Sean Cameron Michael







Eyes: Blue Hair: Dark Blonde Height: 1.78m
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.
Film Experience
Film | Role | Director / Production Company |
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MASINGA | Jeremiah Mills, Lead | dir. Mark Engels, Impi Films |
A MOMENT | Lead | dir. Robert Dos Santos, Insomnia |
STAY SAFE | Supporting | dir. Miha Mazzini, Umetnisko Ustvarjanje |
ANGELIENA | Supporting | dir. Uga Carlini, Netflix |
FRIED BARRY | Supporting | dir. Ryan Kruger, Shudder, AMC |
A BOEREKRISMIS | Supporting | dir. Willem Grobler, Marche Media, Mnet |
MARITEAM SERVING THE SEAS | Milesh Labonne | dir. Sven Fehrensen, ARD Degeto |
TRIGGERED | Mr Peterson | dir. Alastair Orr, Samuel Goldwyn Films |
LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME | Supporting | dir. Olivier Megaton ,Netflix |
THE LAST VICTIMS | Lead | dir. Maynard Kraak, West 5 Films |
THE MUMMY | Supporting | dir. Alex Kurtzman ,Tom Cruise, Universal |
LAST BROKEN DARKNESS | Lead | dir. Chris dos Santos, Karoo Films |
TEARS IN THE RAIN | Lead | dir. Christopher Harvey ,AM Films |
LEA TO THE RESCUE | Supporting | dir. Nadia Tass,Universal |
THE SALVATION | Supporting | dir. Kristian Levring, Zentropa |
THE CHALLENGER DISASTER | Supporting | dir. James Hawes, BBC Films |
SAFEHOUSE | Supporting | dir. Daniel Espinosa; Universal |
NATALEE HOLLOWAY | Supporting | dir. Mikael Salomon, Sony |
LOST BOYS , THE THIRST | Supporting | dir. Dario Piana, Warner Bros |
INVICTUS | Supporting | dir. Clint Eastwood; Warner Bros |
Television
Series | Role | Director / Production Company |
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FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELDT | Cordell Hull | dir. Malcolm Venville, Film Afrika, History Channel |
CATCH ME A KILLER | Robert Ressler Ep 3,4 | dir. Tracey Larcombe, Kowalski Media, Mnet |
LUDIK (S1) | Arend Brown, Recurring | dir. Ian Gabriel, Netflix |
DIE BYL (S3, S4) | Harold Vermeer | dir. Liesl Spies & Leon Kruger, Marche Media, Kyknet, Showmax |
ROOSEVELT | Senator Aldrich | ROOSEVELT William Finn dir. Malcolm Venville, Radical Media for HISTORY CHANNEL |
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS | Chief Manager (Ep. 5) | dir. Brian Kelly, Slim Film + Television and Federation for BBC |
CARS THAT MADE THE WORLD | US General Palmer | dir Ritesh Gupta, History Channel, Trilogy Creative Studios |
DIE BOEKKLUB S 3 | Richard | dir. Nina Swart, SHOWMAX, Infinity Films |
VAGRANT QUEEN (Ep 9) | Duke | dirs. Jem Garrard, Danishka Esterhazy, Cindy Lee, Blue Ice Pictures, Syfy |
THE DEVIL SPEAKS S2, Ep.6 | Dick Cleveland | dir. Ben Reid, Arrow Media UK |
SPREEUS | Jeremy | dir. Jaco Bouwer, Marche Media |
DEEP STATE 2 | Colonel Russel (Ep 8) | dir: Matthew Parkhill |
DEEP STATE | Recurring | dir. Matthew Parkhill ,Epix |
MACGYVER | Guest Star | dir. Lily Mariye ,CBS |
SHOOTER | Recurring | dir. Simon Jones, Mark Wahlberg.(USA) |
BLOOD DRIVE( Eps. 105, 106,107, 110, 111, 112) | Recurring | dir. Roel Reine,Universal |
SCORPION | Guest Star | dir. Omar Madha, CBS |
CRIMINAL MINDS, BEYOND BORDERS | Guest Star | dir. Laura Belsey,CBS |
BLACK SAILS I and II | Series Regular | dirs. Alik Zakharov, Michael Bay, prod. STARZ |
THIS LIFE (South African version) | Series Regular | dir. Maynaard Kraak, Fremantle |
OF KINGS AND PROPHETS | Recurring | dir. Duane Clark, Romeo Tirone, ABC |
STRIKE BACK | Recurring | dir. MJ Bassett , HBO, Sky |
ORIGINS | Guest Star | dir. Celso Garcia, National Geographic |
24, Redemption (TV movie) | Guest Star | dir. Jon Cassar, Fox,Imagine |
Theatre Experience
Production | Role | Director / Venue |
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Full list available on request | ||
FULL CIRCLE (PANSA award) | Lead | dir. Steven Pillemer; Kalk Bay Theatre |
PILLOW TALK | Lead | dir. Karen Jeynes,Intimate |
MANDELA TRILOGY (Naledi award) | Supporting | dir.Michael Williams, National Tour |
ON THE OPEN ROAD (Vita award) | Supporting | dir. Ilse van Hemert , Tesson Theatre, Civic Theatre |
BABY | Supporting | dir.Alfred Rietmann, Artscape |
VERS and KABARET | Supporting | dir. Alfred Rietmann, Artscape |
Training / Experience
Institution | Qualification |
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Rita Maas Phillips (RADA) | Speech & drama |
Peter Kelley (New York) | Scene Study |
Prof. Pamela Christian | American dialects |
Paul Weber (Los Angeles) | Scene Study |
Joe Bill (Chicago) | Improvisation |
Matt Ryan & Martin Koch | Les Miserables workshop |
Liz Wright & Zandi Casan & Jazz Workshop | Vocal Coaching (lyrical tenor) |
Special Skills
Video Clips
Voice Clips
- Sean Michael - Hard Sell - Remax
- Sean Michael - Soft Sell - Dial Undirect Insurance
- Sean Michael - Straight Read - Corporate Liberty
- Sean C Michael - Corporate Capitec Bank
- Sean C Michael - ACCENT - American Movie Trailer Voice
- Sean C Michael - ACCENT - British Movie Trailer Voice
- Sean C Michael - ACCENT - Standard American, Russian, British RP, Afrikaans, Southern American,
- Sean C Michael - EVERY BREATH
- Sean Michael - Toyota Agya