Michael recently completed filming the role of Bran Donovan in Irish Blood for Deadpan Pictures/Acorn TV. He also wrapped filming on the Hallmark feature Reluctant Royal as Jeffers, This Is Not a Murder Mystery as Superintendent Coney, and the role of Lawrence Langner in the feature film Blue Moon for Sony Pictures, directed by Richard Linklater.
Other recent screen credits include the role of Laurence Cavendish in the detective series Harry Wild alongside Jane Seymour, Nigel in Verdigris, Maurice Blennerhasset in Dead Still for Deadpan Pictures, Nigel Fitzjames in the second series of the RTÉ legal drama Striking Out, the role of Crouch in Declan Reck’s feature film The Flag, the RTÉ series Bridget and Eamon, the role of Sir Leonard Figg in Charlie, directed by Kenny Glenaan for RTÉ/Touchpaper, Penny Dreadful for Showtime, Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie, and Julian Jarrold’s Becoming Jane.
On stage, Michael was last seen as Scrooge in his own adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Viking Theatre and The K Club. He also appeared as Harold Pinter opposite Barry McGovern’s Samuel Beckett in the Bewley’s Café Theatre production of Stumped.
Other recent stage roles include Creon in X’ntigone for Prime Cut at MAC Theatre Belfast and the Abbey Theatre and Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at The Mill Theatre Dundrum. Additionally, Michael portrayed Frank in a revival of The Lyric Theatre’s production of Educating Rita, directed by Emma Jordan, which toured Ireland in 2017. Prior to that, he appeared in the role of Gratiano in the Abbey Theatre’s production of Othello, directed by Joe Dowling. Further theatre credits include the Gate Theatre’s production of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Wayne Jordan, Verdant Productions’ Borstal Boy, directed by Conall Morrison at the Gaiety Theatre, and the Lyric Theatre’s production of How Many Miles to Babylon.
Michael is also an experienced voiceover artist (commercial and radio drama).
Michael is based in Dublin.
