- Born
- Birth nameMichael Kempisty
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- In 1973, Michael was born in Ohio and grew up with an eclectic mixture of art, athletics, music, and theatre. In high school, he was inducted into the National Honor Society, won the Westerville Art League Scholarship, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, the Quill & Scroll Journalism Award, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, and was inducted into Who's Who in American High Schools in 1991.
He attended Columbus College of Art & Design on scholarship and studied theatre at The Ohio State University. While at OSU, he won the Gerald Black Theatre Scholarship and the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle Award.
In the late 1990s, he moved to California, where his acting work earned him a nomination at the Los Angeles Robby Awards and an honorable mention at the Back Stage West Garland Awards. Since 2006, he's worked as an IATSE Union Box Office clerk at Center Theatre Group.
His abstract art has placed him as a finalist in The Artist's Magazine. His portrait art is among the private estates of Kirk Douglas, Angela Lansbury, Barry Humphries, Cicely Tyson, Terry Gilliam, Phylicia Rashad, John Leguizamo, and Sting.
Through the years, he's also served his time on Mother Earth as an activist, bartender, courier, dancer, director, janitor, masseur, Mensan, model, musician, producer, short-order cook, singer, stagehand, stuntman, and writer.
After raising two children, he now lives in California, where he enjoys making art when he's not making his family crazy.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
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