Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironsideis a Canadian actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed sympathetic characters. Ironside is a method actor, who stays in character between filming scenes...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 February 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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.
Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
I basically was a precocious little kid.
I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
I want to make smart television.
It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.