Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker is an American actor, best known for his roles as Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger, Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out, Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead, Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy, Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning, Bill Broussard in JFK, and Jared Svenning in Mallrats...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth6 April 1955
CityJasper, AL
CountryUnited States of America
I've always wanted to play a teacher.
It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.
Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.