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Updated on February 25, 2026
Michael Wincott Net Worth
Michael Wincott net worth is
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$15 Million
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Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott (born January 21, 1958 Toronto, Canada) is an international film and television actor. | Net Worth | $15 Million |
| Date Of Birth | January 21, 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 1.79 m |
| Occupation | Actor, Voice Actor |
| Profession | Voice Actor |
| Education | Juilliard School |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Parents | Lucia Wincott, William Wincott |
| Siblings | Jeff Wincott |
| Nicknames | Michael Wincott, Wincott, Michael |
| IMDB | |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
| Movies | The Crow, Along Came a Spider, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dead Man, The Count of Monte Cristo, Basquiat, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Seraphim Falls, Alien: Resurrection, The Three Musketeers, Forsaken, Strange Days, The Doors, Treasure Planet, What Just Happened, Hitchcock, Talk Radio, Before Ni... |
| TV Shows | 24: Live Another Day, Bizarre |
| Star Sign | Aquarius |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Frequently plays villains. |
| 2 | Deeply rasping voice |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | It's good to dress well. Elegance expresses greater expectations of life. The current culture of slovenliness conveys a spiritual and intellectual surrender. |
| 2 | It's not what's underfoot but in your veins. My father was a working man. He did all manner of things to house and feed his wife and three boys: sold encyclopedias, insurance, was a steamfitter. One day, at thirty-four years of age, on a construction site in twenty below zero, he decided to change his life. He labored by day and, two or three nights a week, placed his safety helmet in a locker at a University. Two degrees later, he became a teacher. He taught me determination and the value of literature and humour. My mother spent Sundays making ravioli by hand. She taught me patience, refinement and the value of one's passions. Of the three sons, I was the only one allowed into the kitchen. She wasn't fond of people around her there. For her it was a sacred place, spending hours rolling the dough, mixing the filling, making the circles of pasta with the open end of a cup. When we'd, at last, sit at the table, the first mouthful seemed like proof of the divine. Sundays were sublime. |
| 3 | [about his working relationship with Anthony Hopkins on Hitchcock (2012) ] He's been just a remarkable human being and I think, once again in my experience, that the remarkably talented are also... it's because they are remarkable people. |
| 4 | You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad. The guy I'm playing in Metro (1997) thinks of himself as a responsible and nice guy, since he is taking care of his retarded cousin. That is what I try to keep in mind, when I'm shooting and stabbing people. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Paul Schrader approached him to play the part of boss Grecco The Greek in Dog Eat Dog (2016). Scharder also considered Michael Douglas, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Nick Nolte, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum and Rupert Everett for that role, before deciding to play it himself. |
| 2 | In 2010 he agreed to star with Luis Robledo and Marisilda Garcia in the western/action/comedy short film "Days Like These", which was to be directed by Justin Eugene Evans, with whom he had recently worked on A Lonely Place for Dying (2009) . The plot was about a poker hustler who found himself trapped between an angry mark looking for revenge, the Union Army of Colorado and the Confederate Army of Texas. The project never entered the production stage, even though it was said to have the humor of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the visual panache of a John Woo action film and the snappy dialogue of an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. |
| 3 | He was considered for the role of Buddy in Bone Tomahawk (2015). |
| 4 | Was considered for the role of Willie O'Keefe in JFK (1991). The role went to Kevin Bacon. |
| 5 | In 2011 he appeared in a test scene for a movie project about American multiple murderer Richard Kuklinski. In the short, directed by Ariel Vromen, he played Robert "Mr. Softee" Pronge while Michael Shannon impersonated Kuklinski. The movie, called The Iceman (2012), entered production at the end of the same year; Shannon kept his role while Chris Evans was chosen to play Pronge because Vromen wanted someone younger for that part. The director offered Wincott another role, but the actor wasn't happy with it and amicably refused. Wincott was thanked in the end credits. |
| 6 | In the late 90s he was going to star in a project called "Cousin Joey" together with Mickey Rourke and Martin Landau. The movie was about two cousins, one an ex con named Joey (Wincott) who aspires to become a major player in the New York underworld and the other just released from prison (Rourke). Rourke's character tries to hook up with Joey and agrees to work as a loan shark to build up enough money to leave California and set up a home elsewhere and make a new start. A problem arises when their boss (Landau) is angered by Rourke's decision to leave and tries to put the squeeze on him and have him killed. When Wincott finds out, he takes Rourke on the run as they are chased by gangsters. Rourke contributed to the script and developed a lot of aspects to the original one which the producers had in mind; he was aiming for a more dialogue oriented approach, while the producers wanted more action. The result was that the project lost some producers and then failed to secure new financing. At this point Wincott left while Rourke rapidly tried to find a co-star; he didn't succeed and moved on other projects. |
