Michael C. Flessas (born June 2, 1959 in Miami, Florida), is the birth
name of American actor Michael Flessas, who is of Greek ancestry.
Flessas' most notable film role was Angry Man in the Cannes Film
Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film Dancer in the Dark directed by
Danish film director Lars von Trier. Originally, the director himself
considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to
Flessas. Dancer in the Dark starred Icelandic singer/actress Björk
who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role. French film
icon, César Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Catherine
Deneuve, and other noteworthy artists such as Academy Award and Tony
Award winner Joel Grey, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Stellan
Skarsgård also performed in the multiple prize winning film. One of
Björk's songs for the film received an Academy Award nomination for
Best Song.In Iranian actress/director Susan Taslimi's film Hus i
helvete (The film's English title: All Hell Let Loose), starring
Melinda Kinnaman, which won the Best Feature Film prize at the
Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2003, Flessas played the
vicious pornographer "Videomannen" in a nightmarish flashback scene in
the film.Flessas also portrayed massive and deadly Russian hitman
"Jurij Rostoff" in Beck - Okänd avsändare, a made for television
movie directed by Swedish actor and director Harald Hamrell. Beck -
Okänd avsändare was among the popular Swedish Beck detective films
and made-for-television movies starring Swedish actor Peter Haber. As
"Jurij Rostoff" Flessas weighed in at 150 kilos in the role as a
result of weight training and diet; however, in his younger and less
heavy years, Flessas danced in the corps de ballet of the Columbia
City Ballet then under the direction of Ann Brodie in Columbia, South
Carolina.Although he won two scholarships in Music, Flessas changed
majors and majored in Religious Studies and minored in Philosophy at
the University of South Carolina. Flessas did not complete his
undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina yet he
continued his studies on an informal basis with travels around the
world in order to meet and speak with adherents of various religious
forms and philosophical points of view.
name of American actor Michael Flessas, who is of Greek ancestry.
Flessas' most notable film role was Angry Man in the Cannes Film
Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film Dancer in the Dark directed by
Danish film director Lars von Trier. Originally, the director himself
considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to
Flessas. Dancer in the Dark starred Icelandic singer/actress Björk
who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role. French film
icon, César Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Catherine
Deneuve, and other noteworthy artists such as Academy Award and Tony
Award winner Joel Grey, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Stellan
Skarsgård also performed in the multiple prize winning film. One of
Björk's songs for the film received an Academy Award nomination for
Best Song.In Iranian actress/director Susan Taslimi's film Hus i
helvete (The film's English title: All Hell Let Loose), starring
Melinda Kinnaman, which won the Best Feature Film prize at the
Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2003, Flessas played the
vicious pornographer "Videomannen" in a nightmarish flashback scene in
the film.Flessas also portrayed massive and deadly Russian hitman
"Jurij Rostoff" in Beck - Okänd avsändare, a made for television
movie directed by Swedish actor and director Harald Hamrell. Beck -
Okänd avsändare was among the popular Swedish Beck detective films
and made-for-television movies starring Swedish actor Peter Haber. As
"Jurij Rostoff" Flessas weighed in at 150 kilos in the role as a
result of weight training and diet; however, in his younger and less
heavy years, Flessas danced in the corps de ballet of the Columbia
City Ballet then under the direction of Ann Brodie in Columbia, South
Carolina.Although he won two scholarships in Music, Flessas changed
majors and majored in Religious Studies and minored in Philosophy at
the University of South Carolina. Flessas did not complete his
undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina yet he
continued his studies on an informal basis with travels around the
world in order to meet and speak with adherents of various religious
forms and philosophical points of view.
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