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Michael Beach
Michael Anthony Beach, American actor born 1963 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Juilliard graduate known for Al Boulet on ER, Doc Parker on Third Watch, Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food, Mayor of Kingstown, and Tulsa King.
Michael Bradway
Michael Bradway (born 1998) is an American actor, Jack Damon on Chicago Fire and Charlie Florek in Prime Video's Every Year After (2026); distinct from NFL executive Mike Bradway of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Michael C. Hall
Michael C. Hall (Michael Carlyle Hall), American actor born 1971 in Raleigh, North Carolina, known for Six Feet Under's David Fisher and Dexter Morgan, plus Broadway roles, Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, and 2010 Golden Globe and SAG wins.
Michael Cassidy (actor)
Michael Cassidy, American actor born 1983 in Portland, Oregon; played Zach Stevens on The O.C., Tyler Mitchell on Men at Work, Grant Gabriel on Smallville, and Jimmy Olsen in Batman v Superman.
Michael Cerveris
Michael Cerveris (born 1960, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American actor and singer-guitarist. Two-time Tony winner (Assassins 2004, Fun Home 2015), Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy (1993), known on TV as September the Observer in Fringe, and a musician with solo albums Dog Eared and Piety and the band Loose Cattle.
Michael Cimino (actor)
Michael Cimino (born 1999, Las Vegas) is an American actor and singer, not the Deer Hunter director. Known for Love, Victor (Victor Salazar, Imagen Award winner), Hamster & Gretel, and Annabelle Comes Home.
Michael Copon
Michael Sowell Copon (born 1982, Chesapeake, Virginia) is an American actor and producer, the Blue Time Force Ranger Lucas Kendall in Power Rangers Time Force (2001) and Felix Taggaro on One Tree Hill, later starring as Mathayus in The Scorpion King 2.
Michael Cudlitz
Michael Cudlitz (born 1964) is an American actor and director known as Bull Randleman in Band of Brothers, John Cooper in Southland (2013 Critics' Choice Award), and Abraham Ford in The Walking Dead; later Lex Luthor in Superman & Lois.
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy (Michael Brown, born 1973, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American actor and producer known for Barbershop, Sleeper Cell, Think Like a Man, Reasonable Doubt, and playing Malcolm X in The Greatest.
Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson (born 1954, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American actor and two-time Emmy winner, known as Ben Linus on Lost, Harold Finch on Person of Interest, and Leland Townsend on Evil; a stage-trained character actor married to actress Carrie Preston.
Michael Evans Behling
Michael Evans Behling (born 1996) is an American actor from Columbus, Indiana, best known as Jordan Baker on The CW's All American (2018-2026, 127 episodes), with credits on Empire, Grey's Anatomy, and A Cinderella Story: Starstruck.
Michael Graziadei
Michael Graziadei (born 1979, Germany) is an American actor, also credited as Michael A. Graziadei, known for Daniel Romalotti Jr. on The Young and the Restless (2004–2013, 2022–) and roles in True Detective, American Horror Story, and The Lincoln Lawyer; four-time Daytime Emmy nominee.
Michael Harney
Michael Harney (Michael J. Harney) is an American character actor from the Bronx, trained in the Meisner tradition, known for Sam Healy in Orange Is the New Black, Detective Mike Roberts in NYPD Blue, Deadwood, and Project Blue Book. Distinct from the Harney & Sons tea master Michael D. Harney.
Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt (Charlene Hyatt), British-born Jamaican-descent actress (born 1970, Birmingham), known as Brianna Barksdale on The Wire, Cissy Saint on Snowfall (2017-2023), and Dr. Akopian on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Howard University and NYU Tisch trained, daughter of actor Charles Hyatt.
Michael Irby
Michael Clinton Irby (born 1972, Palm Springs, California) is an American character actor known as Bishop in Mayans M.C., Cristobal Sifuentes in Barry, and Charles Grey in The Unit.
Michael Jace
Michael Jace (born 1962, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American former actor, Julien Lowe on The Shield (FX, 2002-08), also in Forrest Gump and as Michael Jordan on TV; convicted of second-degree murder of his wife April in 2016, sentenced to 40 years to life.
Michael K. Williams
Michael K. Williams (Michael Kenneth Williams, 1966–2021) was an American actor from Brooklyn, famed as Omar Little on The Wire and Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, a five-time Emmy nominee and ACLU activist who died of an accidental fentanyl-laced heroin overdose in 2021.
Michael Mantenuto
Michael Mantenuto (1981–2017) was an American actor, University of Maine hockey player, and Army Special Forces sergeant, best known as Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney film Miracle; he later served with the 1st Special Forces Group and died by suicide in 2017.
Michael Muhney
Michael Muhney (born 1975, Chicago) is an American actor known as Sheriff Don Lamb in Veronica Mars (2004–2007) and Adam Newman on The Young and the Restless (2009–2014), fired in 2013 amid groping allegations, later in Truth Be Told.
Michael Peña
Michael Peña (born 1976, Chicago) is a Mexican-American actor known for Crash, World Trade Center, End of Watch, The Martian, Ant-Man's Luis, and Narcos: Mexico's Kiki Camarena.
Michael Pitt
Michael Pitt (born 1981) is an American actor, model, and musician known for indie films Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Dreamers, Last Days, and Funny Games, plus Jimmy Darmody in Boardwalk Empire; distinct from any assistant director of the same name.
Michael Raymond-James
Michael Raymond-James (born Michael Weverstad, 1977, Detroit) is an American actor known for René Lenier in True Blood, Britt Pollack in Terriers, and Neal Cassidy/Baelfire in Once Upon a Time, now playing Joe Colombo in Godfather of Harlem.
Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born 1972, Oceanside, New York) is an American actor and podcaster, the Lex Luthor of Smallville (2001–2008) and the voice of Wally West/The Flash in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, also known for Guardians of the Galaxy's Martinex and the Inside of You podcast.
Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born 1974, Lexington, Kentucky) is an American actor, co-founder of Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, twice Oscar-nominated for Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, known for Take Shelter, Boardwalk Empire, and The Shape of Water, and director of Eric LaRue.
Michael Stahl-David
Michael Stahl-David (born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor known for Rob Hawkins in Cloverfield (2008), Sean Donnelly in The Black Donnellys, Chris Feistl in Narcos, and Off-Broadway stage work.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stuhlbarg (born 1968) is an American actor known for A Serious Man, Boardwalk Empire's Arnold Rothstein, Call Me by Your Name, and Emmy-nominated roles in The Looming Tower and Dopesick.
Michael Trevino
Michael Trevino (born 1985, Montebello, California) is an American actor known as Tyler Lockwood on The Vampire Diaries (2009-17) and Kyle Valenti on Roswell, New Mexico (2019-22); married Bregje Heinen in 2025.
Michael Trucco
Michael Trucco (Edward Michael Trucco, born 1970, San Mateo, California) is an American actor known for Samuel T. Anders on Battlestar Galactica, Justin Patrick on Fairly Legal, and Mike Flanagan roles in Hush, Midnight Mass, House of Usher, and Carrie.
Michael Urie
Michael Urie (born 1980, Dallas) is an American actor and director known as Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, star of Buyer & Cellar, Broadway's Once Upon a Mattress and Torch Song, and Emmy-nominated Brian in Apple TV+'s Shrinking.
Michael V. Epps
Michael V. Epps, also known as MIKEY or MIKE, is a Chicago actor who played Jake Taylor on Showtime's The Chi (2018-2026, 85 episodes), distinct from comedian Mike Epps; also a rapper, model, and founder of Crown Me clothing.