Ryan | Himself | 9 episodes |
| 2011 | BAFTA Britannia Awards | Himself | TV special |
| 2011 | Today Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Rove LA | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2011 | You Ask They Tell | Himself | Miniseries |
| 2012 | Major Crimes | Thorn Woodson | Episode: "The Ecstasy and the Agony" |
| 2012 | Dr. Phil | Special Agent Tony DiNozzo | Episode: "Overwhelmed and Frazzled" |
| 2012 | Late Show with David Letterman | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2012–2013 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2012–2016 | The Insider | Himself | 8 episodes |
| 2012–2018 | CBS This Morning | Himself | 4 episodes |
| 2013 | Do Something Awards | Presenter | TV special |
| 2013 | KTLA Morning News | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2013 | The Arsenio Hall Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2013 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Himself | Contestant; 1 episode |
| 2014 | 40th People's Choice Awards | Presenter | TV special |
| 2014 | Hollywood Game Night | Himself | Contestant; 2 episodes |
| 2014 | NCIS: New Orleans | NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo | Episode: "Carrier" |
| 2014 | The Queen Latifah Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2015 | NCIS: Los Angeles | NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo | Episode: "Blame It on Rio" |
| 2016 | 68th Primetime Emmy Awards | Presenter | TV special |
| 2016–2022 | Bull | Dr. Jason Bull | Actor: lead role Director: 2 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2016–2018 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Himself | 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Celebrity Page | Himself | 1 episodes |
| 2020 | Lead with Love | Himself | TV special |
| TBA | § NCIS: Tony & Ziva | NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo | Upcoming; production |

### Other media

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2024 | Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch Podcast | Self | Released on Spotify in June 2024 with 25 weekly episodes expected. Co-hosted with Cote de Pablo. Episodes include guest interviews with former NCIS cast members including Sasha Alexander and Sean Murray. |

## Discography

| Year | Title | Album | Type |
| 2013 | "Under the Sun" | NCIS: Benchmark (Official TV Soundtrack) | |
| 2009 | "Bitter and Blue" | NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack - Vol. 2 | Soundtrack |
| 2009 | "All Fall Apart" | | |
| 2009 | "Motionless Man" | | |
| 2009 | "Pretty Baby" | | |
| 2009 | "Suffer for Me" | | |
| 2009 | "Another Fear Confirmed" | | |
| 2009 | "Genie in My Dreams" | | |
| 2009 | "Every Time I Turn Around" | | |
| 2009 | "California" | | |
| 2009 | "That's What I Said" | | |

## 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
Doc LA - Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival
* 2017: Won, "Best Documentary Portrait" – Jamaica Man