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Biography - A Short Wiki

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Michael Emerson is an American actor who appears in both films and television shows. He has been active in his acting career since 1986 and is much known for his role as Serial Killer William Hinks in the film The Practice. He has appeared in several other films and has done voice acting as well. His outstanding acting roles have made him the winner of several awards and various nominations.

Career Highlights

Michael Emerson has been very successful throughout the years.

Emerson started his career in 1986 when he was working as a director and teacher for local theatre productions until 1993. He took his first role in a film in 1997 with the role of Oscar Wilde in the play, Gross Indecency. In 1999 he was Willie Oban in the movie Iceman Cometh followed by Give Me Your Answer and Hedda Gabler, which he co-starred with Kate Burton. In 2001 he took a major role in a number of episodes of The Practice. He then started another series in 2006 known as Lost, where he was to play a number of episodes, but he returned in season 3 as the main character.

Family and Personal Life

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Emerson has two marriages. He has not talked much concerning his first marriage and the cause of their separation. He married his second wife, Carrie Preston, in 1988, a fellow actress whom he had met while acting the film Hamlet. He does not talk about his children, which makes him seem to have no children. Apart from acting, he also loves charity works.

Family Information
Wife's/Spouse's NameCarrie Preston (m.1998)
Children/KidsNo
Boyfriend/Girlfriend (Dating)N/A
Civil StatusMarried

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Net Worth, Nationality and Other Facts

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Full/Real NameMichael Emerson
Gender (Biological)Male
Age (as of today)69 years
Date of BirthSeptember 7, 1954
Place of BirthCedar Rapids, Lowa
NationalityAmerican
Height1.73 m, 5 feet 8 inches
Weight76 kg, 167.5 lbs
Net Worth / Wealth$10 million
OccupationActor

Height, Weight, and Age

Michael Emerson's height is pretty average measuring 1.73 m. Michael Emerson weighs 76 kg. Being born on September 7, 1954, translates to an age of 69 years as of todays date (November 19, 2023).

Quotes

I liked dark, urban stories like ‘Peter Gunn,’ which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde.

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I’m the worst at a computer.

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It’s not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had – the rejection of an illustrator’s life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor’s life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

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I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

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This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we’re desperate, if we feel like we’re beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we’re tradesmen.

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