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Michael Emerson is nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a
Drama Series For playing "William Hinks", the psycho
killer on The Practice. And he was great, amazing,
brilliant. But who is Michael Emerson?
He is a stage
actor, well-known for roles on Broadway and on television.
A. J. a producer Director for the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center in Glynco, GA has known Michael Emerson for
years. This is what he had to say about him:
"Michael started his film acting career with us about 12
years ago and worked on about 10 films until he left for New York
5 years ago.
Michael had been a drama professor at a university in
Jacksonville Florida for years. This is going back to the mid
80's and early 90's. He also worked local threatre.
Some of our
other actors who worked with us recommended him to me and I
started using him in our films. We train all the federal Police
in the US except the FBI here at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center. Michael became a member of our actor family
(which consisted of about 30 people because in this area that's
about all the good actors we could find).
He usually played the
same type of role he played on the Practice, that William Hinks
role. The psycho killer. He of course was excellent. But he hated
film acting. He was one of those people who loved the stage and
thought that was the only real form of acting. But to make
money he continued with us.
He is a wonderful, sensitive,
person. Nothing like he plays on the screen. But he has those
"bug eyes" and that evil stare. So I see him playing
lots of "bad guy " roles. He is an actor that could go
far if he gets the right breaks.
This 2001 emmy nomination
should help him a lot. He left Jacksonville about 5 years ago
and headed for New York. He appeared in a one man show about the
life of Oscar Wilde on Off, Off, Broadway.
He he got a big part
in the Iceman Cometh. He stared with Kevin Spacey and Tony Danza.
He received rave reviews for both his plays and I guess
Hollywood was the next logical stop.
The role of William Hinks
on The Practice is very much like the role he played for me in a
Bureau of Prisons film about a suicidal inmate."
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