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Michael Cerveris

Actor

Michael Cerveris

Born November 6, 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA25 films

Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including in several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. He won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins.

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He was called, by Playbill.com, "arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway", playing roles from "Shakespeare's Romeo to The Who's Tommy, from the German transsexual rock diva Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch to the homicidal title character of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd."

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Watchmen: Chapter I posterFirst watchWatchmen: Chapter I20247.4as Jonathan Osterman / Dr. Manhattan / Father (voice)In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.View film

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Ant-Man and the Wasp poster6.9Ant-Man and the Wasp2018The Mexican poster6.0The Mexican2001Stake Land poster6.2Stake Land2010Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant poster5.9Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant2009Watchmen: Chapter II poster7.3Watchmen: Chapter II2024Lulu on the Bridge poster5.9Lulu on the Bridge1998Brief Interviews with Hideous Men poster5.0Brief Interviews with Hideous Men2009

Filmography

25 films as actor
  1. 2026A StatementEdward Strohbehn
  2. 2025Basic PsychStuart Prince
  3. 2024Watchmen: Chapter IIDr. Manhattan / Prison Guard #2 (voice)
  4. 2024Watchmen: Chapter IJonathan Osterman / Dr. Manhattan / Father (voice)
  5. 2024Fun Home: 10th Anniversary Reunion ConcertBruce
  6. 2018Ant-Man and the WaspElihas Starr
  7. 2016DetoursBob O'Connor
  8. 2014Leaving CircadiaReece
  9. 2014Russian Broadway Shut DownVladimir Putin
  10. 2011Stake Land: JebediahJebediah Loven
  11. 2010MeskadaTerrence Lindy
  12. 2010Stake LandJebedia Loven
  13. 2009Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantMr. Tiny
  14. 2009Brief Interviews with Hideous MenSubject #15
  15. 2005PassionGiorgio
  16. 2004TemptationPablo
  17. 2004AssassinsJohn Wilkes Booth
  18. 2001The MexicanFrank
  19. 1998Lulu on the BridgeRestaurant Man #3
  20. 1992A Woman, Her Men, and Her FutonPaul
  21. 1991Rock 'n' Roll High School ForeverEaglebauer
  22. 1991Steel and LaceDaniel Emerson
  23. 1990StrangersJohn Reece
  24. 1988Tokyo PopMike
  25. 1985DoubletakeGary Prine