‘Ugly Betty’ Actor Fatally Stabs His Mother

Michael Brea, an actor who had a part in “Ugly Betty,” repeatedly stabbed and killed his mother with a Freemason ceremonial sword after a bizarre religious diatribe this morning.

Yannick Brea, 55, was found in her second-floor Brooklyn apartment around 2:20 a.m. with multiple stab wounds. Her son, Michael Brea, 31, was taken into custody and then to Kings County Hospital, where he is undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

Cops were called to a domestic disturbance at the home earlier in the evening but left shortly thereafter. Neighbors Vernal Bent and his mother Phyllis said they heard yelling from the floor below between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. and called 911.

“I heard a shriek and a woman yelling ‘help me’,” Vernal Bent said. “We called 911 and we kept hearing screams and then we didn’t hear them any more. Michael was chanting Biblical phrases and kept calling for Moses, Jerusalem and the ‘architect of the universe’.”

Police spent nearly 45 minutes trying to get into the apartment, Bent said. They left and returned with an emergency team, which broke into the home and found Yannick Brea fatally stabbed in a bedroom, sources said.

Phyllis, who refused to give her last name, said she was friends with Yannick and that the woman would frequently bring them traditional Haitian food.

She once worked at the Marriott at the World Trade Center but didn’t work again after the hotel was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, neighbors said.

“I think he just snapped,” Bent said.

Michael’s twin brother Marcel, a physical trainer, went to the hospital this morning with a friend. Charges against Brea are pending.

Cops said Brea has had a small role in the recent movie “Step Up 3D.”

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‘Ugly Betty’ Actor Fatally Stabs His Mother

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