Michael Medeiros

Acting

Michael Medeiros

Raised in Hawaii, Michael Medeiros moved to NYC to study with famed acting teacher and coach, Uta Hagen and has been working as a writer, director, actor and composer ever since. His feature film, Tiger Lily Road starring Tom Pelphrey (Mank, Ozark) played U.S. and international film festivals, winning the Audience Award at Woods Hole. It was the opening night film at Orlando FF and subsequently ran at NYC's Quad Cinema. He wrote and directed 3 Minutes, a film about a mass shooting which premiered at Soho International Film Festival and is the writer/composer/lyricist of A Wild Thing, a '60s rock musical that was partly developed at The Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals and was a finalist for a 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. As an actor he has appeared in big budget films and award winning indies, including X-Men First Class, RoboCop 2, Synecdoche New York, and Margot At The Wedding. On television, he starred in the Custer mini-series Son of the Morning Star and guest-starred in many TV series, including Manifest and seven episodes of Law & Order. On stage, he won critical acclaim in Goodman Theatre's radical reconstruction of Williams' Camino Real and has sung the title roles in Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha. He has also appeared at City Center Encores, The Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Long Wharf, Huntington, Kennedy Center and many others. He was lucky enough to spend ten summers at New River Dramatists, a writer's retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Acting credits

Synecdoche, New York poster
7.5

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Synecdoche, New York

2008

Brawl in Cell Block 99 poster
7.0

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

Brawl in Cell Block 99

2017

RoboCop 2 poster
6.0

After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.

RoboCop 2

1990

Ticks poster
5.7

Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

Ticks

1993

New York Nights poster
3.7

Nine New Yorkers' successful lives all intertwined in a treacherous tale of passion, a game of seduction. The only rule; anything goes.

New York Nights

1984

Margot at the Wedding poster
5.8

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

Margot at the Wedding

2007

Alone in the Dark poster
5.8

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

Alone in the Dark

1982

The Warrior Class poster
4.3

Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluctantly falls for the gangster's beautiful but drug-addicted wife - also his key witness - Alec soon realizes that all the legal savvy in the world can't protect him from the dangerous reality of mob violence. In a system where criminals often walk free, sometimes courtroom warriors must take the battle for justice into their own hands. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

The Warrior Class

2007

Parting Glances poster
6.9

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.

Parting Glances

1986

The Revenge of Al Capone poster
6.6

After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.

The Revenge of Al Capone

1989

Drunks poster
3.2

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting

Drunks

1997

She's Lost Control poster
4.9

Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.

She's Lost Control

2014

X-Men: First Class poster
7.3

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

X-Men: First Class

2011

Nola poster
6.8

An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected.

Nola

2003

Sunset Grill poster
4.3

Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and restaurant called the Sunset Grill and is romantically involved with Jeff Carruthers, a detective who worked with Hart. When someone close to them is murdered, Hart and Carruthers team up to try to solve the crime.

Sunset Grill

1993

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number poster
10.0

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

1983

The Garden Party poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Garden Party

1973

Tiger Lily Road poster
9.0

Two small town women capture a handsome fugitive who breaks into their house trying to escape a snowstorm and the law.

Tiger Lily Road

2013

The Wisdom Tooth poster
NR

A young man diagnosed with lymphoma decides to eschew medical treatment and embark on an odyssey of debauchery, self-destruction, and self-discovery through New York City.

The Wisdom Tooth

2019

Art of Diversion poster
NR

Brother and sister, Daphnis and Chloe Waterspoon are wealthy art collectors who live together in the New York City area. They share an ugly and brutal hobby-they lure unknowing people into sex and then murder them.

Art of Diversion

2024

Original Intent: The Battle for America poster
1.0

Original Intent is a judicial philosophy that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789 -- an era when only white men were allowed to vote and slavery was legal. Others believe the Constitution was crafted in broad, open-ended language and that its meaning evolves over time. The film argues that the far right is using originalism as a cover to advance a radically conservative political agenda: overturning laws that protect civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, reproductive rights, privacy, and sexual freedom. Interviewees include Robert Bork, Alan Dershowitz, Edwin Meese, Senator Alan Simpson, and leading scholars.

Original Intent: The Battle for America

2006

Behind the camera