Mike Manning

Mike Manning first found fame as a cast member of the MTV reality series The Real World: D.C. before turning to acting with roles on shows like Hawaii Five-0 and Teen Wolf. In 2019, he was tapped to play Caleb McKinnon on the streaming soap The Bay, which earned him a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Daytime Fiction Program. Manning then joined the cast of Days of Our Lives, where he played Charlie Dale from 2020-22. In 2025, he began appearing as Bradley “Smitty” Smith on Beyond the Gates. Manning and his husband, Nicholas Tocco, were married in October 2017.