Michael Worth

Michael Troy Worth (born January 13, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Worth is from German and Native American heritage. At the age of 11, he directed his first film titled The Tire with a super 8mm camera he had spent his allowance on. He continued making short films and experimental video projects during his youth.

Sometime later when he moved to Los Angeles, Worth grabbed a handful of small parts in film and television including "Pacific Blue" and "Alien Nation". He lived with his dog in his truck for 6 months in Los Angeles while trying to save money. Surviving on odd jobs and construction work, Michael grabbed whatever small parts he could as he climbed the Hollywood ladder.

His first lead role came with the film independent action film Final Impact from which he was labeled a "a promising newcomer" by Variety magazine. Signed to several films with PM Entertainment, he worked through a series of low budget films before landing the role of "Tommy"on TV series Acapulco H.E.A.T.. He was also one of the front-runners for the role of Robin in Batman Forever, ultimately making a cameo in a fight scene with Chris O'Donnell.

In 2004, he wrote and directed the ultra independent experimental film Killing Cupid. It grabbed him a Best Director nomination at the Action On Film Film Festival in 2005 as well as "Best Fiction Film" at the "Hollywood Documentary and Fiction Film Festival" in 2006. As he continued to act in a variety of small idi films like "The Storytellers" with Tippi Hedren, Michael continued to hone his skills as a filmmaker by Ghost writing for various films and television as well as directing second unit ("Demon Hunter", etc.) in hopes of creating the kind of projects he had originally came to Hollywood to do. Worth acted in and wrote the screenplays for the psychological thriller western Dual (2005) and the sci-fi film Devil On The Mountain (2006).

Finally given the opportunity to put a film together from the ground up, Worth began the film "God's Ears" which he wrote, directed and played a boxer suffering from autism. Worth would be nominated for the film, a Breakout Acting Award at MethodFest 2008, and later win the two biggest awards at New York's Visionfest, "The Jack Nance Breakout Performance Award" and "The Domani Emerging Talent Award". In 2009, he would also win "Best Director at "The Las Vegas Film Festival" and the film would become the only US entry into the Skip City D-Cinema Film Festival in Japan, in 2009.

Following in the footsteps of more successful pioneers such as Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and John Cassavetes, Michael continues to write meanigful and entertaining screenplays for future production.

Michael is in development to direct the David Mamet written screenplay Come Back To Sorrento based on the 1930s romance novel of the same name by Dawn Powell. .

External links

• Michael Worth at the Internet Movie Database

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