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Biography
Michael John Harney is an American actor of film, television, and theater. He is best known for starring on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black as Corrections Officer Sam Healy. In 2019, he had a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind.
Career
Throughout Harney's television career, he has performed in numerous blockbuster films such as Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Thirteen. Before starring on Orange Is the New Black, Harney starred as Detective Mike Roberts in the award-winning television police drama NYPD Blue and also in the HBO historical drama series Deadwood as Steve Fields. Harney first worked with Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan on the Showtime original dark comedy Weeds, starring opposite Mary-Louise Parker as Detective Mitch Ouellette.
In 2015, Harney returned to his film roots in the independent drama, Bad Hurt, which had its world premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in 1999, Bad Hurt chronicles Ed Kendall's (Harney) struggle with PTSD as a proud war veteran and father to son (Theo Rossi) and mentally ill adult daughter (Iris Gilad), and the challenges each of them face during the constant pursuit of maintaining a normal family dynamic.
Personal Life
He has one son.
Early Life
Born in The Bronx, New York City, Harney went on to study under acting teachers William Esper and Phil Gushee, both of whom studied and taught with Sanford Meisner for many years at The Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theater. After studying acting for 7 years he went on to run The Michael Harney Acting Studio in New York City for 8 years. During his time in New York City, Harney acted in and/or directed more than 80 plays and one acts and starred in On The Waterfront on Broadway playing the role of Charlie Malloy.
Movies & TV shows
2020.
1 Movie · 2 TV shows
The Banker
6.25
2020
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration and equal access to the American Dream.
TV
Space Command
2020
An indy sci-fi show developed, written and directed by Mark Scott Zircree and Elaine Zicree. While not having the budget of a major studio, the cast of regular and recurring characters is comprised of...
TV
Interrogation
2020
Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. The goal of each episode is to turn the viewer into a detective, ...
2019.
3 TV shows
TV
For All Mankind
6.09
2019
NASA and the space program remained a priority and focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
TV
Doom Patrol
6.16
2019
The members of the Doom Patrol suffered terrible accidents that left them scarred and damaged. The Chief brought the team together to investigate strange phenomena and protect Earth from what they fin...
TV
Project Blue Book
6
2019
The true top secret of the U.S. is chronicled in this chronicle. Project Blue Book was an Air Force-sponsored investigation into unexplained flying objects in the 1950s and 1960s.
2018.
2 Movies · 1 TV show
Widows
5
2018
Four thieves were killed in a police shoot out during an armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows don't have anything in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. T...
A Star Is Born
6.29
2018
Jackson Maine fell in love with Ally, a struggling artist. She has given up on her dream of becoming a singer until Jack gets her into the spotlight. As Ally's career takes off, the personal side of t...
TV
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
6
2018
A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
2017.
1 TV show
TV
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
6
2017
One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestia...
2016.
2 Movies · 1 TV show
TV
Lethal Weapon
5.9
2016
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
I Am Nero
2016
The border fence between Mexico and the United States is part of their lives; Mexican youths use it as a volleyball net on the beach, holding their own kind of international matches with their opposit...
Bad Hurt
2016
Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is sufferi...
2015.
1 TV show
TV
Chicago Med
5.74
2015
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courage of the team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by c...
2014.
1 TV show
TV
True Detective
6.28
2014
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
2013.
1 TV show
TV
Orange Is the New Black
5.96
2013
A crime she committed in her youthful past causes her to be sent to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric grou...
2010.
1 Movie
Salvation Road
2010
Business becomes unusual for an unsuspecting hitman who senses that he's been witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a 9 year old boy.
2008.
1 Movie
The Onion Movie
2008
Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "de...
2007.
2 Movies
Ocean's Thirteen
5.68
2007
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are crafting a plan that is more personal than ever before. Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do everything they can to bring down the casino owner after he ca...
Captivity
6
2007
The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When th...
2005.
2 TV shows
TV
Criminal Minds
5.94
2005
An elite team of FBI profilers watch over the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The most experienced agent in the Behavioral Analysis Unit ...
2003.
1 Movie
Shade
8
2003
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a r...
2002.
1 TV show
TV
Without a Trace
6.83
2002
The FBI's Missing Persons Unit in New York City was the subject of the series.
2001.
1 TV show
TV
Crossing Jordan
5.95
2001
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief ...
2000.
1 Movie
Erin Brockovich
7.67
2000
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records des...
1999.
1 Movie
The '60s
1999
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam..
1997.
1 Movie · 2 TV shows
TV
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
6.48
1997
A slayer is born into every generation, one girl in all of the world. To stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number, she alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampire, ...
Turbulence
4.75
1997
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimatel...
TV
The Practice
1997
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
1996.
1 Movie
Gone in the Night
1996
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
1994.
1 TV show
TV
ER
5.7
1994
The inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room were explored.
1993.
1 TV show
TV
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.68
1993
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of a liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and his crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all typ...
1990.
1 TV show
TV
Law & Order
5.77
1990
From two different vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court, it follows a murder.
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