Michael Ironside
Gender: Male
Born: 12th February 1950 (currently 62 years old)
Nationality: Canada
TV programs: SeaQuest DSV, Justice League, Superman: The Animated Series, V, The Final Battle, Nuremberg, The Bannen Way, Wolverine and the X-Men, Young Blades, Ice Planet, Lake Placid 3, The Veteran
Movies: Children of the Corn: Revelation, Free Willy, Heavy Metal 2000, Highlander II: The Quickening, Jett Jackson: The Movie, Major Payne, Scanners, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Starship Troopers, The Next Karate Kid, Total Recall, Watchers, Top Gun, McBain, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, Prom Night II, Visiting Hours, The Alphabet Killer, Deepwater, The Machinist, Reeker, Guncrazy, Down, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, The Omega Code, The Vagrant, Night Trap, Bolt, Ivory Tower, Chaindance, Nowhere to Hide, Soulkeeper, The Killing Man, The V Word, The Veteran, Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York, Forced to Kill, Southern Cross, Maximum Velocity, Mindstorm, Dead Awake, Extreme Honor, Beyond Redemption, Guy X, Surveillance, Terminator Salvation, The Cap, Captive, Extreme Prejudice, Terror in the Aisles, Bloodsuckers, Hardwired, Killer Image, The Perfect Storm, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, The Arrow, The Glass Shield, Ignition, Father Hood, Cause of Death, Terminal, Desert Blue, The Falcon and the Snowman, Black Ice, High-Ballin', Deadly Companion, 1st Bite, Tokyo Cowboy, The Red Phone: Manhunt, The Butcher, Storm Cell, The Terrorist Next Door, Sweet Killing, Beneath the Blue, Fallen Angels, Mutants, Kids of the Round Table, Lake Placid 3, Wolverine and the X-Men: Vol. 5: Revelation, Eva, Wolverine and the X-Men: Vol. 1: Heroes Return Trilogy, Fortunes of War, Probable Cause, Thunderground, American Nightmare, Portraits Of A Killer, Nowhere to Hide, The Bannen Way, Liberty, He's Been Hypnotized, Spin, California Winter, Synchronicity, Transgression, The Beacon, Conduct Unbecoming, Blood Money, Save Me
Michael Ironside (born Frederick Reginald Ironside, February 12, 1950) is 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 takes.
Ironside was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Robert Walter Ironside and Patricia June Passmore. His father was a street lighting technician, and his mother a homemaker.
Ironside attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and wrote a play at the age of 15, The Shelter, which won the first prize in a university contest. He also won the Senior writing award for Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1967.
In a January 2010 interview, Ironside stated in response to a question about his many roles in science fiction movies that he has always been a big fan of science fiction and often received science fiction short story collections from his grandfather that he kept in a shoebox under his bed. He stated that his favourite science fiction novels are Dune by Frank
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