Michael Zelniker
Actor

Michael Zelniker Net Worth

Michael Zelniker is a Canadian actor, director, and writer born in Montreal, Quebec. He has worked in many of Canada's finest theaters, including the National Arts Centre, the St. Lawrence Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Neptune Theatre, Toronto Free Theatre, Factory Theatre Lab, the Globe Theatre and Bathurst Street Theatre. Zelniker has starred in many films and television shows, including Clint Eastwood's "Bird", David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch", PBS's "Glory Enough For All", "Murder She Wrote", "Chicago Hope", "Millennium", "Profiler", "In the Heat of the Night" and "Dead Zone". He won a Canadian Academy Award (Genie Award) for his role in "The Terry Fox Story". Zelniker co-wrote, produced and starred in the festival award winning feature, "Stuart Bliss" and co-wrote, produced, and directed the low budget feature, "Falling...". He currently teaches Acting for Film and Technique at the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and runs a production company, Aion Pictures, with his wife, Dea Lawrence.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Director, Writer
Birth Place American
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Occupation Actor, screenwriter, director
Years active 1980s-2010s
Spouse(s) Dea Lawrence

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1980

He also appeared in the films Pinball Summer (1980), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Heartaches (1981), Bird (1988), Glory Enough for All (1991), Naked Lunch (1991), Queens Logic (1991),Mercenary (1996) and Snide and Prejudice (1997), and made guest appearances in the television series The Littlest Hobo, In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Profiler, Strong Medicine, The Dead Zone and Millennium.

1998

He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss, in which he also played the title character. Stuart Bliss was also produced by Zelniker, and won Northampton Film Festival's Best of Fest Award in 1998.

2012

Zelniker wrote, produced and directed Falling, which won Indie Fest USA International Film Festival's Best of Festival Award in 2012. In 2013 he began teaching acting for film and technique at the Los Angeles Campus of the New York Film Academy after teaching acting for the camera, acting technique and Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy from 2004 to 2013.

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