1. Michael Jeter won a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
23 Facts About Michael Jeter
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Michael Jeter portrayed Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994.
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Michael Jeter studied at Memphis State University and later pursued a career in acting.
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Michael Jeter gained fame for his roles in The Fisher King and The Green Mile.
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Michael Jeter appeared on Sesame Street's Elmo's World as the other Mister Noodle from 2000 to 2003.
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Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee on August 26,1952.
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Michael Jeter's mother, Virginia, was a housewife.
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Michael Jeter's father, William Claud Jeter, was a dentist.
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Michael Jeter had one brother, William, and four sisters, Virginia, Amanda, Emily, and Lori.
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Michael Jeter was a student at Memphis State University when his interests changed from medicine to acting.
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Michael Jeter performed in several plays and musicals at the Circuit Theatre and its partner theatre, the Playhouse on the Square, in midtown Memphis.
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Michael Jeter left Memphis to further pursue his stage career in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Michael Jeter's woebegone look, extreme flexibility, and high energy led Tommy Tune to cast him in the off-Broadway play Cloud 9 in 1981.
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Occasionally, Michael Jeter was able to stray from type for more diverse characters, such as those he portrayed in Jurassic Park III, Air Bud, and Open Range.
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Michael Jeter is perhaps most known for his role as convicted felon Eduard Delacroix in The Green Mile, a role for which he was nominated along with the rest of the cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Michael Jeter played Mr Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle, on Sesame Street from 2000 to 2003.
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Michael Jeter appeared in an episode of Touched by an Angel in 1999 as Gus, an insurance salesman who arrives in Las Vegas, in the episode "The Man Upstairs".
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Michael Jeter was gay and met his partner Sean Blue in 1995; they were together until Michael Jeter's death in 2003.
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Michael Jeter was HIV-positive and disclosed his diagnosis in a 1997 interview on Entertainment Tonight.
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Michael Jeter announced while accepting his 1990 Tony that he had recovered from substance abuse.
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On March 30,2003, Michael Jeter was found dead by Blue at his home in Hollywood Hills, California.
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Blue said that Michael Jeter died of complications after an epileptic seizure.
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Michael Jeter was cremated, and his ashes were given to charity.