Ironside, Michael (Michael Ironside)

Born in Toronto, a large working-class family. His mother had 16 brothers and sisters, and almost all of them, together with their families, lived on the same street. Michael graduated from the College of Arts `Ontario` in Toronto, where he made his debut - as an actor, writer and director of his first film `Down where the lights'. Then Ironside worked on the Canadian television and film. The attention of the public after the actor attracted fiction thriller, David Cronenberg 'Scanners', where Ironside was also a producer. Later Ironside worked with John Schlesinger ( `Falcon and the Snowman '), Walter Hill (` C `maximum caution), and have starred in Paul Verhoeven sci-fi movie' Total Recall '. Usually an actor is not getting any of the role of the nicest guys, usually they were soldiers or police. New work Verhoeven - 'Starship Troopers', shot on the novel by R. Heinlein - again drew attention to Ironside