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 Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two years later to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. His first big role was as a psychotic fan stalking Lauren Bacall in The Fan (1981) and later appeared in The Lords of Discipline (1983). He hit the big-time when he was cast as Kyle Reese, the man sent back through time to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron's The Terminator (1984). This established a good working relationship with Cameron, a relationship that should have catapulted Biehn to international stardom. He starred in Cameron's subsequent films, Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), the latter a standout performance as unstable Navy SEAL officer Lt. Hiram Coffey. In the 1990s he starred in films like Navy Seals (1990), K2 (1991) and was particularly memorable as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993). Biehn is married and the father of five sons.
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Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two years later to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. His first big role was as a psychotic fan stalking Lauren Bacall in The Fan (1981) and later appeared in The Lords of Discipline (1983). He hit the big-time when he was cast as Kyle Reese, the man sent back through time to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron's The Terminator (1984). This established a good working relationship with Cameron, a relationship that should have catapulted Biehn to international stardom. He starred in Cameron's subsequent films, Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), the latter a standout performance as unstable Navy SEAL officer Lt. Hiram Coffey. In the 1990s he starred in films like Navy Seals (1990), K2 (1991) and was particularly memorable as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993). Biehn is married and the father of five sons.
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Of all the films he has done, his favorite is Tombstone (1993).Cites not being asked to reprise his role as Corporal Dwayne Hicks for Alien3 (1992) as one of the biggest disappointments of his career.In James Cameron's The Terminator (1984), he gets bitten on the hand by another character. He has suffered the same on-screen injury in every James Cameron film he has been in: in The Terminator (1984) he is bitten by Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Aliens (1986) Rebecca "Newt" Jorden (Carrie Henn) does the same thing, and in The Abyss (1989) Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Ed Harris) does the honors. This was alluding to him being bitten on the hand in James Cameron's version of Spider-Man.Has stated in interviews that his favorite roles were Johnny Ringo and Kyle Reese.James Cameron considered using him as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which would have been a reversal of the roles Biehn previously had with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original. However, Cameron eventually decided against the idea on the basis that it would have been too confusing for the audience.His acting teacher was the late Lauren Bacall.He almost did not get the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) because at his first audition he spoke in a Southern accent. He had just come another audition for a stage production of "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" and had not been able to shake the accent, and the producers did not want the character Kyle Reese to seem regionalized. After calling and talking with Biehn's agent, they gave him another audition and he got the role.Has appeared in five films with Bill Paxton: The Lords of Discipline (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Navy Seals (1990) and Tombstone (1993). They are also good friends.Has played a Navy SEAL three times: The Abyss (1989), Navy Seals (1990) and The Rock (1996).For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, Girard Swan and Leonardo DiCaprio.His top five actors are: 1. Sean Penn 2. Denzel Washington 3. Johnny Depp 4. Jeff Bridges 5. Ed Harris.Filmed a cameo in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) fantasizes a meeting with him, but the scene was cut from the theatrical release; it later became available in the director's edition. Biehn said in an interview that he was not surprised that the scene was cut, seeing as how it had little to do with the film's overall story.He named his favorite films as The Lost Weekend (1945), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Taxi Driver (1976) and Unforgiven (1992).Became a father for the fifth time. He has a son named Dashiell King Biehn (born March 21, 2015). Child's mother is his girlfriend/partner Jennifer Blanc-Biehn.Replaced actor James Remar as Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986).Surname pronounced "Bean".He was considered for the role of Caledon Hockley in Titanic (1997) and even met with James Cameron for the role, but ultimately the role went to Billy Zane. Biehn and Zane appeared together in Tombstone (1993) and Susan's Plan (1998).The studio pushed hard for an Academy Award nomination for Biehn as Best Supporting Actor in The Abyss (1989) - an award he ultimately did not win or even got nominated for.In his two most famous roles (as Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) and Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986)), he is injured towards the film's ending and has the film's heroine help him to walk.He was considered for the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon (1987).Has appeared in two films with Ed Harris, in both of which he played a Navy SEAL: The Abyss (1989) and The Rock (1996).A shot of him as Kyle Reese in the movie The Terminator (1984) was reproduced as the cover-art of the video game Metal Gear (1987). Biehn was chosen as a model as he was then at the peak of his fame, and would be the ideal actor to play Metal Gear's protagonist Solid Snake had Metal Gear been an action movie.He auditioned for the lead role in Dredd (2012), but lost out to Karl Urban.Has two children with Carlene Olson: twin boys, Devon and Taylor Biehn (born 1984).He was considered for Patrick Swayze's roles in Next of Kin (1989) and Point Break (1991).He was considered for the role of Jack Traven in Speed (1994) that went to Keanu Reeves.He was considered for Kurt Russell's roles in Tango & Cash (1989) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).Was nominated at the 1986 Saturn Awards for Best Actor in Aliens (1986), won the Special Award at the 1989 Saturn Awards for The Abyss (1989), and won the Lifetime Career Award at the 2011 Saturn Awards.He was considered for the role of Jonathan Kent in Man of Steel (2013), which went to Kevin Costner.Said that he did not get to interact with Arnold Schwarzenegger very much while filming The Terminator (1984). Ironically, fans often ask him what it was like to work with Arnold.He was considered for the role of John Nada in They Live (1988) that went to Roddy Piper.Partner is actress Jennifer Blanc-Biehn.He was considered for the role of Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which went to Stephen Lang.In November 2003, he began filming in New York a project called 'Amerikanets' ("The American"), directed by cult Russian director Aleksey Balabanov, with Aleksey Chadov and Viktor Sukhorukov rounding out the cast. The thriller involved a US investment banker, named Nick McGuire, making an unauthorized investment in a Russian pulp mill. When the deal turns sour, he travels to Siberia to uncover the mystery. According to Balabanov, filming in New York went smoothly, but when the crew moved to Noril'sk, Northern Siberia, Biehn started drinking vodka heavily. After four days of filming, the production relocated to Irkutsk, Central Siberia where, again according to the Russian director, Biehn would drank himself to a stupor. Balabanov refused to continue filming, and the project was canceled.Neill Blomkamp asked him to audition for the role that went to Sigourney Weaver in Chappie (2015); he originally envisioned that role to be male, but then changed his mind.Has two sons with ex-wife Gina Marsh: Caelan Biehn and Alexander Biehn.Has played basketball in high school and is shown playing basketball in three of his films: Coach (1978), Grease (1978) and The Art of War (2000).He originally read for the role of Tom Chisum in Grease (1978), but lost out to Lorenzo Lamas. He did get a much smaller role in the film.He stated in an interview that making Navy Seals (1990) was "probably the worst experience of my life".He was considered for the role of Jerome Talget in The Grey (2011), which went to Dermot Mulroney.Edward James Olmos seriously considered him for the role of JD in American Me (1992), but William Forsythe got the role in the end.His ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Scottish and Bohemian (Czech).He declined to audition for the role of McManus in The Usual Suspects (1995). The role went to Stephen Baldwin.He was considered for the role of Van Stretch in Internal Affairs (1990) that went to William Baldwin.Attended the University of Arizona on a drama scholarship. He left school two years early to pursue his career in Hollywood.During an August 2011 interview, he revealed he has a "bottom five" of movies he was in: Navy Seals (1990), Deadfall (1993), Dead Men Can't Dance (1997), Chain of Command (2000) and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001).At Cannes 1998 it was announced that he was going to play ailing porn-star John Holmes in "Wonderland," the story of the grisly 1981 murders of four people on Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Tim Daly was set to co-star, while Nick Vallelonga would have directed from a script by Todd Samovitz and D. Loriston Scott. Shooting was set for Fall of the same year in Los Angeles, but it happened only 4 years later with a different cast led by Val Kilmer, who took the role of Holmes. James Cox, the new director, reworked the original script together with Captain Mauzner.His characters are frequently killed or seriously injured: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), The Fan (1981), Mojave Moon (1996), The Rock (1996), Cherry Falls (2000), Tombstone (1993), Chain of Command (2000), Jade (1995), The Art of War (2000), Bereavement (2010), Stiletto (2008), The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015), Dragon Heat (2005), Planet Terror (2007), Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001), A Taste for Killing (1992), Navy Seals (1990), The Victim (2011), Sushi Girl (2012), Streets of Blood (2009) and the list goes on.He was considered for the lead role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which went to Tom Hardy.Friends with Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox. |
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Michael Biehn |
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Actor,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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| Biography: |
Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to |
