1. Michael Emerson is an American actor who is best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost and as Harold Finch in the CBS series Person of Interest.
17 Facts About Michael Emerson
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Michael Emerson has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one Guest Actor in a Drama Series award for portraying William Hinks on The Practice, and the second a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award for his role in Lost, for which he received three other Primetime Emmy nominations.
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Michael Emerson graduated in 1976 from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he majored in theater and minored in art.
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Michael Emerson studied for a semester at the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, then moved to New York City.
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Michael Emerson landed a starring role in 1997 as Oscar Wilde in Moises Kaufman's critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and then followed up with several other notable stage performances.
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In September 2001, Michael Emerson won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing serial killer William Hinks in several episodes of The Practice.
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In 2006, Michael Emerson began a guest-star role as Benjamin Linus on the serial drama television series Lost.
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Michael Emerson was originally set to appear in a small number of episodes, then returned for Season 3 as a main cast member and eventually became a main antagonist of the program.
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Michael Emerson received an Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category in 2007 and 2008 for his work in the third and fourth seasons.
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Michael Emerson won the award in 2009 after being nominated for his role in the fifth season.
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Michael Emerson was nominated in 2009 for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role category.
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Michael Emerson was nominated for an Emmy for each season in which he was listed in the main cast.
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Michael Emerson was set to reunite with former Lost cast member and friend Terry O'Quinn in a comedy-drama, tentatively titled Odd Jobs, by JJ Abrams.
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Michael Emerson joined the cast of another Abrams series, Person of Interest, that debuted in September 2011 on CBS.
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Michael Emerson played a billionaire who teams up with a supposedly dead CIA agent to fight crime in New York City.
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Michael Emerson married actress Carrie Preston in 1998 in her hometown of Macon, Georgia.
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In 2024, Michael Emerson appeared alongside Preston in Elsbeth where Preston stars in the title role.