Michael was born is Scotland and moved to Los Angeles in 1989 where he began his career as a young actor studying with internationallly famous teacher Larry Moss.

He has performed in some of the most well known theatres in the UK and the USA.

Some of the roles for which he has gained critical attention include Rodolfo in A View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller, Bill in The Collection by Harold Pinter, Lvov in Ivanov by Anton Chekov,  Joe in Golden Boy by Clifford Odets, Michael in Les Parent Terrible by Jean Cocteau, Christofer in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore and George in Epitaph for George Dillon directed by Larry Moss in New York City.

His Film and Television work allowed him the privilege of working with actors such as Jack Lemmon, Mathew Broderick, Angelina Jolie, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Minnie Driver, Rufus Sewell, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Rickman, Rob Lowe, Jason Isaacs, Timothy Hutton, David Caruso, Jimmy Smits, Luke Perry, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Willem Dafoe, Greg Kinnear, Kristen Bell, Sara Paulson, Giancarlo Giannini and directors Roland Emmerich, Paul Schrader, Michael Christofer, Bryan Singer,  Dean Devlin , Jasmine Trinca, Emile Hirsch and most recently completed a feature film playing the husband of Anna Foglietta in Il trafficante di Virus due out in October.