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Of all the films he has done, his favorite is Tombstone (1993).Cites not being asked to reprise his role as Corporal Dwayne Hicks for Alien3 (1992) as one of the biggest disappointments of his career.In James Cameron's The Terminator (1984), he gets bitten on the hand by another character. He has suffered the same on-screen injury in every James Cameron film he has been in: in The Terminator (1984) he is bitten by Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Aliens (1986) Rebecca "Newt" Jorden (Carrie Henn) does the same thing, and in The Abyss (1989) Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Ed Harris) does the honors. This was alluding to him being bitten on the hand in James Cameron's version of Spider-Man.Has stated in interviews that his favorite roles were Johnny Ringo and Kyle Reese.James Cameron considered using him as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which would have been a reversal of the roles Biehn previously had with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original. However, Cameron eventually decided against the idea on the basis that it would have been too confusing for the audience.His acting teacher was the late Lauren Bacall.He almost did not get the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) because at his first audition he spoke in a Southern accent. He had just come another audition for a stage production of "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" and had not been able to shake the accent, and the producers did not want the character Kyle Reese to seem regionalized. After calling and talking with Biehn's agent, they gave him another audition and he got the role.Has appeared in five films with Bill Paxton: The Lords of Discipline (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Navy Seals (1990) and Tombstone (1993). They are also good friends.Has played a Navy SEAL three times: The Abyss (1989), Navy Seals (1990) and The Rock (1996).For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, Girard Swan and Leonardo DiCaprio.His top five actors are: 1. Sean Penn 2. Denzel Washington 3. Johnny Depp 4. Jeff Bridges 5. Ed Harris.Filmed a cameo in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) fantasizes a meeting with him, but the scene was cut from the theatrical release; it later became available in the director's edition. Biehn said in an interview that he was not surprised that the scene was cut, seeing as how it had little to do with the film's overall story.He named his favorite films as The Lost Weekend (1945), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Taxi Driver (1976) and Unforgiven (1992).Became a father for the fifth time. He has a son named Dashiell King Biehn (born March 21, 2015). Child's mother is his girlfriend/partner Jennifer Blanc-Biehn.Replaced actor James Remar as Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986).Surname pronounced "Bean".He was considered for the role of Caledon Hockley in Titanic (1997) and even met with James Cameron for the role, but ultimately the role went to Billy Zane. Biehn and Zane appeared together in Tombstone (1993) and Susan's Plan (1998).The studio pushed hard for an Academy Award nomination for Biehn as Best Supporting Actor in The Abyss (1989) - an award he ultimately did not win or even got nominated for.In his two most famous roles (as Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) and Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986)), he is injured towards the film's ending and has the film's heroine help him to walk.He was considered for the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon (1987).Has appeared in two films with Ed Harris, in both of which he played a Navy SEAL: The Abyss (1989) and The Rock (1996).A shot of him as Kyle Reese in the movie The Terminator (1984) was reproduced as the cover-art of the video game Metal Gear (1987). Biehn was chosen as a model as he was then at the peak of his fame, and would be the ideal actor to play Metal Gear's protagonist Solid Snake had Metal Gear been an action movie.He auditioned for the lead role in Dredd (2012), but lost out to Karl Urban.Has two children with Carlene Olson: twin boys, Devon and Taylor Biehn (born 1984).He was considered for Patrick Swayze's roles in Next of Kin (1989) and Point Break (1991).He was considered for the role of Jack Traven in Speed (1994) that went to Keanu Reeves.He was considered for Kurt Russell's roles in Tango & Cash (1989) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).Was nominated at the 1986 Saturn Awards for Best Actor in Aliens (1986), won the Special Award at the 1989 Saturn Awards for The Abyss (1989), and won the Lifetime Career Award at the 2011 Saturn Awards.He was considered for the role of Jonathan Kent in Man of Steel (2013), which went to Kevin Costner.Said that he did not get to interact with Arnold Schwarzenegger very much while filming The Terminator (1984). Ironically, fans often ask him what it was like to work with Arnold.He was considered for the role of John Nada in They Live (1988) that went to Roddy Piper.Partner is actress Jennifer Blanc-Biehn.He was considered for the role of Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which went to Stephen Lang.In November 2003, he began filming in New York a project called 'Amerikanets' ("The American"), directed by cult Russian director Aleksey Balabanov, with Aleksey Chadov and Viktor Sukhorukov rounding out the cast. The thriller involved a US investment banker, named Nick McGuire, making an unauthorized investment in a Russian pulp mill. When the deal turns sour, he travels to Siberia to uncover the mystery. According to Balabanov, filming in New York went