Michael Zelniker

About Michael Zelniker

Who is it?: Actor, Director, Writer
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Occupation: Actor, screenwriter, director
Years active: 1980s-2010s
Spouse(s): Dea Lawrence

Michael Zelniker Net Worth

Michael Zelniker was born, is Actor, Director, Writer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Seymour and Dorothy Zelniker. After graduating from Dawson College's Conservatory Acting School (Dome Theatre), Zelniker re-located to Toronto where he began working in many of Canada's finest theaters, including the National Arts Centre, the St. Lawrence Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Neptune Theatre, Toronto Free Theatre, Factory Theatre Lab, the Globe Theatre and Bathurst Street Theatre. Plays performed in include "American Buffalo", "Henry V", "Mother Courage", "Streamers", "Total Eclipse" and "Stepdance". Zelniker's favorite theatre role is Mozart in "Amadeus" which he performed at the Wool Warehouse Theatre in New Mexico. As his movie and television career began taking off, Zelniker moved to Los Angeles appearing in more than 20 feature films and countless times on television. Some noteworthy starring roles are Red Rodney in Clint Eastwood's "Bird", Allen Ginsberg in David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" and James Bertram Collip in PBS's "Glory Enough For All". He starred opposite Robert Duvall in "The Terry Fox Story", for which he won a Canadian Academy Award (Genie Award), with John Malkovich and Kevin Bacon in "Queen's Logic" and with Christopher Plummer in the ABC mini-series "Crossings". Guest starring on series television such as "Murder She Wrote", "Chicago Hope", "Millennium", "Profiler", "In the Heat of the Night" and "Dead Zone". Zelniker co-wrote, produced and starred in the festival award winning feature, "Stuart Bliss". He also co-wrote, produced, and directed the low budget feature, "Falling...", which won the 2012 Best of Festival Award at Indie Fest USA International Film Festival. It is being distributed by Anderson Digital. While working on a series of one act plays at the Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles, he met actress, Dea Lawrence who two years later became his wife. Their company, Aion Pictures, produces movies and theatre. In 2013, Zelniker began teaching Acting for Film and Technique at the New York Film Academy (NYFA), after teaching and directing at AMDA, College and Conservatory for the Performing Arts from 2004 - 2013.
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Biography/Timeline

1980

He also appeared in the films Pinball Summer (1980), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Heartaches (1981), Bird (1988), Glory Enough for All (1991), Naked Lunch (1991), Queens Logic (1991),Mercenary (1996) and Snide and Prejudice (1997), and made guest appearances in the television series The Littlest Hobo, In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Profiler, Strong Medicine, The Dead Zone and Millennium.

1998

He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss, in which he also played the title character. Stuart Bliss was also produced by Zelniker, and won Northampton Film Festival's Best of Fest Award in 1998.

2012

Zelniker wrote, produced and directed Falling, which won Indie Fest USA International Film Festival's Best of Festival Award in 2012. In 2013 he began teaching acting for film and technique at the Los Angeles Campus of the New York Film Academy after teaching acting for the camera, acting technique and Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy from 2004 to 2013.