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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. He has worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He gained early widespread recognition for his terrifying portrayal of the deadly psychic Darryl Revok in David Cronenberg's…
Known for
- Marrow — Dr. Jonathan Myers2026
- Ashes — Uncle2026
- 1242: Gateway to the West — Narrator / Mihaly2025
- This Too Shall Pass — Officer Shultz2025
- Talking About the Sky — Officer Alfred Henry(voz)2025
- Late Night with the Devil — The Narrator (voice)2024
- The Jester from Transylvania — Charles Pennington2024
- Confession2023
- BlackBerry — Charles Purdy2023
- The Family Circus — The Cop2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Frederick Reginald Ironside , ( 1950-02-12 ) February 12, 1950 (age 76) , Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouse
- Karen Dinwiddie, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- OCAD University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Michael Ironside WOH-06 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Los Angeles County
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- date of birth
- 1950-02-12
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- name in native language
- Michael Ironside
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- Michael Ironside
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. A prominent character actor with over 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters. He is best known for his roles in action and science fiction films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners.
Ironside's other notable roles include Overdog in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), "Jester" in Top Gun (1986), Richter in Total Recall (1990), and Rasczak in Starship Troopers (1997). His signature deep voice has been lent to various video games and animated television shows, most notably as Sam Fisher in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell franchise and Darkseid in the DC Animated Universe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Ironside” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.