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Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside (Frederick Reginald Ironside, born 1950) is a Canadian character actor of Scanners, Top Gun, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers fame, also the voice of Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell and Darkseid in Superman: The Animated Series.
Michael J. Anderson
Michael J. Anderson (Michael John Anderson), born 1953, American actor with osteogenesis imperfecta, 3'7" tall; played the backwards-talking Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks, Mr. Roque in Mulholland Drive, and Samson in HBO's Carnivàle; retired from acting in 2014.
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox (born 1961, Edmonton, Alberta), Canadian-American actor known as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future; six-time Emmy winner; founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research in 2000 after his 1991 young-onset Parkinson's diagnosis.
Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard (born Michael John Pollack Jr., 1939-2019) was an American character actor, Oscar-nominated for playing getaway driver C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), also known for Star Trek's 'Miri' and Dirty Little Billy.
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 Jackson (actor)
Michael Jackson, born 1970, in Ottawa, is a Canadian actor and grip known for playing Trevor in Trailer Park Boys and its 2006 film.
Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White, American actor, director, and martial artist; star of Spawn (1997) and Black Dynamite (2009); first African American to play a major comic book superhero on film; black belts in seven karate styles.
Michael Jayston
Michael Jayston (born Michael James, 1935–2024) was an English stage and screen actor, known as Tsar Nicholas II in Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the Valeyard in Doctor Who.
Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter (1952–2003) was an American character actor from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, who won a 1990 Tony for Grand Hotel and a 1992 Emmy for Evening Shade, and played Mr. Noodle's brother on Sesame Street.
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 Kane (actor)
Michael Kane (1922–2007), born Michael Edward Desmond Keane in Montreal, was a Canadian actor in Lonely Are the Brave, The Bedford Incident, Three Days of the Condor, and The Collaborators; distinct from the American screenwriter Michael Kane (1922–2020).
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton, born Michael John Douglas in 1951, is an American actor of Mr. Mom, Beetlejuice, and Batman fame who won a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Birdman and later acclaim for Dopesick.
Michael Kitchen
Michael Kitchen (born 1948, Leicester) is a British actor known for Christopher Foyle in Foyle's War (2002–2015) and film roles in Out of Africa, GoldenEye, and The World Is Not Enough.
Michael Landon
Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936–1991), American actor, writer, director, producer; Little Joe on Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie, Jonathan Smith on Highway to Heaven; died of pancreatic cancer at 54.
Michael Learned
Michael Learned (born 1939) is an American actress, Olivia Walton on CBS's The Waltons (1972–81), winner of four Primetime Emmys for lead actress in a drama, three for The Waltons and one for Nurse (1982).
Michael Lerner (actor)
Michael Lerner (1941-2023), American character actor from Brooklyn, Oscar-nominated as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991); also Eight Men Out, Godzilla, Elf, X-Men: Days of Future Past; distinct from rabbi Michael Lerner.
Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale (Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch, 1931-2020) was a Franco-British character actor of French auteur cinema and the avant-garde, known as Hugo Drax in Moonraker, Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and César-winning Brother Luc in Des hommes et des dieux.
Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen (1957-2025) was an American actor with 300+ credits, famous as Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs and Budd in Kill Bill, a Tarantino regular also known for Free Willy and Donnie Brasco.
Michael Malarkey
Michael Malarkey, also known as Enzo St. John in The Vampire Diaries, is a British-American actor and singer-songwriter born 1983 in Beirut, raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio; starred in Project Blue Book and joined Tracker in 2026 as Adam Shevlin.
Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney (born 1957, Bury St Edmunds) is an English actor of screen, stage and radio, an RSC and National Theatre leading man (Romeo, Prince Hal, Hamlet, Edgar) known for Shakespeare film roles in Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet, and recent TV including The Crown and Magpie Murders.
Michael Mando
Michael Mando (born 1981, Quebec City) is a Canadian actor known as Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul, Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3, Vic Schmidt in Orphan Black, and Scorpion in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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 Massee
Michael Massee (1952–2016) was an American character actor who accidentally shot Brandon Lee on The Crow set in 1993, then played villains in Se7en, Lost Highway, 24, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Michael McElhatton
Michael McElhatton (born 1963, Terenure, Dublin) is an Irish actor, writer, and RADA graduate, best known as Roose Bolton in Game of Thrones, with roles in Chernobyl, Jack Ryan, The Wheel of Time, and House of Guinness. Distinct from the footballers of the same name.
Michael McKean
Michael McKean (born 1947, New York) is an American actor, writer, and musician: Lenny on Laverne & Shirley, David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap, Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul, and a Tony-era Broadway character actor.
Michael Michele
Michael Michele (Michael Michele Williams), American actress born 1966 in Evansville, Indiana; known for Det. Rene Sheppard on Homicide: Life on the Street, Dr. Cleo Finch on ER, and films New Jack City, Ali, Dark Blue, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor and jazz pianist born 1941 in Detroit, won a 1974 Tony for Find Your Way Home, Emmys for The Glass Menagerie, Holocaust, and James Dean, and played ADA Ben Stone on Law & Order 1990-1994.
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 Murphy (actor)
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938, Los Angeles) is an American character actor, a Robert Altman regular (M*A*S*H, Nashville), Yale in Manhattan, and ex-husband of Wendy Crewson; distinct from Navy SEAL Michael P. Murphy.
Michael Nader
Michael Nader (1945–2021), American actor, played Dex Dexter on Dynasty (1983–89) and Count Dimitri Marick on All My Children (1991–2001, 2013 return); also beach-party films, 2001 drug arrest, $32 million ABC lawsuit.