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Occupation
  
Actor

Siblings
  
Ken Lerner

Years active
  
1969–present

Nieces
  
Jenny Lerner

Name
  
Michael Lerner

Nephews
  
Sam Lerner

Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
June 22, 1941 (age 83) (
1941-06-22
)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Alma mater
  
Brooklyn CollegeLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Relatives
  
Ken Lerner (brother)Sam Lerner (nephew)

Parents
  
George Lerner, Blanche Lerner

Movies
  
Mirror Mirror, Barton Fink, Godzilla, Ashby, The Postman Always Ri

Similar People
  
Todd Solondz, Ken Lerner, Bob Rafelson, Nathan Lane, Shirley Henderson

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Michael Lerner (born June 22, 1941) is an American character actor in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Barton Fink (1991).

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Life and career

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Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Romanian Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in the Bensonhurst and Red Hook neighborhoods. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor, as is his nephew, Sam Lerner.

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After graduating from Brooklyn College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Lerner began his acting career in the late 1960s at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. At the age of 24 he appeared as "Hieronymous the Miser" in a KPFA radio production of Michel de Ghelderode's Breugelesque play, Red Magic.

During the seventies, Lerner began making several guest appearances in television shows such as The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple and M*A*S*M*A*S*H. He appeared in three episodes of The Rockford Files. In 1974, he appeared in the teleplay The Missiles of October, playing Pierre Salinger.

In 1970, Lerner made his film debut in Alex in Wonderland. He then went on to appear in supporting roles in various Hollywood movies such as The Candidate, St. Ives and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice. In 1991, after co-starring in Harlem Nights, Lerner played film producer Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Lerner's later projects include the Christmas comedy Elf and Poster Boy, as well as appearing in television programs such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Entourage.

In 2002, he appeared in London's West End production of Up for Grabs with Madonna. Michael also appeared on BBC Radio Four in 2008 as a member of the cast of David Quantick's Radio Four's series One. He portrayed Senator Brickman in the Marvel Comics/Twentieth Century Fox film, X-Men: Days of Future Past.

In 2013, Lerner appeared in a Season 4 episode of Glee as Sidney Greene, an investor in the revival of Broadway musical Funny Girl. His character is on the panel of judges, watching the Rachel Berry character audition for the lead role. He reprised his role as Sidney in Season 5 in several New York-based episodes of the series, as Funny Girl opens on Broadway.

His favorite actor is the late Edward G. Robinson.

References

Michael Lerner (actor) Wikipedia


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