1. Thomas Luke Macfarlane was born on 19 January 1980, in London, Ontario.
14 Facts About Luke Macfarlane
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Luke Macfarlane's father Thomas was the director of student health services at the University of Western Ontario, and his mother Penny is a mental health nurse at a London hospital.
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Luke Macfarlane had an early role playing opposite Cynthia Nixon in Robert Altman's miniseries Tanner on Tanner on the Sundance Channel.
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Luke Macfarlane subsequently had leading roles on the 2005 FX series Over There and in the 2009 two-part miniseries titled Iron Road.
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Luke Macfarlane has starred in TV movies, such as Hallmark Channel's The Memory Book, Christmas Land, Maggie's Miracle Christmas, The Birthday Wish, and The Mistletoe Promise.
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Luke Macfarlane co-starred in a major film release, Bros, with Billy Eichner in 2022, which was noted for the principal cast being all LGBTQ+, even for heterosexual and cis-gender characters.
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Luke Macfarlane played the lead role in the American premiere of the play Where Do We Live, staged at the Vineyard Theatre in May 2004.
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Luke Macfarlane appeared with Jill Clayburgh and Hamish Linklater in the off-Broadway production of The Busy World is Hushed, again at Playwrights Horizons, in Summer 2006.
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Luke Macfarlane was part of the one-night celebrity performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff.
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Luke Macfarlane starred in the show alongside Eden Espinosa, Vicki Lewis, Fred Willard and David Blue.
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Luke Macfarlane starred in the world premiere of stage drama Reverberation in February 2015 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut.
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Luke Macfarlane came out as gay during an interview with The Globe and Mail on 15 April 2008.
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On 12 June 2018, Luke Macfarlane was naturalized as an American citizen.
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Luke Macfarlane plays the cello, and this skill was used in the Hallmark movie Chateau Christmas.