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Michael Angarano
Michael Angarano, full name Michael Anthony Angarano, is an American actor and director born in 1987, a child star of Almost Famous and Sky High who earned an Emmy nomination for This Is Us.
Michael Angelis
Michael Angelis (1944-2020) was an English actor, Chrissie Todd in Boys from the Blackstuff, Lucien in The Liver Birds, and the longest-running narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1992-2012), succeeding Ringo Starr.
Michael Ansara
Michael George Ansara (1922–2013) was a Syrian-born American actor best known as Cochise in Broken Arrow and the Klingon Kang in three Star Trek series.
Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan (Michael Bakari Jordan), American actor, producer, and director born 1987 in Santa Ana, California; known for The Wire, Fruitvale Station, the Creed series, Black Panther, and his 2026 Best Actor Oscar for Sinners.
Michael Bailey Smith
Michael Bailey Smith (born 1957, Alpena, Michigan) is an American actor, a former 82nd Airborne paratrooper and Dallas Cowboys free agent, known for Super Freddy, Belthazor and Shax on Charmed, and Ben Grimm in the unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four.
Michael Bates (actor)
Michael Hammond Bates (1920-1978), British actor born in Jhansi, India; Gurkha major in WWII; known for Patton's Montgomery, A Clockwork Orange's Chief Guard, Last of the Summer Wine's Blamire, and Rangi Ram in It Ain't Half Hot Mum; distinct from Alan Bates.
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 Beck
Michael Beck (John Michael Beck Taylor, born 1949) is an American actor known as Swan in The Warriors (1979) and Sonny Malone in Xanadu (1980), later a TV and audiobook narrator.
Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn (born 1956, Anniston, Alabama) is an American actor known as Kyle Reese in The Terminator, Corporal Hicks in Aliens, and Lt. Coffey in The Abyss, all James Cameron films, plus Tombstone, The Rock, and The Mandalorian.
Michael Boatman
Michael Boatman (born 1964) is an American actor and writer known for Carter Heywood on Spin City, Samuel Beckett on China Beach, Stanley Babson on Arli$$, and Julius Cain on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
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 Brandon
Michael Brandon (born Michael Feldman, 1945, Brooklyn) is an American actor known for Dempsey and Makepeace, Jerry Springer: The Opera (Olivier nomination), and narrating Thomas & Friends.
Michael Buscemi
Michael Buscemi (born 1960, Brooklyn) is an American actor, writer, and director, younger brother of Steve Buscemi; known for Trees Lounge, BlacKkKlansman, Nurse Jackie as God, and Park Bench.
Michael Byrne (actor)
Michael Byrne (1943–2026), British character actor; played Colonel Ernst Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, elderly Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Peter Guillam in Smiley's People, and Ted Page in Coronation Street.
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 Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 1933) is a retired English actor of over 70 years, two Best Supporting Actor Oscars (Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules), BAFTA Fellowship and knighthood in 2000, retired October 2023.
Michael Callan
Michael Callan (born Martin Harris Calinieff, 1935–2022), also billed Mickey Calin, was an American actor and dancer who originated Riff in the original Broadway West Side Story, signed with Columbia Pictures, and starred in Cat Ballou and the sitcom Occasional Wife.
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 Cera
Michael Cera (born 1988) is a Canadian actor from Brampton, Ontario, known as George-Michael Bluth on Arrested Development and for Superbad, Juno, Scott Pilgrim, Barbie, Broadway work, and music.
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 Chiklis
Michael Chiklis (born 1963, Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American actor known as Vic Mackey on The Shield, Tony Scali on The Commish, and the Thing in Fantastic Four; Emmy and Golden Globe winner.
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 Clarke Duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan (1957–2012), American actor, Oscar-nominated as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999); also Armageddon, Daredevil's Kingpin, voice of Kung Fu Panda; died after a July 2012 heart attack.
Michael Cole (actor)
Michael Cole (1940-2024), American actor, played Pete Cochran on ABC's The Mod Squad (1968-73), later Harlan Barrett on General Hospital and Henry Bowers in It; distinct from the WWE commentator and the children's TV writer of the same name.
Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad (1925–1983), American character actor and Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues, two-time Emmy winner (1981, 1982) whose roll-call catchphrase "Let's be careful out there" became famous; also Nate Scarboro in The Longest Yard.
Michael Constantine
Michael Constantine (Constantine Joanides), 1927–2021, American character actor of Greek descent; Emmy-winning principal on Room 222 and Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its 2016 sequel.
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 Craig (actor)
Michael Craig, the professional name of Michael Francis Gregson, is a British actor and screenwriter known for 1950s and 1960s Rank films and the Australian series G.P.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford (Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, born 1942), English actor and singer, OBE, original Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (London 1986, Broadway 1988, Tony Award) and 2025 Kennedy Center Honoree.
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.