Michael Zelniker is a Canadian-born actor, director, and screenwriter.
He is best known for his performance as Red Rodney in Clint Eastwood's
Academy Award-winning film, Bird (1988) and as Doug Alward in The
Terry Fox Story (1983), for which he won a Genie Award for Best
Supporting Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.Originally from
Montreal, Quebec, Zelniker studied acting and theatre at Dawson
College, Dome Theatre.He also appeared in the films Pinball Summer
(1980), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Heartaches (1981), Bird (1988), Glory
Enough for All (1991), Naked Lunch (1991), Queens Logic
(1991),Mercenary (1996) and Snide and Prejudice (1997), and made guest
appearances in the television series The Littlest Hobo, In the Heat of
the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Profiler, Strong Medicine, The Dead Zone
and Millennium.He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss,
in which he also played the title character. Stuart Bliss was also
produced by Zelniker, and won the Northampton Film Festival's Best of
Fest Award in 1998.
He is best known for his performance as Red Rodney in Clint Eastwood's
Academy Award-winning film, Bird (1988) and as Doug Alward in The
Terry Fox Story (1983), for which he won a Genie Award for Best
Supporting Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.Originally from
Montreal, Quebec, Zelniker studied acting and theatre at Dawson
College, Dome Theatre.He also appeared in the films Pinball Summer
(1980), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Heartaches (1981), Bird (1988), Glory
Enough for All (1991), Naked Lunch (1991), Queens Logic
(1991),Mercenary (1996) and Snide and Prejudice (1997), and made guest
appearances in the television series The Littlest Hobo, In the Heat of
the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Profiler, Strong Medicine, The Dead Zone
and Millennium.He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss,
in which he also played the title character. Stuart Bliss was also
produced by Zelniker, and won the Northampton Film Festival's Best of
Fest Award in 1998.
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