I basically was a precocious little kid.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
I had my first play produced when I was 14; it was my way of competing in the neighborhood I grew up in, a sort of tough neighborhood.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
I want to make smart television.
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
I'm not a big fan of television; I've had a hard time over the years because I think the quality of the writing sort of starts to deteriorate.
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
Michael uses the "method" style of acting.
Michael was the executive producer of the TV movie Probable Cause (1994).
In 1989, Michael was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor for: One Boy, One Wolf, One Summer.
In 2003, Michael was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for The Last Chapter II: The War Continues.
Michael has supplied the voiceovers for the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation and World Wildlife Foundation commercials.
Michael appeared in the stage play Look Back in Anger in the 1990's.
Michael's brother is a high school shop teacher in his hometown of Toronto, Canada.
Michael supplies the voice for "Sam Fisher" in the
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