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Michael Park Biography
Michael Park is an American actor best known for his performances in the films As the World Turns, Dear Evan Hansen, and Stranger Things. He starred in the role of Bill Thomas in the psychological drama TV series, Saint X, which premiered on Hulu on April 26, 2023.
Michael Park Height
Park stands at a rough height of 5 feet and 10½” inches.
Michael Park Age
Park is 57 years old. He was born Michael Frank Park on 20th July 1968 in Canandaigua, New York, the United States. Park annually celebrates his birthday on July 20th.
Personal Life
Michael Park Family and Relatives
Park was born in 1968 to his parents in Canandaigua, New York. While growing up, he spent a part of his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Even so, he keeps more information regarding his family and relatives away from the public eye. However, we will update this information once it’s available to the public.
Michael Park Spouse and Children
Park tied the knot with Laurie Nowak, a music therapist, on 6th January 1996. Laurie was born on 27th July 1969 and is 56 years old. The couple has three kids Kathleen Rose, Christopher Michael, and Annabelle Jayne.
Michael was born on 21st June 1997 and is 28 years old. Kathleen was born on 15th February 2000 and is 25 years old. Annabelle was born on 5th April 2004 and is 21 years old.
Michael Park Education
Park received his high school diploma before enrolling at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Initially, he pursued architecture before deciding to act. He has an honorary doctorate.
Professional Life
Michael Park Net Worth
Park has garnered a net worth ranging from $1 million to $6 million during his successful career as an actor.
Michael Park Career
Park is repped by Innovative Artists and Power Entertainment Group. He is best known for his performances as Jack Snyder in As the World Turns, Larry Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen, and reporter Tom Holloway in Stranger Things on its third season.
In 2010 and 2011, Park won back-to-back Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. For his performance in Dear Evan Hansen, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Plays, Musicals, and Theatre
Park worked at Geva Theatre in Rochester in the 1992 New Plays Festival. Further, he appeared in regional productions such as Ellen Universe, Joins The Band, and Peephole. In the musical, Hello Again at Lincoln Center Theater, he made an appearance in 1994.
Park was in the Goodspeed Opera House production of Shenandoah, and Good News at the North Shore Music Theatre in August 1994. After serving as an understudy for Billy Bigelow in the 1994 restoration of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, he made his Broadway launch in 1995 in Smokey Joe’s Cafe.
Additionally, he starred as Monty in the Playwrights Horizons production of Violet in 1997. During his feature in As the World Turns for 13 years, he still worked in theatre. For instance, in 1998, he starred as Lucky Malone in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s rebirth of Little Me. Also, he made two New York City Center Encores! appearances.
That is, as Jeff Calhoun in Bloomer Girl in 2001 and as Bill Sampson Applause in 2008. After the As the World Turns ended in June 2010, Park returned to the stage and played in The Burnt Part Boys at Playwrights Horizon. He starred as Pete’s ghost father who materialized as three “Alamo” characters to his son in the musical.
In addition, he starred as Lord Capulet in the musical, The Last Goodbye, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2010. Park then played the cop in Will Eno’s play Middletown at the off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre (2010). Also, he played Bert Bratt in the Broadway revival, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011). He starred alongside Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette.
Park played one of Captain Hook’s pirates, Cecco, in the NBC presentation of Peter Pan Live! Co-starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, the musical was broadcast on 4th December 2014. He starred as Finn in the musical Redwood at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2024 and at the Nederlander Theatre, Broadway in 2025.
Films
Co-starring Linus Roache, he played Morris Brown in the 2012 financial thriller film, Supercapitalist. On 5th December 2013, he worked as a cast member of the NBC telecast production of The Sound of Music Live! He has appeared in episodes of many television series. For example, he starred in an episode of The Good Wife (2012) as Lloyd Bullock.
