Biographies: Michael Ironside - Actor

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A Canadian actor, born on February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Canada. His father is a street lighting worker and his mother is a housewife. He is of English, Irish and Scottish descent. He is one of five children who attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. At the age of fifteen he wrote a play, The Shelter . which won first prize in a university competition. He also received the Senior Writing Award at Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1967. He moved to Los Angeles, California, USA in 1982 and took acting lessons from Janine Manatis. He studied for three years at the Canadian National Film Board. His works: Starship Troopers (1997), The Machinist (2004) and Guy X (2005) and many others .