Ruggedly handsome and a seasoned actor, Stephen Macht has most recently been seen as a recurring guest star on USA's hit series, SUITS, playing Professor Henry Gerard, Harvey Spector's morally flowed Harvard Ethics Professor.
Professionally trained at LAMDA Macht was signed by Universal for his role as Proctor in The Crucible at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada and soon thereafter cast as King Henry VIII opposite Charlton Heston in A Man For All Seasons at the Ahmanson Theater, as well as Lyman Felt in Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan at the Botanicum Theater in Los Angeles.
A mainstay on tv series (starring opposite Sharon Gless in Cagney and Lacey and Michelle Lee in Knots Landing) as well as films and repertory theater, Macht garnered Soap Opera Digest's "Villain of the Year" for his work on General Hospital. He has since guest-starred on a myriad of night-time hit shows like The Mentalist, Castle, and Boomtown, with appearances on many sci-fi series like Star Trek and its spinoffs.
Stephen starred in Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and is the star of the cult classic film, Monster Squad. A very well respected actor, Macht is known as the leading man on network tv movies including DC-911, Raid on Entebbe, George Washington, Ring of Passion and The Immigrants.
Stephen holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. from Tufts University, a Ph.D. from Indiana University and is an Ordained Chaplain.
PERSONAL LIFE
He is the father of the actor, Gabriel Macht ("Suits") and singer/songwriter, Jesse Macht, and together with his wife and other children, his future plans are to provide a lot of entertainment for years to come. Through the years, Macht has participated in and supported various charitable causes, serving as an Honorary Board Member of the Parkinsons Resource Organization and its Master of Ceremonies for ten years.