Michael Wincott

Birthday: 21 January 1958, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name: Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott

Height: 175 cm

Over more than thirty years, Michael Wincott has gained the reputation of a respected and uncompromising actor. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, he eventually moved to New York City where he graduated fr ...Show More

[about his working relationship with Anthony Hopkins on Hitchcock (2012) ] He's been just a remarkab Show more [about his working relationship with Anthony Hopkins on Hitchcock (2012) ] He's been just a remarkable human being and I think, once again in my experience, that the remarkably talented are also... it's because they are remarkable people. Hide

It's not what's underfoot but in your veins. My father was a working man. He did all manner of thing Show more It's not what's underfoot but in your veins. My father was a working man. He did all manner of things to house and feed his wife and three boys: sold encyclopedias, insurance, was a steamfitter. One day, at thirty-four years of age, on a construction site in twenty below zero, he decided to change his life. He labored by day and, two or three nights a week, placed his safety helmet in a locker at a University. Two degrees later, he became a teacher. He taught me determination and the value of literature and humour. My mother spent Sundays making ravioli by hand. She taught me patience, refinement and the value of one's passions. Of the three sons, I was the only one allowed into the kitchen. She wasn't fond of people around her there. For her it was a sacred place, spending hours rolling the dough, mixing the filling, making the circles of pasta with the open end of a cup. When we'd, at last, sit at the table, the first mouthful seemed like proof of the divine. Sundays were sublime. Hide

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to Show more You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad. The guy I'm playing in Metro (1997) thinks of himself as a responsible and nice guy, since he is taking care of his retarded cousin. That is what I try to keep in mind, when I'm shooting and stabbing people. Hide

It's good to dress well. Elegance expresses greater expectations of life. The current culture of slo Show more It's good to dress well. Elegance expresses greater expectations of life. The current culture of slovenliness conveys a spiritual and intellectual surrender. Hide

Michael Wincott's FILMOGRAPHY

as Actor (54)

Along Came a Spider

The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) [Sub: Eng]

The Littlest Hobo - Season 2

What Just Happened

An American Christmas Carol

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Westworld - Season 3

The Littlest Hobo - Season 5

Westworld - Season 2

The Crow

The Equalizer - Season 4

Forsaken

Westworld - Season 1

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Dead Man

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Westworld - Season 4

Miami Vice - Season 3

Miami Vice - Season 4

Night Heat - Season 2

The Equalizer - Season 3

Nope

The Littlest Hobo - Season 4

The Littlest Hobo - Season 6

The Count Of Monte Cristo

Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Michael Wincott'S roles

Gary Soneji

Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Top Dollar

Philo Gant

Adrian de Moxica

Conway Twill

Armand Dorleac

Sal

Herb

Scroop

Michael Korda

Old Bill

Hayes

Heberto Zorilla Ochoa

Frank Elgyn

Tynan

Matthew

Ed Gein

Paul Rothchild

Rochefort