Michael Welch: Flying starships, fighting zombies, getting baked, showing his chest. With some dick pics

 

You probably remember Michael Welch from the Twilight saga, about a girl torn between vampire and werewolf boyfriends (Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner).  He plays a human who has an unrequited crush on her.

Michael had sharp features and striking eyes that make him look angelic, demonic, or alien, so he was often cast as a  gay-vague outsider, even if his characters sometimes experienced unrequited heterosexual passions.

He began his acting career at the age of 10 in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)  as Artim, a guy from a non-technological planet who bonds with the android Data.  performance won him a Young Artist Award.

Next came a series of paranormal and science fiction roles, including a clone of Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) who just wants to be a normal teenager, on Stargate SG-1.  

He guest-starred in a number of sitcoms and dramatic series, including a memorable role as a new neighbor who falls for the brainy Malcolm in Malcolm in the Middle.

On Joan of Arcadia (2003-2005), Michael plays Luke Girardi, genius brother of the girl who talks to God,  He has a homoromantic buddy-bond with his best friend Friedman (Aaron Himmelstein), although he's also girl-crazy.

In The United States of Leland (2003), his mentally-challenged Ryan is murdered by classmate Leland, Ryan Gosling, who is dating his sister.

The Grind (2009) is about a grifter, Luke (C. Thomas Howell), who depends on his friends Josh and Courtney (Michael, Tanya Allen) to get him out of a jam. They start a sleazy website, but things go sour, and Luke has to rescue them from the Mexican mafia.

In Lost Dream (2009), college student Perry (Michael) falls for nihilistic free-spirit Giovanni (Shaun Sipos), who is involved in risky sex, drugs, and games of Russian roulette.  He must save Gio before it's too late.

As we often find, teenage gay-subtext roles give way to a thoroughly heteronormative adulthood.  Hansel and Gretel Get Baked, 2013, about a witch who lures teenagers into her house and drugs them with marijuana before literally baking them for dinner.  

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In Z Nation, 2014-15, Michael plays zombie apocalypse survivor Mack, "an all-American jock with an eye for the ladies."  Why is being attracted to women considered a defining trait on the fan wiki?  Lots of people find women attractive.

In The Grounds, 2018, the alcoholic Calvin, played by Trevor Morgan, cons his way into a job as groundskeeper for the reclusive Michael. They buddy bond, but also fight over The Girl.

In the 2020s, he has been very busy:

Nick in A Christmas Hero, a Christian drama, not a romcom.

Jody in the Western The Last Shoot Out

Ryan in Scrambled, about a "perpetual bridesmaid on a journey of self-discovery."

Michael has an OnlyFans page, but so far he's only posted shirtless shots and one or two butts.  His only dick pic is...oh, wait, this isn't Michael, it's Keith Allen, his costar on Z Nation.

Here he is...oh, wait, that's Raymond Lee, his costar on an episode of Quantum Leap.

The real nude shot, from M.F.A., 2017.  That's Master of Fine Arts: an art student finds inspiration in killing and painting rapists. Michael plays a...well, you know.

A close-up

In real life, Michael is a gay ally.  That doesn't really make up for a career-full of heteronormative plotlines, but it's a start.  

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