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Michael Diamond
Actor, Producer, Writer, Composer, Additional CreditsBorn November 20, 1965 (59 years)
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Diamond was born in New York City to an upper-middle-class Jewish household. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months. In 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, a friend and follower of the band became their bass player, and on the suggestion of their then-guitar player, John Berry, the band changed their name to the Beastie Boys. By 1983,Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip-hop. In 1992, Mike D founded the Beastie Boys' now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in interior decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper; it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea, which reopened in January 2013. A year after the passing of MCA in 2012, Mike D told Rolling Stone he was "excited about making new stuff again" and released "Humberto Vs the New Reactionaries (Christine and the Queens Remix)" in July 2013. A remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band's "Bad Dancer" by Mike D and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with “additional beats, programming and other curve balls.”
Diamond was born in New York City to an upper-middle-class Jewish household. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months. In 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, a friend and follower of the band became their bass player, and on the suggestion of their then-guitar player, John Berry, the band changed their name to the Beastie Boys. By 1983,Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip-hop. In 1992, Mike D founded the Beastie Boys' now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in interior decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper; it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea, which reopened in January 2013. A year after the passing of MCA in 2012, Mike D told Rolling Stone he was "excited about making new stuff again" and released "Humberto Vs the New Reactionaries (Christine and the Queens Remix)" in July 2013. A remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band's "Bad Dancer" by Mike D and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with “additional beats, programming and other curve balls.”
Michael Diamond Filmography
| 2022 | Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (TV Series) · as Chasen's Pianist |
| 2011 | Beastie Boys: Fight for Your Right Revisited · as Cop 2 |
| 2006 | 30 Rock (TV Series) · as Mike D. |
| 2004 | Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2002 | Keep Your Eyes Open · as Officer Diamond |
| 1999 | Futurama (TV Series) · as Mike D's Head (voice) |
| 1998 | Free Tibet · as Mike D - Beastie Boys |
| 1994 | |
| 1994 | Beastie Boys: Sabotage · as The Chief (as Alasondro Alegré) |
| 1984 | Over Exposed · as George |
| 2024 | Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Ricky Powell: The Individualist · as Self |
| 2020 | Celebrity Escape Room · as Self |
| 2020 | Beastie Boys Story · as Self |
| 2019 | Shangri-La (2019) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Desus & Mero (2019) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | 808 · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Park Bench (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Finding the Funk · as Himself |
| 2013 | Downloaded · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Bad Brains: A Band in DC · as Self |
| 2012 | |
| 2011 | Ben Lee: Catch My Disease · as Self |
| 2011 | |
| 2007 | Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome · as Self |
| 2006 | 3rd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 2006 | Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Fade to Black · as Self |
| 2004 | Hip-Hop Honors · as Self |
| 2004 | Beastie Boys 'Horseplay' · as Self |
| 2004 | And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | 2004 MTV Movie Awards · as Self - Beastie Boys |
| 2003 | The Work of Director Spike Jonze · as Self |
| 2003 | Chappelle's Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | The Legend of Dolemite: Bigger & Badder · as Self |
| 2000 | Beastie Boys: Video Anthology · as Self |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live 25 · as Self - Beastie Boys |
| 1998 | Beastieography · as Self |
| 1997 | Behind the Music (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1994 | Hi Octane (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | The Legend of Dolemite · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | The Big Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | Yo! MTV Raps (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | Tougher Than Leather · as Himself |
| 1988 | Yo! MTV Raps (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville · as Self - As Beastie Boys |
| 1985 | Krush Groove · as Self (beastie Boys) |
| 1984 | MTV Video Music Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Beastie · as Self - Mike D |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2020 | Beastie Boys Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Basement · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie · as Songs |
| 2006 | Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! · as Composer |
| 1982 | Beastie · as Composer |