Michael Patel

Michael Prashant Patel is one of the main characters on the Netflix show Champions. He lived in Cleveland, Ohio for his whole life and had to stay in the closet. He dreams big and is very ambitious about a career in the performing arts and becoming a star. This is why he enrolls at a prominent New York high school for the performing arts. Michael is a visionary, and occasionally imagines and tweaks his life-story, which he saves for future interviews, and harbours a stage name, Miguel Blanchet Almodovar.

After 15 years of growing up with his single-mother, Priya,  he is shown to his father Vince again, which for him is a first that makes it twice a surprise, as he not only has been told his father was killed in Afghanistan, Priya was telling him lies to cover the disenchantment of the real identity of his father. Nevertheless, determined and resourceful Michael takes this New York adventure to both persue his calling and find his voice as an artist, and use this opportunity to fill in the things he had lacked or missed before, and grow into a person he wishes to be. His instant chemistry with his uncle Matthew alleviates the growing pains.