Matt Bomer’s 10 Best Roles, According to IMDb

The dashing, incredibly blue-eyed Matt Bomer has been slowly but surely making his mark in the entertainment industry, especially on television, although many people will surely remember him for his stint in the stripper drama Magic Mike.

On television, Bomer has had a commendable run for several years now but broke into the mainstream with his starring role in the police-procedural comedy-drama, White Collar, as the irresistible con artist-turned-FBI-consultant Neal Caffrey. His career doesn’t end there, either; Bomer’s best roles keep on coming.

10 Chuck: Bryce Larkin (8.2)

IMDb rates NBC’s spy comedy, Chuck, the highest amongst Matt Bomer’s credits. Bomer plays the CIA agent Bryce Larkin, formerly a friend of the lead protagonist, Chuck Bartowski, with whom he has a complicated past.

Larkin appears recurrently in the series and is also the character responsible for setting in the motion the wheels for the entire series. For a good while, Chuck believes that Larkin is dead until he receives the Intersect, which is the encoded computer server with access to top-secret government information.

9 White Collar: Neal Caffrey (8.2)

Neal Caffrey is by far Bomer’s most popular role to date. Caffrey is one of the best con artists of his generation. The drama begins as the FBI gives chase to this genius con man who has broken prison after finally being caught, following years of cat and mouse with Special Agent Peter Burke.

Caffrey, devastatingly handsome and impeccably suave, soon works his way into becoming an FBI consultant, working with law enforcement while he plots his own escape. White Collar was conceived around the Leonardo Di Caprio-Tom Hanks starrer Catch Me If You Can.

8 Traveler: Jay Burchell (8.2)

A short-lived crime drama, the ABC show Traveler depicted two young men fleeing from the FBI who believe them to be responsible for bombing a museum. The series was canceled after its brief run but Bomer got noticed for playing Burchell alongside Logan Marshall-Green’s Tyler.

This was still early days for Matt Bomer who hadn’t yet become quite the household name. The series might have found a better audience had ABC deemed it wise to continue it for a few more months.

7 Doom Patrol: Larry Trainor (8.0)

Bomer plays gay superhero Negative Man in a path-breaking role in Doom Patrol, created by Jeremy Carver, who is also one of the creators of the CW fantasy drama, Supernatural. The latter revolves around a group of men and women whose horrific tragedies have given them weird superpowers.

Bomer essays the role of Larry Trainor who becomes the highly radioactive Negative Man after accidentally flying his aircraft through cosmic radiation waves in the sky. Bomer plays Trainor before he became Negative Man and voices him after he is bandaged up.

6 American Horror Story: Andy/Donovan (8.0)

American Horror Story, an anthology horror series, has developed quite the cult following over the years. The show offers carefully stylized horror, sexualized and gory, with some scattered social commentary woven into the narrative.

This is a series where actors recur as different characters in different episodes depending on the story. Bomer appeared as a guest actor in the series, recurring in the episode, “Freak Show” and the being upgraded to the main cast in “Hotel”. In the latter, it was Bomer’s character, Donovan who turned out to be the murderer.

5 The Sinner: Jamie Burns (8.0)

Bomer joined the cast of the critically acclaimed crime drama The Sinner, in its third season. Crafted as a psychological thriller, the series delves into the psyche of the common man and digs deep to find out what drives them to commit crimes.

Actor Bill Pullman plays Detective Ambrose who investigates different people involved in different types of crimes and reveals fascinating details in their past that had led up to the events of the present. Burns plays a young man involved in a car crash whose complicated history is revealed leading to a dark turn of events.

4 The Normal Heart: Felix Turner (7.9)

Bomer’s most brilliant acting role to date, Felix Turner is the handsome New York Times fashion journalist and lover of writer Ned Weeks, portrayed by Mark Ruffalo. The critically acclaimed television film depicted the panic surrounding the emergence of HIV AIDS for the first time in the 1980s when the disease was believed to be transmitted only among gays and thrust the community headlong into a devastating tragedy.

As utter disarray unfolds, Ned Weeks along with other members of the community come together to make sense of the chaos around them. Bomer goes through a mind-numbing physical transformation to do justice to the heart-breaking story of the closeted character who gets diagnosed with the deadly disease. The actor bagged his first Golden Globe for his supporting role in the film.

3 The Last Tycoon: Monroe Stahr (7.7)

Set in the golden age of the film industry around the 1930s, the extravagant Amazon studios historical drama was based on the incomplete novel of the same name by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story revolved around the politics and intrigue marring the large scale Hollywood studios of the time.

Bomer plays the protagonist Stahr, a dashing studio executive producing huge motion pictures but who eventually becomes caught up in the politics and starts losing a grip of everything around him. Bomer, debonair as ever, delivered a nuanced performance as the enigmatic Stahr whose character, it is widely believed, was inspired by the life of the Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg.

2 The Nice Guys: John-Boy (7.4)

Bomer pulls off the baddie with alacrity in his Nice Guys role as a fixer in this crime comedy starring bigger names like Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

John Boy is a ruthless professional assassin in this 1970s buddy cop movie, tasked with bumping off Crowe’s hired enforcer, Healey and Gosling’s star-crossed detective, March, who have joined forces to investigate the disappearance of a young woman. Bomer enjoys himself thoroughly in one of his few roles as a merciless villain.

1 Tru Calling: Luc Johnston (7.4)

In one of his early television roles, Bomer played the boyfriend of the protagonist, Tru, in this fantasy/crime drama series that aired way back from 2003 to 2005.

Bomer appeared as a series regular in the first season until his character was tragically killed off to save Tru’s brother from getting shot. However, despite his short run as Luc Johnston, Bomer had clearly done enough to get noticed.

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