Michael Hayden

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Biography

The following year, he repeated the role of Billy Bigelow in the Lincoln Center version of Nicholas Hytner's production. The stage-trained actor made his first TV appearance as Richard Crenna's crippled grandson romanced by a lower-class woman (Laura Leighton) in the telefilm "In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy" (Fox, 1995). Hayden went on to appear as ambitious attorney Chris Docknovich in the courtroom series "Murder One" (ABC, 1995-97).
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Job Title

Actor, Below The Line

Born

July 28, 1963

Career Milestones

2002

Cast as Franklin Shephard in the Kennedy Center production of "Merrily We Roll Along"

2001

Appeared in Philadalphia stage production of "Camila", opposite wife Elizabeth Sastre

2001

Co-starred in the Broadway staging of "Judgment at Nuremberg"; picked up Tony nomination

1999

Assumed role of Cliff in the hit revival of "Cabaret"

1999

Feature film debut, the title role in "Charming Billy"

1998

Starred opposite Elizabeth Ashley in a Washington, DC stage production of "Sweet Bird of Youth"

1995

Played lawyer Chris Docknovich in the ABC TV series "Murder One"

1995

TV-movie debut, "In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy" (Fox), opposite Laura Leighton

1994

Broadway debut, "Carousel"

1993

London stage debut in "Carousel"

TV debut, recurring role on NBC daytime soap "Another World"

Awards

1999

AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival for Best Actor in Charming Billy