Michael Chernus

Michael Chernus

Also an accomplished stage actor, Michael won a 2011 OBIE Award and received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for his performance in Lisa Kron's "In the Wake" at The Public Theater in New York City. Michael grew up in Rocky River, Ohio and became interested in acting at an early age. His first role in a play was as "Gandalf" in a stage adaptation of "The Hobbit" when he was just 13 years old. He went on to take classes at the Beck Center in Lakewood, Ohio before graduating from high school and moving to New York. Michael studied acting at Juilliard from 1995-1999. On stage, he has co-starred with David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez in the Manhattan Theater Club production of "Close Up Space" at New York City Center and with America Ferrera in the revival of Terence McNally's "Lips Together, Teeth Apart" at Second Stage. Other New York credits include such theaters as Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, New York Theater Workshop, The Atlantic Theater Company, and many productions at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (where he played the lead role of "KJ" in Annie Baker's play "The Aliens," which Charles Isherwood, of the New York Times, named the best play of 2010). His credits in regional theater include productions at the Williamstown Theater Festival, The Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Guthrie Theater, among others. Internationally, he appeared in Adam Rapp's "Finer Noble Gases" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Fringe First Award) and in London at the Bush Theatre. Michael is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 28). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Emily Simoness. Michael is very involved with his wife's non-profit SPACE on Ryder Farm.
Michael Chernus

Movies

​Carol & The End of The World
  • Dec 15, 2023
  • English
As a planetary apocalypse looms, a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos searches for meaning in her last months on Earth.
Molli and Max in the Future
  • Aug 24, 2023
  • Hindi
A sci-fi romantic comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions, and one space-cult.
Dead Ringers
  • Apr 20, 2023
  • Hindi
The Mantle twins, identical from head to toe, are on a mission to change the way women give birth.
Severance
  • Feb 17, 2022
  • English
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Easy
8.3
This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture.
Aloha
  • Dec 23, 2018
  • OST
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Goodbye to All That
  • Dec 16, 2014
  • English
Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the dating pool.
Captain Phillips
  • Oct 11, 2013
  • OSTTamil
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
The Bourne Legacy
  • Aug 10, 2012
  • OST
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Men in Black 3
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.