Michael Biehn
American actor
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- He almost didn't get the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) because at his first audition he spoke in a Southern accent. He had just come another audition for a stage production of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" and had not been able to shake the accent, and the producers didn't want the character of Reese to seem regionalized. After calling and talking with Biehn's agent, they gave him another audition and he got the part.
- Children with Marsh: Caelan Michael (b. 1992) and Alexander (b. 19 March 2003).
- In James Cameron's The Terminator (1984), he gets bitten on the hand by another character. He has suffered the same on-screen injury in every James Cameron film he's been in: in The Terminator (1984) he is bitten by Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Aliens (1986) it's Rebecca "Newt" Jorden (Carrie Henn), and in The Abyss (1989) Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Ed Harris) does the honors.
- Has appeared in 5 films with Bill Paxton: The Lords of Discipline (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Navy Seals (1990), and Tombstone (1993).
- Is a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity
- James Cameron considered using him as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which would have been a reversal of the roles Biehn previously had with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original. Eventually, however, Cameron decided against the idea on the basis that it would have been too confusing for the audience.
- Attended the University of Arizona on a drama scholarship. He left school two years early to pursue his career in Hollywood.
- Replaced actor James Remar as Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986).
- Has been in two movies with Ed Harris, in both of which he played a Navy SEAL: The Abyss (1989) and The Rock (1996).
- Was cast as Peter Parker/Spiderman in James Cameron's abandoned "Spiderman" in 1994. The film was deemed too technically challenging at the time, and Cameron opted to make True Lies (1994) instead.
- Said that he didn't get to interact with Arnold Schwarzenegger very much while filming the original The Terminator (1984). Ironically, fans often ask him what it was like to work with Arnold.
- Has played a soldier 10 times in films.
- Is friends with Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox.
- Frequently works with James Cameron.
- Has to turn down the role of McManus in The Usual Suspects (1995) as he was already contracted to William Friedkin's Jade (1995).
- The studio pushed hard for an Academy Award nomination for Biehn as best supporting actor in James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) - an award he ultimately didn't win or even got nominated for.
- A shot of him as Kyle Reese in the movie The Terminator (1984) was reproduced as the cover-art of the video game Metal Gear (1987) (VG). Biehn was chosen as a model as he was then at the peak of his fame, and would be the ideal actor to play Metal Gear's protagonist Solid Snake had Metal Gear been an action movie.
- Children with Carlene Olson: twins, Devon and Taylor, born 1984.
- Cites not being asked to reprise his role as Corporal Dwayne Hicks for the third Alien film as one of the biggest disappointments of his career.
- Surname pronounced "Bean"
- Filmed a cameo in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) fantasizes a meeting with him, but the scene was cut from the theatrical release; it later became available in the director's cut. Biehn said in an interview that he wasn't surprised that the scene was cut, seeing as how it had little to do with the film's overall story.
- Was nominated for best actor at the 1986 "Saturn Awards" for Aliens (1986) and won a special award at the 1989 "Saturn Awards" for The Abyss (1989).
- For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, Girard Swan and Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Partner is actress Jennifer Blanc.