Michael Chiklis
Michael Chiklis
Michael Charles Chiklisis an American actor, director, and television producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He is also known for playing Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish, The Thing in the Fantastic Four film series, and Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama No Ordinary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth30 August 1963
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.
I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,
He didn't want to travel like the others. He had a career as a working actor in Los Angeles.
I hoped that academy voters weren't swayed by the dogma that was being thrown around. Fortunately, they weren't.
He oversaw the production from a distance. He had casting approval, and script approval. So he acted as the big man on the mountain.
When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.
I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.
I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.
This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.
It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.