Michael Paré — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

Michael Kevin Paré (born October 9, 1958) is an American actor. His first leading role was Tony Villicana in the television series The Greatest American Hero. His best-known film roles are Eddie Wilson in Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) and its sequel Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989), as well as Tom Cody in Streets of Fire (1984), David Herdeg in The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), Frank McGowan in Village of the Damned (1995), Bill Pruitt in Hope Floats (1998), (adult) Trip Fontaine in The Virgin Suicides (2000), Detective Kurlen in Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Lieutenant Ray Bozman in Gone (2012) with Amanda Seyfried, Mr. Wallington in Bone Tomahawk (2015), and Varney in City of Lies (2018).

His best-known television roles are Tony Villicana in The Greatest American Hero, Joey La Fiamma in the CBS drama Houston Knights, and Dante Montana in the Canadian science fiction series Starhunter (2000–2001) and its sequel Starhunter ReduX (2018–2019).

He won the award for Best Actor at the PollyGrind Film Festival for reprising the role of Tom Cody in Road to Hell.

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Filmography

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Interesting facts

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At the age of 5, Michael lost his father: he died of leukemia.
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The actor was the eighth child in the family. His mother is Irish, his father is Canadian of French descent.
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In his youth, the future actor showed an interest in cooking - first he was a cook, and then he enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York. When he moved to New York, Michael worked for some time at the famous restaurant "Green Tavern." To this day, cooking is one of the actor's hobbies.
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Full name - Michael Kevin Paré.
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Michael Paré got into movies by chance: he began his career as a model, and his photograph fell into the hands of producers Joyce Selznick and Ian McCormick. They became interested in the handsome young man and invited him to play the lead role in the series "The Greatest American Hero."