Sean Cameron Michael

With a career spanning over three decades, South African-born actor Sean Cameron Michael is today regarded as one of Africa's most successful exports. Michael has performed leading and supporting roles in over one hundred television and film productions and has worked with some of the top actors, directors and producers in the world today, including Sir Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Ryan Reynolds, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, William Hurt and Michael Bay. He first gained international exposure in Dean Devlin's Emmy-winning The Triangle (2005) , as well as Fox's multi-Emmy and Golden Globe nominated feature 24 (2008). Over 12 million viewers tuned in for the premiere. Career highlights include working opposite Oscar-winner William Hurt in BBC Films' Royal Television Society's award-winning feature The Challenger (2013) and playing the supporting role of Lester (alongside Mads Mikkelsen, Jonathan Pryce and Eva Green) in Zentropa / Universal's western The Salvation (2014) for director Kristian Levring. In 2014/2015 Michael played the series regular role of Richard Guthrie in two season's of Michael Bay's hit pirate series Black Sails (2014) on Starz. He was considered for an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a SAG award, two years in a row for his portrayal. In 2015 he became a permanent US resident, joined SAG-Aftra and relocated to Los Angeles. Since then he has guest starred opposite Gary Sinise in Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016) (CBS), Of Kings and Prophets (2016) (ABC), as well as the lead villain role of Shane Copley in CBS' Scorpion (2014) opposite Robert Patrick. In 2017 Michael played the lead role in the multi award-winning Blade Runner short tribute film Tears in the Rain (2017) which won him the Jury and Audience Best Actor Award at the SciFi Underground Film Festival in Munich, Germany and the Red Corner Film Festival in Russia. Later that year he went on to win Best Performance by an Actor at the Boston SciFi Film Festival for his lead protagonist role of Sam in the feature film Broken Darkness (2017). Michael recently recurred on the Mark Wahlberg-produced Shooter (2016) (USA), Blood Drive (2017) (SyFy) and MacGyver (2016) (CBS). He was then seen on the big screen in Universal's reboot of The Mummy (2017) (opposite Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe) grossing over $400M worldwide. In February 2019 he will be seen playing the lead role of Dawid in the political thriller The Last Victims (2019) premiering at the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, as well as The Last Days of American Crime (Netflix) and recurring on Deep State (2018) (Epix). He is also attached as a lead in the new AST film franchise for Kristrún Entertainment. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Publicist