Michael J. Anderson (October 31, 1953) is an American actor. He portrayed the Leprechaun Andrew O'Brian on Charmed.
Biography[]
"Michael Anderson was born in Denver, Colorado, at 10:30 P.M., on Halloween night. Subject to a genetic anomaly known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he grew up in a wheelchair. After graduating high school, he traveled America, singing for tips and living in his car. For six years, he attended the University of Colorado where he majored in numerous subjects ranging from philosophy to microbiology. After college, he began working for Martin Marietta, trouble-shooting the N.A.S.A. computers in the ground-support system of the space shuttle. During this time, he made the documentary "Little Mike," which won a silver medal in the International Film and Television Awards. Soon thereafter, he moved to New York City, where his film and television career began. For many years, Anderson was most well-known among fans of director David Lynch for his work as a backwards-talking dream figure on the cult favorite T.V. series Twin Peaks (1990). Anderson also worked with Lynch for the experimental performance piece Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990) and the T.V.-pilot-turned-feature film Mulholland Drive (2001). Anderson gained further recognition and success in recent years for his work on the H.B.O. series Carnivàle (2003)."[1]
Career[]
- Twin Peaks
- Picket Fences
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- The X-Files
- Carnivale
- Charmed
Notes and Trivia[]
- Anderson, Martin Klebba, and Michael Gilden worked together as two of the seven dwarfs in the 2001 movie, Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.
- His biography on the Internet Movie Database claims to be written by Michael J. Anderson himself.
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- ↑ Bio taken word by word from IMDb.