As of August 2024[update], his last role was in a 2019 episode of What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage, choosing to focus on other endeavours. In 2021, Michael became the Chief Evangelist of Lumanu, a social media management company aimed at helping online creators manage their brand and business, and began writing for Forbes as a marketing expert and business analyst.
Life and career
Michael was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and is of Puerto Rican and Russian Jewish descent.[2] Michael's career as a child actor began at the age of three, when he started booking print ad jobs. Michael enrolled at the Company Acting Studio in Atlanta at the age of five, and was discovered by a talent agent when he was six.[3] His first commercial role was for Bojangles' Famous Chicken, alongside NFL quarterback Jake Delhomme. At age ten, he was chosen to host of a series of four commercials for Hasbro Toys that would air on Cartoon Network. After the ad campaign, Cartoon Network invited Michael to present and host his own show on the network, which culminated in two shows named Fried Dynamite, which aired on Fridays, and Dynamite Action Squad! on Saturdays.[4]
In May 2010, Blake appeared in No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School and later joined with the film's star, country singer Celeste Kellogg, to create and sing a duet titled "Looking In Your Eyes".[5] He made a small cameo in Kellogg's music video "My Jeans".[6] In June 2010, he was discovered in an open casting call and was cast in a co-lead role as Charlie Delgado in the Disney Channel made-for-TV movie musical Lemonade Mouth.[7] Michael later called this role the one that "catapulted his career" and "helped him gain an audience".[8] Soon after, Disney approached Michael and asked him to read for a role on an upcoming sitcom.[9] Michael later accepted the role as Tyler James in the Disney Channel sitcom Dog with a Blog, who he portrayed from 2012 to 2015.[10]
In 2021, Michael joined the board of directors of Lumanu, a social media management company, as the Chief Evangelist.[15] He was inspired to help other creators elevate their social status on the internet instead of following what he called the "traditional Hollywood film route", using experience he gained from becoming one of the first and youngest people to be officially partnered with YouTube from a young age.[16] He also began writing for Forbes as a marketing expert, and to promote Lumanu's services, that same year.[17]