smoothly, but when the crew moved to Noril'sk, Northern Siberia, Biehn started drinking vodka heavily. After four days of filming, the production relocated to Irkutsk, Central Siberia where, again according to the Russian director, Biehn would drank himself to a stupor. Balabanov refused to continue filming, and the project was canceled.Neill Blomkamp asked him to audition for the role that went to Sigourney Weaver in Chappie (2015); he originally envisioned that role to be male, but then changed his mind.Has two sons with ex-wife Gina Marsh: Caelan Biehn and Alexander Biehn.Has played basketball in high school and is shown playing basketball in three of his films: Coach (1978), Grease (1978) and The Art of War (2000).He originally read for the role of Tom Chisum in Grease (1978), but lost out to Lorenzo Lamas. He did get a much smaller role in the film.He stated in an interview that making Navy Seals (1990) was "probably the worst experience of my life".He was considered for the role of Jerome Talget in The Grey (2011), which went to Dermot Mulroney.Edward James Olmos seriously considered him for the role of JD in American Me (1992), but William Forsythe got the role in the end.His ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Scottish and Bohemian (Czech).He declined to audition for the role of McManus in The Usual Suspects (1995). The role went to Stephen Baldwin.He was considered for the role of Van Stretch in Internal Affairs (1990) that went to William Baldwin.Attended the University of Arizona on a drama scholarship. He left school two years early to pursue his career in Hollywood.During an August 2011 interview, he revealed he has a "bottom five" of movies he was in: Navy Seals (1990), Deadfall (1993), Dead Men Can't Dance (1997), Chain of Command (2000) and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001).At Cannes 1998 it was announced that he was going to play ailing porn-star John Holmes in "Wonderland," the story of the grisly 1981 murders of four people on Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Tim Daly was set to co-star, while Nick Vallelonga would have directed from a script by Todd Samovitz and D. Loriston Scott. Shooting was set for Fall of the same year in Los Angeles, but it happened only 4 years later with a different cast led by Val Kilmer, who took the role of Holmes. James Cox, the new director, reworked the original script together with Captain Mauzner.His characters are frequently killed or seriously injured: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), The Fan (1981), Mojave Moon (1996), The Rock (1996), Cherry Falls (2000), Tombstone (1993), Chain of Command (2000), Jade (1995), The Art of War (2000), Bereavement (2010), Stiletto (2008), The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015), Dragon Heat (2005), Planet Terror (2007), Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001), A Taste for Killing (1992), Navy Seals (1990), The Victim (2011), Sushi Girl (2012), Streets of Blood (2009) and the list goes on.He was considered for the lead role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which went to Tom Hardy.Friends with Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox. |
| Trademarks: |
Frequently plays military soldiers or various sorts of law enforcement officials
Frequently works with James Cameron
Frequently portrays characters who are dead by their films' ending |
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I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
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[on not spending much time with Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Terminator (1984)] I saw him around, you know. He was doing his thing, I was doing my thing, but I didn't really get to talk to him because Linda and I spend the entire film running away from Arnold.
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[on the chase scenes in The Terminator (1984)] Looking back on it, I realize we were really going at some high speeds those nights. One night, my adrenaline was running so high I actually tore the steering wheel off, and I just looked over at Linda [Hamilton] and said "Here, you drive!".
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I do a lot of research on most of my roles and before I start a role when I read a script I know all of the beats in the script and I know exactly how to do it because I've read about such a character or experienced similar things myself or had the same sort of relationship with people. So, when I go in to act it it's mostly technique. I'm not an actor who just lets things happen in front of the camera.
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I know why they think of me as intense. It's because on the set, I'm very concentrated. I don't just walk on and do my thing and walk off. I'm very intense when I'm working. I know exactly what I'm doing before I get in there. [1990 interview] |
| Job title: |
Actor,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
Interviewed for a special Documentary in 1992, entitled "Under Pressure: Making the Abyss" Ed Harris, James Cameron and most of the cast and crew were also interviewed. Released this year on Special Edition DVD and Video of "The Abyss" |
| Spouse: |
Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (June 7, 2018 - present) (1 child)Gina Marsh (January 1, 1988 - May 2014) (divorced, 2 children)Carlene Olson (July 11, 1980 - July 14, 1987) (divorced, 2 children) |
| Children: |
Devon BiehnTaylor BiehnCaelan BiehnAlexander BiehnDashiell King Biehn |
| Parents: |
Marcia Biehn (Connell)
Don Biehn |
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