Further, he appeared in The Blacklist (2016) as Captain Daly and in You‘s two episodes (2018) as Edwin Beck. Also, he starred in an episode of Blue Bloods (2018) as Inspector Keith Sullivan) and in an episode of FBI (2021) as Senator Walt Hoffman. In 2022, he starred as Philip Abshire in the HBO series, The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Movies and TV Shows
Michael Park As the World Turns
The day following Violet’s opening, Park appeared in the long-running daytime soap opera As the World Turns in the role of Jack Snyder. He joined the cast in April 1997. Snyder is the other half of the super couple from the drama.
Park attained three Emmy nominations and a number of other soap-opera acting awards, such as the 2010 and 2011 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. After the show ended in June 2010, Park returned to the stage and played in The Burnt Part Boys at Playwrights Horizon
Michael Park Dear Evan Hansen
In 2015, he generated the role of Larry Murphy in the global premiere of the stage musical, Dear Evan Hansen at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Even so, he was not in the off-Broadway run in early 2016, as he was starring in the Broadway musical, Tuck Everlasting. In the fall of 2016, he rejoined Dear Evan Hansen when the musical made its launch on Broadway.
For his work in Dear Evan Hansen, he won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and his third Daytime Emmy Award. The Emmy Award was a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program for his and the rest of the cast’s Today Show performance that was broadcast on 25th April 2017.
Michael Park You
In 2018, Park starred in Netflix’s You as Edward (or Edwin) Beck in 2 episodes. Edward is the father of Clyde, Guinevere, and Anya Beck. Guinevere lies that her father died of a drug overdose to cope with the trauma and perceived shame of her father’s addiction and abandonment.
After his overdose, Edward remarried and started a new family with a Christian blogger, Nancy. Guinevere and Edward have a complicated and strained relationship, as she struggles with the emotional aftermath of his overdose. During an argument, she tells him, “it feels like you did die that day in the basement.”
Guinevere Beck is a broke NYU graduate student and an aspiring writer. In the first season, Joseph “Joe” Gabriel Goldberg, a bookstore manager at Mooney’s, stalks and dates Guinevere. She accidentally discovers the truth about Joe and his crimes in the first season finale, leading to her imprisonment in the bookstore’s basement. After a failed attempt at escape, Joe ultimately kills her in a fit of rage.
Michael Park Stranger Things
Park starred as Tom Holloway in Netflix’s Stranger Things Season 3 in 2019. Holloway is a journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of The Hawkins Post. In this role, he oversees Jonathan Byers and Nancy Wheeler during their internship. He is an oppressive and sexist boss who mistreats Nancy by belittling and undermining her work. For example, he harshly dismisses Nancy’s idea of pursuing a story about rats eating fertilizer linked to the Mind Flayer. After she disobeys him, he dismisses both her and Jonathan to shut down her efforts and disregard her professional abilities
Michael Park Saint X
Park starred in the role of Bill Thomas in the psychological drama TV series, Saint X. The series premiered on Hulu on April 26, 2023. Bill and his wife, Mia(Betsy Brandt), are upper-middle-class parents of two(Alison and Emily), enjoying a family vacation in a Caribbean resort until one of their daughters goes missing. Emily( Alycia Debnam) is an environmental documentary editor.
Developed by Leila Gerstein, the series is based on the novel dubbed the same by Alexis Schaitkin. The series follows the mysterious death of one of Bill’s daughters during a utopian Caribbean vacation. Her death causes a distressing ripple effect that ultimately pulls her surviving sister into a savage pursuit of the truth.
The series is narrated through various timelines and viewpoints as it tackles the story behind the disappearance and death of the girl. Park will work alongside her fellow actors and actresses including; Josh Bonzie, West Duchovny, Jayden Elijah, Alycia Debnam, Bre Francis, Betsy Brandt, and Kenlee Anaya.
Michael Park Other Films and TV Shows
During his career, Park has made appearances in a number of films and TV shows;
- Law and Order(2023)
- She Came from the Woods (2022)
- Silent Partner(2021)
- Bull(2021)
- Hightown(2020)
- The Family(2019)
- Mindhunter(2017)
- Chicago P.D.(2014)
- Gotham The Series(2009)
Michael Park Social Media
Park has active social media platforms, i.e., X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. He has a following of 52K on Instagram and a following of 27K on X.
