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Michael Emerson, (born 1955), is an American actor on both stage and screen. Emerson was born in Toledo, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa's Drake University, where he earned a degree in Theatre Arts in 1976, he moved to New York City. Unable to find acting work, he took retail jobs and worked as a freelance illustrator. In 1986, he moved with his first wife to Jacksonville, Florida. There, from 1986 to 1993, he acted in local productions. Emerson considered giving up acting in favor of a more stable career as a teacher, but decided to instead find an MFA program that would help introduce him to professionals in theater and a higher grade of directors. In 1993, he enrolled in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's University of Alabama-sponsored Master of Fine Arts/Professional Actor Training program. After graduation, Emerson returned to New York to appear in the annual Alabama Shakespeare Festival showcase.

Continuing to act in regional theater, he finally got his big break in 1997 when he starred as Oscar Wilde in Moises Kaufman's critically-acclaimed off-Broadway play, "Gross Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde."

In the following years, Emerson has continued to act on stage. He has displayed his talents opposite Uma Thurman off-Broadway in "The Misanthrope" in 1998 and as Willie Oban in 1999's "The Iceman Cometh" with Kevin Spacey. He has co-starred with Kate Burton in both "Give Me Your Answer, Do!" and "Hedda Gabler". Emerson also offered a memorable performance as (fictional) confessed serial killer William Hinks in several episodes of "The Practice," for which he won a 2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2006, he played Henry Gale on "Lost."

Divorced once, he married his second wife, actress Carrie Preston, in September of 1998.

Awards

Won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (for playing "William Hinks" on The Practice), 2001

Selected stage and screen credits

Film

The Laramie Project
(as Reverend), (2002)
Saw
(as Zep Hindle), (2004)
The Legend of Zorro
(as Harrigan), (2005)

Television

The Practice (as William Hinks), (2000-2001)
Lost (as Henry Gale), (2006)

Theater

The Importance of Being Earnest
, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 1990
Amadeus
, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 1995
Gross Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde (as Oscar Wilde), Minetta Lane Theatre (off-Broadway), 1997-1998
The Misanthrope, Classic Stage Company, 1998
The Iceman Cometh
(as Willie Oban), Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1999
Give Me Your Answer, Do! (as David Knight), Gramercy Theatre (off-Broadway), 1999-2000
Hedda Gabler
(as George Tesman), Ambassador Theatre, Broadway, 2001-2002
Only the End of the World (as Louis), Theatre 3 (off-Broadway), 2002
Measure for Measure (as Duke Vincentio), Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda, California, 2003
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts, 2004
Hamlet (as Ghost, Claudius, Osric, and Guildenstern), McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, New Jersey, 2005
Bach at Leipzig (as Schott), New York Theatre Workshop, 2005

Other works

Participated in a staged reading of a play (involving string theory) written by Jacquelyn Reingold called, "String Fever," at Rockefeller University in 2003.
The radio play adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story, Murder Mysteries, in which he was the narrator.
The audio book version of James Patterson's novel, Four Blind Mice, which he co-narrated with Peter J. Fernandez.
Private Sector, audiobook of the novel by Brian Haig, which he co-narrated with John Rubinstein
.
Volume III of an audiobook series called Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, which includes a short story by Neil Gaiman.
Narrated audiobook CD of The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright, published in February of 2006.

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