Michael Paré
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Michael Kevin Paré (born October 9, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and on the series Starhunter (2000–2004).
Michael Paré | |
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 Paré at the Chiller Theatre Expo in 2014 | |
| Born | Michael Kevin Paré[1] (1958-10-09) October 9, 1958 (age 65) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | The Culinary Institute of America |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, chef |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouses | Marisa Roebuck
(m. 1986; div. 1988)Marjolein Booy
(m. 1992) |
| Children | 1 |
I've been playing heroes, and heroes are not normal people. You can't find a leading man doing a nine-to-five job on Wall Street. And that hurt because they said, "You can't play a regular person." Tom Cody was also bigger than life. And in The Philadelphia Experiment, I'm a time traveler for god's sake. So for a long time, all I played was cops, heroes and soldiers.[2]
—Paré on being typecast as a macho man.