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Michael Graziadei
Michael Graziadei
	Graziadei in 2014
Born	Germany
Years active	2004–present

Michael Graziadei is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Life and career

Graziadei was born in Germany. He began acting in Germany, on stage, at the age of 5 in a production of The King and I.^[1] While at the University of New Hampshire, he also appeared in The Servant of Two Masters and History of the Devil.^[1] In 2004, he was cast as Daniel Romalotti, Phyllis Summers' son, in the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. In 2013 he left from soap for career in primetime television. In 2005 and in 2006, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series.^[2]^[3] In film, Graziadei starred in the films Boogeyman 2 (2007), Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009), and The Outside (2009).

Graziadei guest-starred in a number of television series, including NCIS, Criminal Minds, 90210, Castle, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..^[4] He had a recurring roles on FX's American Horror Story as Travis Wanderley, a young boyfriend of Jessica Lange's character,^[5] and on The CW's The Secret Circle.^[6] In 2013, after leaving daytime television, Graziadei was cast as a series regular in the ABC drama pilot Westside.^[7] The pilot was not picked up for the continuing series. Later, he was cast as the male lead in the Lifetime drama series The Lottery, opposite Marley Shelton.^[8] The show was cancelled after one season.^[9]

In August 2016, Graziadei reprised his portrayal of Daniel Romalotti on The Young and the Restless for a limited run, in celebration of the soap's 11,000th episode. He also landed recurring roles on the Audience mixed martial arts drama series Kingdom and the Amazon Video historical drama series Good Girls Revolt.^[10]

In 2018, Graziadei appeared in episode 3 of the remake of Magnum P.I.; he played Tara's ex-boyfriend and kidnapper in the episode entitled "The Woman Who Never Died", originally airing on October 8, 2018.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Boogeyman 2	Darren	Direct to video
2009	Into the Blue 2: The Reef	Mace	Direct to video
2009	The Outside	Ned Blakey
2011	Halfway to a Blackout	Chas Knopfler	Short film
2012	Transspecular	Bobby Brovado	Short film
2013	The Blackout	Chas Knopfler
2016	Her Last Will	Harold Cotton

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Grounded for Life	College Guy	Episode: "Communication Breakdown"
2004–13, 2016, 2022–present	The Young and the Restless	Daniel Romalotti	917 episodes Nominated – Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer Nominated – Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series (2005, 2006)
2004	NCIS	Chuck	Episode: "Split Decision"
2008	Criminal Minds	Steven	Episode: "In Heat"
2008	The Cleaner	Aaron	Episode: "Pilot"
2008	90210	Eric	3 episodes
2009	Castle	Brent Johnson	Episode: "Nanny McDead"
2009	Crash	Gavin Buckley	3 episodes
2010	CSI: NY	Keith Borgese	Episode: "Sanguine Love"
2010	Saving Grace	Kaz	Episode: "Let's Talk"
2010	Miami Medical	Scott	Episode: "Golden Hour"
2010	Ghost Whisperer	Kyle/Seth	Episode: "Dead Ringer"
2010	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Kurt Francis	Episode: "Blood Moon"
2011	Necessary Roughness	Tyler Paxton	Episode: "Dream On"
2011	American Horror Story: Murder House	Travis Wanderley	5 episodes
2012	The Secret Circle	Callum	5 episodes
2012	The Mob Doctor	Louis	Episode: "Confessions"
2013	Justified	Mason Goines	Episode: "Truth and Consequences"
2013	The Client List	Bobby	Episode: "Unanswered Prayers"
2013	Longmire	Richard Montero	Episode: "Sound and Fury"
2013	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Jakob Nystrom	Episode: "The Well"
2014	Grimm	Ken	Episode: "My Fair Wesen"
2014	The Lottery	Kyle Walker	Lead role; 10 episodes
2015	NCIS: New Orleans	Kai Bryant	Episode: "You'll Do"
2015	Hawaii Five-0	Mark Sheppard	Episode: "Na Pilikua Nui"
2015	Kingdom	Drew Parker	3 episodes
2016	Stitchers	Roman Bain	Episode: "Midnight Stitcher"
2016	Good Girls Revolt	Gregory	5 episodes
2016	Scorpion	Ronen Cole	Episode: "Little Boy Lost"
2017	MacGyver	Wyatt Orwell	Episode: "Control"
2017	APB	James Kilton	Episode: "Hate of Comrades"
2017	The Night Shift	Martin Easton	Episode: "Control"
2017	Chicago P.D.	Josh Miller	Episode: "Care Under Fire"
2018	Magnum P.I.	Val Jenson	Episode: "The Woman Who Never Died"
2019	True Detective	Dan O'Brien	3 episodes
2019	9-1-1	Eric Lawrence Parnell	Episode: "New Beginnings"
2019	Proven Innocent	Jeff Skadden	Episode: "The Burden of Truth"
2019	Watchmen	Carmichael	Episode: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"
2019	All Rise	Choke	Episode: "How to Succeed in Law Without Really Re-Trying"
2020	The Magicians	Raylan Cortez	Episode: "Garden Variety Homicide"
2020	Lucifer	'Dirty Doug' Sargisian	Episode: "Really Sad Devil Guy"
2020	L.A.'s Finest	Garth Haney	Episode: "Gone in 60 Seconds"
2020	S.W.A.T.	Mitch Anderson	Episode: "Memento Mori"
2021	The Rookie	Sergeant Mark Murray	Episode: "Triple Duty"
2022	The Lincoln Lawyer	Jeff Golantz	6 episodes