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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 Kirkbride

Michael Kirkbride (born 1972) is an American game writer, artist, and designer, ex-Bethesda Elder Scrolls loremaster behind Morrowind's 36 Lessons of Vivec and the Dragon Break, later lead writer on Telltale's Walking Dead and Immortals of Aveum.

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 Koman

Michael Koman (born 1977, San Diego) is an American TV writer and producer, Emmy winner for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, co-creator of Nathan for You with Nathan Fielder, creator of Eagleheart and The Paper, and husband of Ellie Kemper.

Michael Kovach

Michael James Kovach (kovox), American voice actor born 1995 in Youngstown, Ohio, based in Seattle; voices Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel pilot), N (Murder Drones), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), and Rocky (Lackadaisy), plus Poppy Playtime game roles.

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 Lembeck

Michael Lembeck (born 1948), American TV and film director and actor, son of Harvey Lembeck; won a 1996 Emmy for Friends and directed The Santa Clause 2, distinct from the aerospace engineer of the same name.

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 Lindsay-Hogg

Michael Lindsay-Hogg (born 1940, New York City; 5th Baronet since 1999) is an American director of Beatles and Rolling Stones music videos, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, the Beatles documentary Let It Be (1970), Brideshead Revisited, and Broadway plays, later a painter and memoirist in Hudson, New York.

Michael Lohan

Michael Lohan (born 1960, Syosset, New York) is an American TV personality and former Wall Street commodities trader, father of Lindsay Lohan; Celebrity Rehab cast member with extensive Florida legal record, distinct from his actor son and IDA Ireland's CEO.

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 Mann

Michael Mann: American film director and Chicago native; creator of Thief, Manhunter, Miami Vice, and Heat (1995); Emmy and DGA winner; pioneered HD digital cinematography; directed Ferrari at 80.

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 Miu (苗侨伟)

Michael Miu (苗僑偉, born 1958, Zhoushan, Zhejiang) is a Hong Kong TVB actor and businessman, one of the 1980s "Five Tigers", famous as Yang Kang in the 1983 Legend of the Condor Heroes; founder of Art Vision Optical, returned in The Academy (2005) and Line Walker.

Michael Mohan

Michael Mohan (born 1986, Boston) is an American director and screenwriter of One Too Many Mornings, Save the Date, Everything Sucks!, The Voyeurs, and Immaculate, moving from Sundance indies to erotic thrillers and horror.

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.

Michael Newman (actor)

Michael Newman (April 26, 1957 – October 20, 2024), also Mike "Newmie" Newman, American actor, real LA County lifeguard and firefighter; played a fictionalized self in 150 Baywatch episodes (1989–2000), the only cast member with real lifeguarding experience.

Michael Nouri

Michael Nouri (born 1945, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor of Irish-Iraqi descent, known as Nick Hurley in Flashdance (1983), Tom Beck in The Hidden, Eli David on NCIS, and Broadway roles in Victor/Victoria and South Pacific.