Thomas Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980) is a Canadian actor and former singer. He is known for playing Scotty Wandell on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis on the Space television science fiction series Killjoys (2015–2019), the romantic lead in a number of Hallmark Channel movies, and Aaron in Bros.
Macfarlane has also starred in TV movies, such as Hallmark Channel's The Memory Book,[13]Christmas Land, Maggie's Miracle Christmas, The Birthday Wish, and The Mistletoe Promise (2016).[10]
He 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.[14][15]
Stage
Macfarlane was one of the four leads in Juvenilia at the Playwrights Horizons Theater from November 14–December 21, 2003.[16] He played the lead role in the American premiere of the play Where Do We Live, staged at the Vineyard Theatre in May 2004.[17] The production was cited by the 2005 GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway and Off-Broadway. He also 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.[18] He reprised his role of Thomas for the L.A. Premiere at the Skirball Cultural Center from February 7–11 of 2007.
Macfarlane was the lead singer and a songwriter for the band Fellow Nameless,[20] which began in his 8th grade along with some of his classmates at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts under the name of Slipnaught, a name they randomly chose from a dictionary because they did not have a name for the band when it came time to perform on stage. Fellow Nameless came from Slipnaught mainly because the band members hated the original name, and so, Fellow Nameless was born at London Central Secondary School. Fellow Nameless has produced one underground album, which was a half-studio, half-live CD album, and they recorded an additional ten songs that never got put out including three songs that were recorded for a development deal with Maverick Records. They played a showcase for Danny Strick A&R of Maverick Records and in the end got passed over. The once thought of as defunct London, Ontario based band, Fellow Nameless, later had two incarnations without Macfarlane as lead singer. The first incarnation came in the second quarter of 2004 with the creation of Van A Primer and a new singer, Matthew Pearn. Their most recent incarnation, as of March, 2006, has three of the remaining band members under the new band name of Cancel Winter.
Personal life
Macfarlane came out as gay during an interview with The Globe and Mail on April 15, 2008.[2][21] On June 12, 2018, Macfarlane was naturalized as an American citizen.[22]
Macfarlane plays the cello,[23] and this skill was used in the Hallmark movie Chateau Christmas. He also plays the trumpet.[24]
On June 4, 2023, Macfarlane and his partner, alpine skier Hig Roberts welcomed their first child together, Tess Eleanor Macfarlane.[25]