Not a bad thing for someone who initially wasn’t going to move here permanently. An agent came as a result of that and though it was a number of years before he was able to procure the right papers to work freely, the rest has simply fallen in to place. Fortuitously, they’d been searching for a non-American and he got called in for an audition.Ī few days later an audition with Sarah Jessica Parker followed and he was cast for the role. Like it often goes, at the end of nine or ten months Bartlett met a guy, who was friends with a woman, who was best friends with the producers of Sex in the City. To, as he said, “Be in the opposite space, to be in a very stimulating place.”įor four months Bartlett did acting classes and then decided to extend his visa because he fell in love with the pulse of the city. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking the big questions in life at the time: Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? Where do I want to do it? Part of that search took him to New Zealand for a several-week-long wilderness walk and during that quest, he had the inspiration to come to New York. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. ~ by joel martens ~ murry bartlett as michael tolliver, with laura linney as mary ann singleton.

Michael tolliver tales of the city