Michael Steven McGrady is an American theater, film and television actor, and painter. He portrayed Tom Matthews in Beyond and voiced and provided the motion capture ^{[clarification needed]} for Rusty Galloway in the 2011 video game LA Noire.

McGrady was born in Federal Way, Washington, to Gloria, a hair salon owner, and George McGrady, an airline mechanic. He attended Federal Way High School and the University of Washington, majoring in Business Administration. He currently splits his time between Southern California and Washington State, with his wife Ilka.^[2]

McGrady had planned to become a lawyer and was working at a bank when his sister entered him in a contest for a scholarship to a local acting school. After that McGrady moved to California to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.^[3] He was cast in a Cherry Pepsi commercial. He has worked steadily in the industry since. He guest starred in several popular television shows such as 24, Murder She Wrote, CSI: Miami, Leverage and Prison Break. McGrady played Sal Salinger on the TNT drama Southland, which premiered in April 2009. He has also been seen as recurring character Frank Barnes on Showtime's Ray Donovan and appeared as Detective Philip Vanatter on FX's American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson.

McGrady gave his voice and likeness to Rockstar Games period video game L.A. Noire as Rusty Galloway, and most recently appeared in the film Freelancers. He starred in Low Winter Sun for AMC as Brendan McCann, and as Cy in the independent feature Under The Harvest Moon. He played Detective John Gentile in The Frozen Ground.^[4]

McGrady is of Irish, British, German and French heritage. At age 19, he overcame stage 3 skin cancer (malignant melanoma), the same disease that had claimed his father’s life a year earlier.^[5]

Michael McGrady and his wife Ilka have three children: Michaela, Hunter (a model), and the late Tynan, who died in 2021, aged 23.^[6] The family established the Tynan McGrady Foundation, a nonprofit Scholarship and Funding organization for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) endeavors.^[7]

• Michael McGrady at IMDb