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Michael Sutton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Sutton June 18, 1970 Los Angeles, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Michael Sutton is an American actor.
Sutton was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Beverly Hills High School. He has a bachelor's degree in Film Production from Cal State University Northridge 1992. He was the president of Production Ardustry Entertainment in 2005 and a founding member of the Next Generation Council for the Motion Picture & Television Fund from 2003 to the present.
Sutton is best known for playing the HIV-positive teenager and AIDS victim Stone Cates on the daytime serial General Hospital . He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 for that role. It was announced that he would return to General Hospital for two episodes in 2010 [1] and again in August 2017. [2]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993–1995, 2010, 2017 | General Hospital | Michael "Stone" Cates | Nominated-Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Daytime Series (1995) Nominated-Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (1996) |
| 1997 | Inventing the Abbotts | Steve | |
| 1998 | Error in Judgement | James | |
| 1999 | Dark Nova | Zed | |
| Wanted | Jimmy Scrico | ||
| American Intellectuals | |||
| 2000 | Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula | Radu | |
| 2002 | Hyper Sonic | Kevin Irvine | |
| My Daughter's Tears | Ben |
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