WME Promotes Mike DeVeau To Partner

EXCLUSIVE: WME has promoted Mike DeVeau to partner in the agency’s talent department. He represents a diverse roster of actors, filmmakers, and creatives across film and TV who have achieved a range of commercial and critical success.

One of DeVeau’s major achievements included closoing the deal for Felicity Jones’ role in The Brutalist, for which she is nominated for the supporting actress Oscar, and her upcoming roles in Oh. What. Fun. for Amazon MGM Studios and Train Dreams which just sold to Netflix following its Sundance premiere. He represents past Oscar winners and nominees Riz Ahmed, Angelina Jolie, and Ben Affleck.

DeVeau also closed the deals for Ahmed to star in Alejandro Iñárritu’s next feature for Warner Bros/Legendary, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme and Prime Video series Quarterlife, which he will also write and EP. DeVeau closed Jolie’s deal to next star in Alice Winocour’s Stitches, coming off her Golden Globe nomination for Maria.

DeVeau has been instrumental in building Alan Ritchson’s career, closing deals for him including The Man with the Bag for Amazon MGM, War Machine for Netflix/Lionsgate, Motor City and a fourth season of Prime Video’s Reacher.DeVeau also represents emerging stars, notably boosting Brandon Sklenar’s career. Following his role in It Ends with Us alongside fellow client Blake Lively, Sklenar’s upcoming projects include Universal/Blumhouse’s The Drop, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid and Skydance’s The Rescue.

Additional talent on DeVeau’s roster includes Robert Pattinson, Zazie Beetz, Sam Worthington, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gemma Chan, Ursula Corberó, Johan Renck, and Diego Luna, as well as Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, the two leads of Plan B’s best picture Oscar nominee Nickel Boys.

Based in WME’s Beverly Hills office, DeVeau got his start in the mailroom in 2013 and came up through the agent trainee program. WME’s talent department is led by co-heads Andrew Dunlap and Doug Lucterhand. The agency represents 2024 Emmy winning actors Anna Sawai, Jean Smart, Jeremy Allen White, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, as well as 2025 Oscar acting nominees Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, and Colman Domingo.