Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

Canadian actor
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Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian voice, film and television actor. He has worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in film 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.

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Michael Ironside was born on Sunday, 12 February 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His full name at birth was Frederick Reginald Ironside. He is best known as an actor. Ironside's country of citizenship (nationality) is Canadian. For university, he studied at Ontario College of Art. He is 5' 10" (178 cm) tall with an average build. He has dark brown eyes and dark brown hair (color). His net worth is reported to be $8,000,000 US dollars. Michael Ironside is 74 years old and his zodiac star sign is Aquarius.

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Frederick Reginald Ironside
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Date of birth
12 February 1950
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Actor, voice actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director, film editor, playwright
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5' 10" (178 cm)
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$8,000,000 USD
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  • Ontario College of Art
  • Riverdale Collegiate Institute
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Partner: Karen Marls Dinwiddie (Married) 1 child
Sep 1986-
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Acting itself is a very childlike thing. You're asked to suspend reality and to play - and what better place than when you're sitting there looking like the most weird villain imaginable? You have all these toys around you. It brings out the child in you much easier than when you're standing around in a suit playing a cop.
  • His brother is a high school shop teacher in his hometown of Toronto, Canada.
  • Moved to Los Angeles, California, USA in 1982.
  • Father of Adrienne Ironside.
  • Has a daughter Findlay (born 1998) by second wife Karen.
  • A talented arm wrestler in his youth, he ironically often loses an arm and / or other limb in his films: Total Recall (1990), Starship Troopers (1997), Maquinista, El (2004) and Guy X (2005). If he hadn't been too bulky he also would have played Murphy in RoboCop (1987), who loses both his arms.

Michael Ironside is known for his role in the TV mini series The Dropout (2022) as Don Lucas.

He is also known for his role in the film Patient Seven (2016) as Dr. Daniel Marcus.

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