Michael Raymond-James

Michael Raymond-Jones is one of the minor actors of Once Upon A Time, portraying Neal Cassidy.

Life and Career
Raymond-James was born in Detroit, Michigan and graduated Clarkston High School in 1996, where he was a football and track standout. He started out doing theater and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, with George Loros, Geoffrey Horne and Robert Castle. Following several stage appearances in New York, including 'The Petrified Forest' at the Pantheon Theater, he relocated to Los Angeles.

He has guest starred in such series as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Medium, Boston Legal, ER and the season two premiere of Lie to Me. He starred in the FX original series Terriers which was canceled by FX on December 6, 2010 after the first season.

In his feature debut Raymond-James played Justin Timberlake's best friend in Black Snake Moan with Christina Ricci and Samuel Jackson. The actor also starred in Jonny Hirschbein's award-winning short film The Fix, working alongside Robert Partick and David Paymer. His feature-film credits include Moonlight Serenade, starring as a piano prodigy opposite Academy Award Nominee Amy Adams.

In an episode of The Walking Dead titled "Nebraska", Raymond-James played a young man named Dave, the first non-zombie killed by series protagonist Rick Grimes. In 2012, he played Neal Cassidy in Once Upon A Time.