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Michael Emerson

ACTOR · BORN 1954

Michael Emerson

Born
7 September 1954
Known for
Evil (2019), My Adventures with Superman (2023)

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Michael Emerson (born 7 September 1954) is an actor best known for Evil and My Adventures with Superman.

10 Interesting Facts About Michael Emerson

Interesting Facts (6)

  1. #001

    Emerson was drawn to Malvolio because he recognized the comic potential in the language, and the part "put the hook in me."

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    Emerson said it clicked for him at the first table read for Hamlet, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving at 9 a.m., when Preston's voice carried across a huge circular table and caught his attention.

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  3. #003

    Before they met, Preston had watched Emerson take on 7 roles in a production of A Christmas Carol, setting them apart with blackened teeth, comic wigs and shifts in dialect.

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  4. #004

    Emerson traces his run of villainous parts to his fondness for stillness, focus and ambiguity in a character.

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  5. #005

    Emerson observed that Lost's writers sometimes plant material without indicating whether it will lead anywhere, and that the payoff can take a long time to arrive.

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  6. #006

    His wife's cell phone carries a special ringtone for him, a sample of House of Pain's "Jump Around," which she finds amusing because the song is so at odds with his personality.

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Career & Awards (1)

  1. #007

    Emerson remembered buses arriving from New Orleans, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Florida during the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's repertory years, and ranked it among the top 5 festivals of its time, along with Utah and Oregon.

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Life & Family (3)

  1. #008

    In Lost (2004), he played Ben Linus, whose father Roger was portrayed by Jon Gries, a man 3 years Emerson's junior. The gap makes sense since Roger appears only in flashbacks to Ben's birth and early years. Ben's mother was played by Carrie Preston, who is likewise younger than Emerson and, in real life, his wife.

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  2. #009

    For the Alabama Shakespeare Festival website, Michael Emerson picked Malvolio's monologue from Twelfth Night because it was the first Shakespeare role he played, at Drake University in 1975.

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  3. #010

    Emerson and his sister pooled their allowance to buy the Beatles' Rubber Soul, though he concedes that their next purchase was a Herman's Hermits record.

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