Sean Cameron Michael

South African-born actor, Sean Cameron Michael, has performed in over 80 local and international television series, shorts and feature films in his home country.

International audiences first met Sean back in 2005 playing Don Beatty in Dean Devlin’s Emmy-winning mini-series The Triangle. In 2008 he joined the cast of 24 playing controversial UN worker, Charles Solenz, in Fox’s multi Emmy and Golden Globe nominated feature 24:Redemption (opposite Jon Voight and Kiefer Sutherland). Over 12 million viewers tuned in for the premiere.

More recently Sean worked with Games of Thrones’ Charles Dance on the Emmy-nominated Strike Back series, as well as Oscar winner William Hurt in BBC Films’ Royal Television Society’s award-winning feature The Challenger Disaster.

In 2013 he secured the recurring role of Richard Guthrie in the Michael Bay produced pirate adventure series Black Sails for Starz Entertainment. Season 1 premiered in January this year to the highest ratings for original series in the cable channel’s history and recently garnered 4 Emmy nominations and 2 wins. As a 2014 Emmy nomination contender for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Sean recently wrapped on season 2 which premieres January 24th 2015 in the US.

Currently the busy actor can be seen playing the supporting role of Lester in Zentropa Entertainment’s feature The Salvation for director Kristian Levring. The Danish western premiered in May at Cannes to a six-minute standing ovation and stars Mads Mikkelsen, Jonathan Pryce and Eva Green.

He is repped by Janet du Plessis (APM) in South Africa and Donna Massetti (SMS Talent, Inc.) in the US.