Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huismanis a Dutch actor, musician, and singer-songwriter, who has acted in both Dutch and English-language TV series and films. His roles include Ellis Jones in the fantasy romance film The Age of Adaline, Sonny on the television series Tremeand Daario Naharis on Game of Thrones. Huisman played recurring roles on television as Liam McGuinnis on Nashvilleand as Cal Morrison on Orphan Black...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 July 1981
CityAmstelveen, Netherlands
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.
Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.
To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.
I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.
The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.
I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
Stepping on set is always overwhelming.
I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.