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Michael Aronov

Actor
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Michael Aronov is an American actor and playwright. He played the character Schlatko in the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Aronov received The Elliot Norton Award — Best Actor, for originating the lead role in Mauritius at The Huntington Theatre. In 2009 he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at the English Theater in Germany. His one-man show called Manigma was produced in New York City in 2006 and opens again in January 2010 at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row in NYC.

Aronov has worked with Terrence McNally on the world premiere of Unusual Acts of Devotion in Philadelphia. Previously he was in Los Angeles under the direction of Estelle Parsons in Salome, starring Al Pacino.

Aronov has worked with Oleg Tabakov of The Moscow Art Theatre, Joseph Chaikin, Lee Grant, and others. At the Studio he also portrayed Knut in Strindberg’s Playing with Fire, directed by Lee Grant and then Jean in another Strindberg classic, Miss Julie at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He played opposite Annabella Sciorra in MCC's production of Spain at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; Dionysus in The Bacchae 2.1; and Edgar in an award-winning production of King Lear.

On television Aronov has been seen in Life on Mars, Lipstick Jungle, Without a Trace, Threat Matrix, and The Closer. He made several appearances in the Law & Order franchise, worked with the late Bruno Kirby in Barry Levinson's The Beat, among various episodes on Spin City, The Game and All My Children.

His film work includes Amexicano, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and two Sundance Film Festival favorites: Hedwig & the Angry Inch and the upcoming Lbs. He has been honored nationally with a Level 1 Award for Acting by the NFAA in association with the ARTS; an IRNE Award nomination for best supporting actor, MA; The Greer Garson Award in Dallas, TX; and in culmination of his work he was the recipient of The Individual Grant Award by the Belle Foundation, "exhibiting exceptional talent and potential for achievement in the arts."

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Cold Souls
  • Half Magic

Known For

  • The Drop
  • Operation Finale
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Jett
  • Amexicano
  • Half Magic
  • Gun Hill

Michael Aronov Filmography

2022
The First Lady (2022) (TV Series) · as Rahm Emanuel
2021
Hit & Run (TV Series) · as Isaac Katkov
2021
Crisis · as Minas
2020
Snowpiercer (TV Series) · as Dr. Nima Rousseau
2019
Jett (TV Series) · as Jack 'jackie' Dillon
2018
Operation Finale · as Zvi Aharoni
2018
The Terror (TV Series) · as Cast
2018
2016
2016
Billions (TV Series) · as Michael
2015
Quantico (TV Series) · as Hamza Kouri
2015
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (TV Series) · as Dmitri Mendeleev
2014
Forever (2014) (TV Series) · as Dasha
2014
Madam Secretary (TV Series) · as Anton Durchenko
2014
The Drop · as Chovka
2014
Gun Hill · as Danny Raden
2013
Reign (2013) (TV Series) · as Count Vincent
2013
The Blacklist (TV Series) · as Joe 'smokey' Putnum
2013
Fortune House · as Peter
2013
Golden Boy (2013) (TV Series) · as Dominic Quinlan
2013
The Americans (2013) (TV Series) · as Anton Baklanov
2012
Elementary (TV Series) · as Andrej Bacera
2012
Americana · as Alexander Orloff
2011
Person of Interest (TV Series) · as Michael Cahill
2010
Blue Bloods (TV Series) · as Ricky Vintano
2009
Cold Souls · as Mafioso
2009
White Collar (TV Series) · as Clark Maskhadov
2009
The Good Wife (TV Series) · as Danny Lambros
2008
Life on Mars (US) (TV Series) · as Yuri Demidov
2008
Lipstick Jungle (TV Series) · as Serge
2007
Burn Notice (TV Series) · as Vlade / Serb
2007
Amexicano · as Alex
2006
The Game (TV Series) · as Babak
2005
The Closer (TV Series) · as Armand Marku
2004
Lbs. · as Sacco Valenzia
2003
Threat Matrix (TV Series) · as Amir Abadiyah
2002
Without a Trace (TV Series) · as Brice Hunter
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) · as Avi
2001
2000
The Beat (TV Series) · as Street Vendor
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Igor
1996
Spin City (TV Series) · as First Protester
1990
Law & Order (TV Series) · as Alex Arshavin
1970
All My Children (TV Series) · as Lazlo

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