Michael Hsu Rosen is an American actor and dancer best known for his roles as Jayden and Nabil in the
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...
series ''
Pretty Smart
''Pretty Smart'' is a 1987 American comedy-drama film starring Tricia Leigh Fisher and Patricia Arquette. It was directed by Dimitri Logothetis. It was Arquette's first film. It was mostly filmed in Athens with most interiors and some exteriors ...
'' and ''
Tiny Pretty Things'', respectively. Rosen also starred in the
Broadway revivals of ''
Torch Song'' and ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
''.
Early life and education
Rosen was born and raised in
New York City
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on the
Upper West Side
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. He attended
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS), also referred to as Fieldston, is a private independent school in New York City. The school is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. The school serves approximately 1,700 students with 480 facult ...
, as well as the
Professional Children's School
Professional Children's School (PCS) is a not-for-profit, college preparatory school geared toward working and aspiring child actors and dancers in grades six through twelve. The school was founded in New York City in 1914 to provide an academic ed ...
. He trained for nine years at the
School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the most renowned ballet school in the United States. School of American Ballet is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New ...
and matriculated at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
before withdrawing to pursue acting full-time.
Career
While in high school, Rosen performed with the
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company' ...
and made his
Broadway debut at seventeen in the 2009 revival of ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
''. He later returned to Broadway in revivals of ''
On the Town'' and
Harvey Fierstein's ''
Torch Song''.
Rosen has guest starred in such television shows as ''
Jessica Jones
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'', ''
Monsterland'', and ''
The Good Doctor'' as well as earned main roles in Netflix's ''
Tiny Pretty Things'' and ''
Pretty Smart
''Pretty Smart'' is a 1987 American comedy-drama film starring Tricia Leigh Fisher and Patricia Arquette. It was directed by Dimitri Logothetis. It was Arquette's first film. It was mostly filmed in Athens with most interiors and some exteriors ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Stage
Broadway
Off-Broadway
References
External links
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American male film actors
American male television actors
American male ballet dancers
Male actors from New York City
American gay actors
1991 births
Living people
Dancers from New York (state)
21st-century American dancers
21st-century American male actors
Yale University alumni
School of American Ballet alumni
Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni