Sean Cameron Michael

AWARDS

South African Film & Television Awards (SAFTA) - Nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film: Fried Barry
South Film & Arts Academy (Chile) - Winner: Best Supporting Actor (Short Film) Stay Safe
South Film & Arts Academy (Chile) - Winner: Best Lead Actor (Feature Film) The Last Victims
Rapid Lion Film Festival - Nominated: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Feature Film) The Last Victims
Boston SciFi Film Festival - Winner: Best Performance by an Actor (Feature Film) Last Broken Darkness
Underground Film Festival (Germany) / Red Corner Film Festival (Russia) - Winner: Best Actor (Short Film) Tears in the Rain
Kinsale Shark Awards (Ireland) - Winner: Best Performance (Short Film) It’s Complicated
 

Over the past three decades, South African-born veteran actor Sean Cameron Michael has performed in over 100 local and international TV and film productions and 30 theatre productions (including the Vita award-winning On the open Road opposite David Minnaar and Marius Weyers, as well as the Fleur du Cap award-winning national tour of The Mandela Trilogy.)

He first gained international exposure in Dean Devlin´s Emmy-winning series The Triangle, as well as Fox´s multi-Emmy and Golden Globe nominated feature 24: Redemption (opposite Kiefer Sutherland). He was also a series regular on two seasons of the hit pirate series Black Sails (Starz) where he was considered for an Emmy and SAG award for his portrayal.

Career highlights include working opposite Oscar-winner William Hurt in BBC Films´ The Challenger Disaster, playing the supporting role of Lester (opposite Mads Mikkelsen) in Universal´s The Salvation, the multi award-winning Tears in the Rain, Last Broken Darkness and more recently The Last Victims which had its world premiere in LA at PAFF and opened the Rapid Lion International Film Festival where he was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He then went on to win Best Lead Actor at the South Film & Arts Academy in Chile for his portrayal.

Since relocating to Los Angeles over five years ago, where he was awarded an extraordinary ability green card, Michael guest starred and recurred on a number of hit shows including MacGyver (CBS), Shooter (USA), Of Kings & Prophets (ABC), Criminal Minds (CBS), Blood Drive (SyFy), Deep State (Fox/Epix) and CBS´ Scorpion opposite Robert Patrick. He also starred opposite Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe in Universal’s The Mummy which grossed over $450M worldwide.

Michael recently co-wrote and exec produced the Netflix Original feature Collision and is attached as a lead to the AST film franchise for Kristrún Entertainment.

He is also a proud member and regular judge for the American Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (The Emmys) and the International Emmy Awards.