Actor
Michael Cerveris
Born November 6, 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA25 films
Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including in several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. He won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins.
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He was called, by Playbill.com, "arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway", playing roles from "Shakespeare's Romeo to The Who's Tommy, from the German transsexual rock diva Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch to the homicidal title character of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd."
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First watchWatchmen: Chapter I20247.4as Jonathan Osterman / Dr. Manhattan / Father (voice)In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
25 films as actor- 2026A StatementEdward Strohbehn
- 2025Basic PsychStuart Prince
- 2024Watchmen: Chapter IIDr. Manhattan / Prison Guard #2 (voice)
- 2024Watchmen: Chapter IJonathan Osterman / Dr. Manhattan / Father (voice)
- 2024Fun Home: 10th Anniversary Reunion ConcertBruce
- 2018Ant-Man and the WaspElihas Starr
- 2016DetoursBob O'Connor
- 2014Leaving CircadiaReece
- 2014Russian Broadway Shut DownVladimir Putin
- 2011Stake Land: JebediahJebediah Loven
- 2010MeskadaTerrence Lindy
- 2010Stake LandJebedia Loven
- 2009Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantMr. Tiny
- 2009Brief Interviews with Hideous MenSubject #15
- 2005PassionGiorgio
- 2004TemptationPablo
- 2004AssassinsJohn Wilkes Booth
- 2001The MexicanFrank
- 1998Lulu on the BridgeRestaurant Man #3
- 1992A Woman, Her Men, and Her FutonPaul
- 1991Rock 'n' Roll High School ForeverEaglebauer
- 1991Steel and LaceDaniel Emerson
- 1990StrangersJohn Reece
- 1988Tokyo PopMike
- 1985DoubletakeGary Prine