Michael Laurence

Acting

Michael Laurence

Cincinatti, OH, USA

Michael Laurence
is an award-winning actor and writer. He is known for his recurring roles as Curtis 'Caddie' DeVille on NBC’s Shades of Blue (opposite Jennifer Lopez), the eco-terrorist Maddox Beck on NBC’s The Blacklist, Cutter the Vet on the cult hit The Heartshe Holler on Adult Swim, and the mysterious Barry the Homeless Man on FX’s Damages, among many other TV and film credits. He has performed leading roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway, in top regional theaters, and internationally. 

He is the playwright of the acclaimed Off-Broadway plays Krapp,39 (Drama Desk Award nomination, Soho Playhouse/London/Dublin/Edinburgh), Hamlet in Bed (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Pleasance Theatre/Edinburgh), and the upcoming Cincinnatus. 
 He is the co-creator (with playwright-performer Edgar Oliver) of Chop Off Your Ear and the writer/director of the feature film Escape Artists. 
Other screenplays include Hamlet in Bed and the feature adaptation of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

 He has guest-starred on Prodigal Son, Evil, The Good Wife, Elementary, Person Of Interest, Hit & Run, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Johnny Zero, FX, GhostStories, As the World Turns, and Jonathan Ames’ What’s Not To Love? for SHOWTIME. Film acting credits include The Last Thing Mary Saw (upcoming), Can You Ever Forgive Me?, One For the Money (w/ Katharine Heigl), Man On A Ledge (w/ Sam Worthington & Ed Harris), A Walk In The Park (directed by Amos Poe), The Operator, Follow Me Outside, Room314, Escape Artists, Claire Dolan, Torte Blume, Tell Me The Truth, The Chase, Standing In the Current, Love God, The Minister’s Black Veil, Particles of Truth, and other indies.



Acting credits

Airplane! poster
7.3

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Airplane!

1980

Man on a Ledge poster
6.4

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

Man on a Ledge

2012

Can You Ever Forgive Me? poster
6.8

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2018

The Dutchman poster
5.2

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.

The Dutchman

2026

Someone's Watching Me! poster
6.2

A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

Someone's Watching Me!

1978

The Last Thing Mary Saw poster
6.0

Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.

The Last Thing Mary Saw

2021

The Deliberate Stranger poster
6.3

Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.

The Deliberate Stranger

1986

Crybaby Bridge poster
4.8

After being bullied at school, a pregnant teen's family sets out to move from the city to the countryside, unexpectedly revealing a coveted secret of her past that threatens the fresh start they seek.

Crybaby Bridge

2026

Claire Dolan poster
5.6

A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.

Claire Dolan

1998

The Operator poster
4.1

A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

The Operator

2000

My Love Affair with Marriage poster
5.4

From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn't seem right with the concept of love: the more she tried to conform, the more her body resisted. A story about the acceptance of the inner female rebellion.

My Love Affair with Marriage

2023

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4.0

How many stories can one hotel room tell? Watch as five couples in different stages of relationships reveal what they really want to each other.

Room 314

2006

Follow Me Outside poster
7.0

A petty criminal dealing with his friend's death meets a beautiful woman in a bar with whom he runs away with. But things get messy when two gangsters want to retaliate for their partner's death.

Follow Me Outside

2000

Country of Hotels poster
2.0

A room in an anonymous hotel has a profoundly dark effect on all who stay there.

Country of Hotels

2019

Love God poster
6.8

Manhattan, 1996. All mental hospitals must cut their patient load by a third, and LaRue (Will Keenan) is sent out onto the streets with "chronic reading syndrome". He ends up at the Love Hotel (where most of the inmates are being held), and falls in love with a mute girl who's obsessive mother dominates her life. To top it all off, LaRue is given a roommate with Tourette's syndrome and is chased by a prehistoric worm that inhabits peoples bodies and mutates them.

Love God

1999

Particles of Truth poster
5.9

Consumed with the fear of failing, Lilli, a skeptical young painter crosses paths on the streets of Manhattan with Morrison, an obsessive compulsive writer who rarely escapes the confines of his car. In the most harrowing 48 hours of their lives, they are forced to come to terms with their past in order to feel worth of success and love. As we weave in and out of eight defective lives, Lilli and Morrison expose us to the sad truths of life as well as its wonderful possibilities.

Particles of Truth

2003