Michael Emerson

First of all Michael Emerson is a very talented stage actor who had many, many roles on Broadway. He became famous as Oscar Wilde in “The Trials of Oscar Wilde” in 1997 at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Uhm wait, you may ask yourself: Since when is it JebbyStage ? Yeah you are right, you don’t know Michael from his plays, as a movie and series fan you most likely know him as Benjamin Linus from Lost.

So who is this guy, you probably never noticed before he appeared at the series?

Michael Emerson was born in 1954 in Iowa and worked in graphical jobs till he moved to Florida in the 80s. He then started his work as a director and producer at theaters. In 1997, as mentioned, he became famous as Oscar Wilde in this play at the Minetta Lane. He played in a few not so well known movies such as “Playing by heart” and “The Unfaithful” till he finally got a guest starring at the X-Files. In 2004 he starred in “Saw” and finally joined “Lost” in 2006. I also saw him in “Jumping off bridges”, nice movie by the way, totally watchable.

Michael Emerson is just a talented actor and you can see in his acting that he’s right off the theatre and not casted for some TV show. Nothing against TV casts but as I come from the theatre myself, I just got a thing for stage actors.

Michael Emerson has a huge and loyal fancrowd, due to his roles in Saw and Lost mostly and he stayed down to earth in his whole, yet evolving, career. Very recommended actor, go watch his movies and try to make it to one of his plays!