
The sappiest moment in Big Eden is the grandfather's speech: "Why can't you see how much love we want to pour on top of you?" (Embraces grandson.) "Can't you see what a good job God's done here?" He's perturbed by proximity to the bisexual man whom he loved years ago, Dean (Tim DeKay) he's also being courted very discreetly by a silent but apparently man-loving Native American general-store proprietor named Pike (Eric Schweig). Turns out that the grandfather is in good shape, except that he's wheelchair-bound-and the village of Big Eden is gay-friendly to a degree that makes Guerneville look like Omaha. When Henry gets the news that his grandfather has had a stroke, he decides to drop everything and return to his idyllic hometown in Montana. "We've got to find you a man," says his assistant, Mary Margaret (Veanne Cox, last seen as the bitchy female lawyer told off by Erin Brockovich). He is, however, single, a dilemma spelled out for us in the bluntest way possible. He has no day job, lives in a loft with view in Brooklyn and is about to see his show open at the Whitney Museum. In the opening, we see that Henry enjoys an all-but-perfect life. THE BEAUTIFULLY appointed and yet fatally tacky Big Eden concerns a Manhattan artist named Henry Hart (Arye Gross). The sap runs high in too-perfect 'Big Eden' In May 2010, he returned to Le Moyne College as the commencement speaker and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa.Montana Moment: Arye Gross and Eric Scheig find paradise in 'Big Eden.' They have a daughter, Danna, and a son, Jamis. Personal life ĭeKay and his wife, actress Elisa Taylor, reside in Los Angeles, California. He taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.
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He played Duvall Pritchard in Fox Television's 2016 sci-fi drama series Second Chance.ĭeKay is a member of the Actors Studio. DeKay made his directorial debut in the episode " Stealing Home", which premiered in 2012. In 2009, he began starring in the USA Network comedy–drama White Collar as FBI agent Peter Burke.
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DeKay has also guest-starred on several other TV series, including Friends, CSI, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, Scrubs, and Chuck. He would work with Julia Louis-Dreyfus again in The New Adventures of Old Christine, playing a temperamental boyfriend of Louis-Dreyfus's character in a three-episode story arc. DeKay appeared in two episodes of Seinfeld: " The Soul Mate" and " The Bizarro Jerry", as Elaine's boyfriend, Kevin, who’s seen as Jerry’s exact opposite (and thus compared to Bizarro Superman from “the backwards bizarro world”). He also appeared as Dean Stewart in the gay-themed comedy/drama film Big Eden in 2000. DeKay was a cast member of Party of Five from 1997 to 1999, Carnivàle from 2003 to 2005, and Tell Me You Love Me in 2007. His first onscreen acting job was as corporation head Larry Deon on seaQuest 2032. It was included in several short film festivals, including Cannes Short Film Corner and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. In 2009, he was both director and producer of the short film This Monday. Career ĭeKay has performed in plays both on Broadway and off, including Ridiculous Fraud at the McCarter Theatre, Billy Budd at the Circle in the Square Theatre, Someone to Watch Over Me with the Denver Theatre Company, The Merchant of Venice on the Hartford Stage, and the national tour of The Lion in Winter. After taking a few courses in directing at Syracuse University, DeKay attended Rutgers University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree and met his wife, actress Elisa Taylor. However, he realized that he wanted to work in theater instead.

ĭeKay planned for a career in business or law and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985. DeKay attended Le Moyne College to study business and philosophy, where he also played baseball, eventually deciding to pursue a career in theater. He also enjoyed the arts and performed in his high school's production of Oliver!.


Growing up, DeKay enjoyed athletics, having played both varsity basketball and baseball, the latter of which is a generational tradition in his family. He attended Lansing High School, approximately nine miles from Ithaca. Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963, to Jim DeKay and Jill Vaughn in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. He starred in the USA Network series White Collar (2009–2014) Early life Timothy Robert DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor.
