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Michael Chernus
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Name Michael Chernus
Memorable Works Men in Black 3
Character Ian

Michael Chernus is an american actor who portrays Paul on the NBC show, The New Normal.

Career[]

Also an accomplished stage actor, Michael won a 2011 OBIE Award and received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for his performance in Lisa Kron's "In the Wake" at The Public Theater in New York City. On stage, he most recently co-starred with David Hyde Pierce in the Manhattan Theater Club production of "Close Up Space" at New York City Center. Other New York credits include such theaters as Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, New York Theater Workshop, The Atlantic Theater Company, and many productions at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (where he played the lead role of "KJ" in Annie Baker's play "The Aliens," which Charles Isherwood, of the New York Times, named the best play of 2010). His credits in regional theater include productions at the Williamstown Theater Festival, The Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Guthrie Theater, among others. Internationally, he appeared in Adam Rapp's "Finer Noble Gases" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Fringe First Award) and in London at the Bush Theatre. Michael is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 28).

Filmography[]

TV[]

  • Bored to Death
  • Mercy
  • Damages
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • The Big C
  • The New Normal

Film[]

  • Winter Passing
  • Lovely by Surprise
  • High Street Plumbing
  • Feed the Fish
  • The Messenger
  • The Rebound
  • Coach
  • Split
  • NoNAMES
  • Love and Other Drugs
  • Higher Ground
  • The Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia
  • Jack and Diane
  • Men in Black 3
  • The Bourne Legacy
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