1. Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician.
38 Facts About Michael McKean
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Michael McKean was briefly a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for its 19th and 20th seasons from 1994 to 1995, and played Gibby Fiske in HBO series Dream On.
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Michael McKean has acted in films such as Used Cars, Clue, and The Big Picture, the latter of which he co-wrote.
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Michael McKean is known for having collaborated with Christopher Guest acting in his films such as This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration.
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Michael McKean co-wrote the song "A Mighty Wind", for which he won a Grammy Award, as well as "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from the same film, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Michael McKean was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2019 for his role as Chuck McGill on the AMC series Better Call Saul.
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Michael McKean has acted in shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Grace and Frankie, Breeders, and The Diplomat.
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On stage, Michael McKean made his Broadway debut as Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray.
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Michael McKean took on dual roles portraying J Edgar Hoover and Robert Byrd in the political epic play All the Way.
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Michael McKean has acted in the Broadway plays such as the Tracy Letts play Superior Donuts, the Gore Vidal revival The Best Man, and the Lillian Hellman revival The Little Foxes.
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Michael McKean was born October 17,1947, in New York City at Manhattan Women's Hospital.
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Michael McKean is the son of Ruth Stewart McKean, a librarian, and Gilbert S McKean, one of the founders of Decca Records, and was raised in Sea Cliff, New York, on Long Island.
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Michael McKean is of Irish, English, Scottish, and some German and Dutch descent.
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Michael McKean graduated from North Shore High School in 1965.
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Michael McKean began his career in Pittsburgh while a student at Carnegie Mellon; David Lander was a fellow student at CMU.
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Michael McKean directed one episode, and the characters became something of a phenomenon, even releasing an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979, which featured a young Christopher Guest on guitar.
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Michael McKean played his character in an episode of Happy Days.
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Michael McKean appeared opposite Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper in Flashback.
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Michael McKean appeared in a number of film roles, including the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Coneheads, Airheads, and Radioland Murders.
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Michael McKean had a recurring role on the HBO sketch comedy series, Tracey Takes On.
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Michael McKean reunited with Christopher Guest in Best in Show and appeared in Little Nicky, The Guru, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, and A Mighty Wind, in which The Folksmen are played by the actors who played as Spinal Tap.
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Michael McKean had a regular role as the brassy, heavily made-up bandleader Adrian Van Voorhees in Martin Short's series Primetime Glick.
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Michael McKean did voiceover work as Henry's cousin Louie on Oswald, which coincidentally featured the voice of David Lander as Henry.
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Michael McKean lent his voice to an episode of Kevin Smith's Clerks: The Animated Series that never aired but was included on the VHS and DVD versions of the series.
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Michael McKean played Perry White, who ultimately becomes Clark Kent's boss.
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Also, during his short stint on Saturday Night Live, Michael McKean played Perry White in a Superman spoof.
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Michael McKean appeared in the Christopher Guest comedy A Mighty Wind, co-writing several songs for the film, including the title track, which won the Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media and A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song.
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Michael McKean performed in the Broadway production of Hairspray in 2004.
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Michael McKean co-starred as Hines in a revival of The Pajama Game with Harry Connick, Jr.
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Also in 2006, Michael McKean reunited with most of the cast of A Mighty Wind to film the comedy For Your Consideration and appeared in the play Love Song on the stage in London.
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Michael McKean acted in the pilot episode of a remake of the British series The Thick of It as the chief of staff.
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Michael McKean starred in the 40th anniversary Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, co-starring Ian McShane, Raul Esparza, Eve Best, and James Frain.
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In Summer 2010, Michael McKean took over the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town at the Barrow Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village.
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In 2011, Michael McKean appeared on an episode of Sesame Street as a rock star looking for "rocks" to be in an all ROCK-band.
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In 2012, Michael McKean began performing on Broadway in Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
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Michael McKean appeared in the HBO comedy series Family Tree in 2013.
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In 2014, McKean played J Edgar Hoover in Broadway previews of Robert Schenkkan's Lyndon B Johnson bio-play All the Way, starring Emmy winner Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B Johnson.
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Michael McKean married Susan Russell in 1970, and they had two sons, Colin and Fletcher before divorcing in 1993.