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Michael D. Cohen (actor)

Michael D. Cohen is a Canadian actor known as Schwoz Schwartz on Nickelodeon's Henry Danger and Danger Force. He transitioned in 2000, disclosed it in a 2019 Time interview, and coaches acting and advocates for trans youth.

Michael Dante

Michael Dante (born Ralph Viti, 1931) is an American actor, author, and former baseball player known for Westbound, The Naked Kiss, the title role in Winterhawk, Crazy Horse on Custer, and Maab in Star Trek's Friday's Child.

Michael Dapaah

Michael Dapaah (born 1991) is a British comedian, actor, and creator of Big Shaq, whose 2017 parody grime freestyle "Man's Not Hot" peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.

Michael DeLorenzo

Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959, Bronx) is an American actor, director, and musician known as Detective Eddie Torres on New York Undercover and Carlos Santiago on Resurrection Blvd., formerly a professional ballet dancer and Fame film principal dancer.

Michael Des Barres

Michael Des Barres (born 1948) is an English actor and glam rock singer: Silverhead and Detective frontman, Power Station touring vocalist in 1985, co-writer of Animotion's "Obsession", and Murdoc on MacGyver.

Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born 1944), American actor and producer, son of Kirk Douglas; Oscar-winning producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Best Actor winner as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.

Michael Dudikoff

Michael Dudikoff, American actor born 1954 in Redondo Beach, California, star of Cannon Films' American Ninja (1985) as Joe Armstrong, also Bachelor Party, Platoon Leader, Cobra; no martial arts training before casting; now restores old homes.

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 Easton

Michael Easton (born 1967) is an Irish-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. Not the composer or other namesakes: played Tanner Scofield, Caleb Morley, John McBain, Silas Clay, and Hamilton Finn across Days of Our Lives, Port Charles, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.

Michael Eklund

Michael Eklund is a Canadian film and television actor, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, known for playing dark, often villainous roles, including the killer in The Call (2013).

Michael Elphick

Michael Elphick (Michael John Elphick, 1946–2002) was an English actor known for the ITV series Boon, EastEnders' Harry Slater, and films including The Elephant Man, Withnail and I, and The Element of Crime.

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 Epp

Michael Epp (born 1983, Konstanz) is a German-British actor trained at HB Studio New York, known for The Beekeeper, The Brutalist, Secret Invasion, Jack Ryan, and as Hauptkommissar David Acosta in ARD's Galicien-Krimi.

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 Fassbender

Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor born 1977 in Heidelberg and raised in Killarney, Ireland; known as Bobby Sands in Hunger, Magneto in X-Men, and Steve Jobs; two Oscar nominations, Volpi Cup winner, married to Alicia Vikander.

Michael Fielding

Michael Fielding (Mike Fielding), born 1982 in London, is a British comedian and actor, brother of Noel Fielding. He played Naboo the Enigma in The Mighty Boosh, Smooth in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, and Benny Turpin in Dick Turpin.

Michael Gambon

Sir Michael Gambon (1940-2023), Irish-born British stage and screen actor, Dumbledore in six Harry Potter films, star of The Singing Detective, three Olivier Awards, four BAFTAs, knighted 1998.

Michael Gladis

Michael Gladis (Michael James Gladis), American actor born 1977 in Houston, Texas; best known as Paul Kinsey on Mad Men, with recurring roles in Eagleheart, Reckless, Feed the Beast, and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels; married to Beth Behrs.

Michael Gough

Michael Gough (Francis Michael Gough, 1916-1917 to 2011), English character actor; Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films, Hammer horror villain, 1979 Tony winner for Bedroom Farce.

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 Greyeyes

Michael Greyeyes, Plains Cree (Nêhiyaw) actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan; former National Ballet of Canada dancer, founder of Signal Theatre, known for Sitting Bull in Woman Walks Ahead, Rutherford Falls, Blood Quantum, and a 2021 Canadian Screen Award.

Michael Gross (actor)

Michael Edward Gross (born 1947, Chicago) is an American actor known as Steven Keaton on Family Ties (1982-89) and Burt Gummer in the Tremors films; Yale School of Drama MFA, UIC alumnus, distinct from the writer Michael Gross.

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 Hitchcock

Michael Hitchcock (born 1958, Defiance, Ohio) is an American comedic actor, writer, and producer: Groundlings alumnus, Hamilton Swan in Best in Show, MADtv and Glee writer-producer, now in The Lowdown and Nobody Wants This. Not the film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Michael Hogan (Canadian actor)

Michael Hogan (born 1949, Kirkland Lake, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, Genie Award winner, and husband of actress Susan Hogan, known as Colonel Saul Tigh in Battlestar Galactica and as the voice of General Tullius in Skyrim and Doc Mitchell in Fallout: New Vegas; he suffered a serious brain injury in a 2020 fall.

Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), English stage, film, television and radio actor; famed for King Lear, Prospero, Jacob Marley in Scrooge, narrating Barry Lyndon and voicing Paddington Bear; CBE 1972, knighted 1983.

Michael Horse

Michael Horse, American actor born 1949 or 1951, played Deputy Hawk in Twin Peaks (1990-91, 2017), Tonto in The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and is an award-winning Yaqui jeweler and ledger artist.

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 Imperioli

Michael Imperioli (James Michael Imperioli), American actor born 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York; Emmy-winning Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, Spider in Goodfellas, Dominic in The White Lotus, also writer, director, and Zopa frontman.

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.