| 7 | He was considered for a role in Detachment (2011). |
| 8 | Turned down an audition for an unspecified villain role in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). |
| 9 | Turned down a recurring role in Lost (2004). |
| 10 | In 2006 he was going to star in the movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's "Ecstasy" together with Hugh Dancy, Billy Boyd, Scott Cleverdon, Richard E. Grant and Sarah Carter, under the direction of Rob Heydon. The film was shot 4 years later with a different cast, except for Billy Boyd. |
| 11 | In December 2008 he and Swedish actor/helmer Rafael Edholm joined forces to write the script for an untitled dark-edged drama/thriller. Taking place in the far north of Sweden and in Venice over four days, the project was the story of two men awaiting the subject of their assignment, an assassination, to arrive when a woman appears who might have been the childhood love of one of them. Wincott was going to play one of the leads while Edholm would've directed the pic, which had a budget of $10 million and was set to shoot starting in February 2010 for delivery in the fall of the same year. Although announced far in advance, the project did not start production due to financial problems. |
| 12 | He's the youngest of three brothers. |
| 13 | Lives in West Hollywood, California. |
| 14 | Parents: William and Lucia. |
| 15 | Has appeared in two films based on Alexandre Dumas' works: The Three Musketeers (1993) and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). |
| 16 | He is known for his apathetic stance on celebrity and the ideals of Hollywood, often stating that he holds art in higher regard than money. |
| 17 | He played drums in jazz band as a kid. |
| 18 | His favorite musician is Keith Richards. |
| 19 | Of English and Italian descent. |
| 20 | He plays a multitude of instruments including drums, harmonica, guitar and piano. |
| 21 | Younger brother of Jeff Wincott. |
| 22 | The Juilliard School (Drama Division), 1982-1986 (graduated). |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veni Vidi Vici | 2017 | TV Series | Georgina |
| Ghost in the Shell | 2017 | Dr. Osmund (uncredited) | |
| Westworld | 2016 | TV Series | Old Bill |
| Forsaken | 2015/I | Gentleman Dave Turner | |
| Knight of Cups | 2015 | Herb | |
| 24: Live Another Day | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Adrian Cross |
| Grand Street | 2014 | Reuben | |
| The Girl from Nagasaki | 2013 | Goro | |
| Hitchcock | 2012 | Ed Gein | |
| Darksiders II | 2012 | Video Game | Death (voice) |
| Infex | 2012 | Video Game | Griffin (voice) |
| Syndicate | 2012 | Video Game | Jules Merit (voice) |
| The Farewell | 2011 | Short | He |
| A Lonely Place for Dying | 2009 | Anthony Greenglass | |
| Sketches from Great Gull | 2008 | Short | Seafaring Poet (voice) |
| What Just Happened | 2008 | Jeremy Brunell | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Fashion Photographer | |
| Seraphim Falls | 2006 | Hayes | |
| Narc | 2005 | Video Game | Mr. Big (voice) |
| Halo 2 | 2004 | Video Game | Prophet of Truth (voice) |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon | 2004 | Julius Bicke | |
| Remembering Charlie | 2003 | TV Movie | Richard Aiken |
| The Red Phone: Manhunt | 2002 | TV Movie | Van Eyck |
| Treasure Planet | 2002 | Video Game | Scroop (voice) |
| Treasure Planet | 2002 | Scroop (voice) | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | 2002 | Armand Dorleac | |
| Along Came a Spider | 2001 | Gary Soneji | |
| Before Night Falls | 2000 | Heberto Zorilla Ochoa | |
| Hidden Agenda | 1999 | Larry Gleason | |
| Gunshy | 1998 | Frankie McGregor | |
| Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | Elgyn | |
| Metro | 1997 | Michael Korda | |
| Dead Girl | 1996 | Mark in the Park | |
| Basquiat | 1996 | Rene Ricard | |
| Strangers | 1996 | TV Series | Arnaud |
| Strange Days | 1995 | Philo Gant | |
| Dead Man | 1995 | Conway Twill | |
| Panther | 1995/I | Tynan | |
| The Crow | 1994 | Top Dollar | |
| The Three Musketeers | 1993 | Rochefort | |
| Romeo Is Bleeding | 1993 | Sal | |
| 1492: Conquest of Paradise | 1992 | Moxica | |
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | Guy of Gisborne | |
| The Doors | 1991 | Paul Rothchild | |
| The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Ulrich Weber |
| Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Vet - Villa Dulce | |
| Suffering Bastards | 1989 | Chazz | |
| Bloodhounds of Broadway | 1989 | Soupy Mike | |
| The Equalizer | 1987-1989 | TV Series | Jarrow Jordan |
| A Man Called Hawk | 1989 | TV Series | Wilcox |
| Talk Radio | 1988 | Kent Michael Joe | |
| Miami Vice | 1988 | TV Series | Wilson Cook |
| Crime Story | 1987-1988 | TV Series | Bobby Meeker |
| The Sicilian | 1987 | Cpl. Silvestro Canio | |
| Night Heat | 1985 | TV Series | Jack Tenelli |
| Curtains | 1983 | Matthew | |
| Clown White | 1981 | TV Movie | Street Punk |
| The Littlest Hobo | 1979-1981 | TV Series | Jeff / Charlie |
| Ticket to Heaven | 1981 | Gerry | |
| Circle of Two | 1981 | Paul | |
| Nothing Personal | 1980 | Peter | |
| Wild Horse Hank | 1979 | Charlie Connors | |
| The Family Man | 1979 | TV Movie | Charlie |
| An American Christmas Carol | 1979 | TV Movie | Choir Leader |
| Title Shot | 1979 | Robber |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Iceman | 2012 | special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Is Back | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Behind the Scenes of 'Seraphim Falls' | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Me and Graham: The Soundtrack of Our Lives | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'Along Came a Spider' | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Making of 'The Three Musketeers' | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
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Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game | Darksiders II (2012) |
Known for movies
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Update: 2024-01-02
