By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-05 20:26:21 | Updated at 2025-01-07 10:14:28
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A nonbinary Netflix star who went missing over the weekend has been found with unspecified injuries, their partner has revealed.
Posts stating that the 31-year-old Politician star, Theo Germaine, had gone missing surfaced around 2am Sunday, on William Rusan's Instagram account.
An actor himself who is based in Chicago, Rusan framed the evolving situation as an 'emergency,' while offering some cryptic clues as to what may have happened.
He said his partner - who's appeared in LGBTQ-geared films alongside the likes of Kevin Bacon - had been missing since late Saturday afternoon 'with symptoms of a traumatic brain injury.
'They are disoriented and their phone is not charged,' the Illinois actor wrote, offering little detail.
'This is what they look like,' he added, using his partner's preferred pronouns while sharing a recent photo of the two.
'If you see them, DM me, call me.... or their mother.... immediately. Thank you and I apologize for the alarm. Concussions are scary.'
Within six hours, Rusan would air another update - this one revealing that the streaming star had been found. Still not offering specifics, he said they were safe but still 'badly concussed.' Some other details were provided as well.
Theo Germaine, a nonbinary Netflix star who rose to fame in 2019 thanks to a lead role on Netflix's The Politician, went missing early Sunday morning, before being found with unspecified injuries, their boyfriend revealed
The details were aired Sunday by Germaine's boyfriend William Rusan, who framed the evolving situation as an 'emergency' while offering some cryptic clues as to what may have happened.
'Updating again with the intensely gratifying news that Theo has been found badly concussed, cold and out of sorts but otherwise unharmed,' Rusan wrote around 8am.
'The family here cannot thank everyone enough for your help and well wishes.
'Please keep in mind that as Theo is treated and recovering from this incident that their capacity to work with screens will be temporarily diminished,' the Work in Progress actor wrote.
'They may not be able to get back to everyone quickly.
'This post will be archived tomorrow afternoon once people are aware the emergency is over,' he went on, before sharing a different update about the discovery on Facebook.
First, he thanked 'the community that showed up for' his spouse, calling the response 'incredible,' before warning that 'privacy will help the healing.'
On Facebook, he wrote how he was 'grateful and relieved to report that' Germaine was home safe, adding that the actor was currently 'under doctor's care.'
'They are badly concussed and will probably struggle with screens for a week or two (for those who have and will reach out) but they are otherwise healthy,' Rusan again said. 'The entire family really appreciates everyone's concern.'
Posts stating that the 31-year-old had gone missing in Chicago surfaced around 2am Sunday, on Rusan's Instagram account
Within six hours, Rusan - also an actor - shared that his partner had been found, albeit in poor condition
It remains unclear what occurred, with Rusan asking that members of the public respect his partner's privacy
As of writing, not other information has been shared, and the circumstances surrounding the actor's disappearance remained intensely shrouded.
They shot to fame in 2019 after starring in the Politician on Netflix, as a transgender character who uses his/him pronouns but never explicitly refers to his gender identity by choice.
'He’s just a high school boy who gets to live his life and the story is about trying to get his friend to win the election," Germaine, who was born female, told Marie Claire at the time.
They went on to hold major roles in Showtimes Work in Progress - alongside their beau - and the 2022 slasher film They/Them, which centers on an LGBTQ conversion therapy camp and stars Bacon as well.
At one point, Germaine identified as trans, they told Vogue in 2020 - recalling how they spent their late teenage years as a man before finally deciding, 'F*ck all of this' and identifying as non-binary,
'Being limited to just playing, you know, a select few trans characters that Hollywood decides are palatable to put into the industry is not exciting,” they said at the time, describing how they came to the decision.
'I want me and all of my friends to have access to the same opportunities that every white cisgender male actor has.'
That same year, on the LGBTQ&A podcast, Germaine recalled how her struggles with gender identity go back to her days as a toddler in a conservative town in Illinois.
Germaine - who was born a female in a conservative town in Illinois - shot to fame in 2019 after starring in the Politician as a transgender character who uses his/him pronouns
They are seen here on the set of the Today show in 2022, alongside They/Them co-stars Anna Chlumsky and Kevin Bacon
No other information about their current condition - and the incident that predated it - has been provided. It remains unclear what happened
'I joke and tell people my first memories are The Lion King and gender dysphoria,' they said at the time.
'I remember being three years old and being in daycare and we were all lying down on our mats and trying to nap, and I remember not being able to nap because I would always just sit there and think about gender.'
They now live close to home in Chicago, after moving there from LA in 2019.
According to Germaine's official talent profile, 'When they aren't working, they spend their time learning a new skill, listening to metal, watching Star Trek, or dreaming up new, queer, trans, futures of the entertainment industry.'
No other information about their current condition - and the incident that predated it - has been provided.
