Michael Lerner is known to be the brother of Kenneth Lerner who is an American television, stage and film actor. He played Principal Flutie in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Ken Lerner siblings: Meet Michael Lerner
Lerner has only one sibling and he is called Michael C. Lerner. Michael is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Barton Fink.
Michael was born on June 22, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, United States and he is 81 years old. He is the elder brother of Ken Lerner.
Michael was born of Romanian-Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, a fisherman and antique dealer. He was raised in Solon, Ohio and Red Hook. His brother Ken and nephew Sam are also actors.
Michael began his acting career in the late 1960s at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. At the age of 24, he appeared as “Hieronymous the Miser” in a KPFA radio production of Michel de Ghelderode’s Breugelesque play, Red Magic.
In 1970, Michael made his film debut in Alex in Wonderland. He then went on to appear in supporting roles in various Hollywood movies such as The Candidate, St. Ives and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
In 1991, after co-starring in Harlem Nights, Michael played film producer Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2013, Michael appeared in a Season 4 episode of Glee as Sidney Greene, an investor in the revival of the Broadway musical Funny Girl. His character is on the panel of judges, watching the Rachel Berry character audition for the lead role. He reprised his role as Sidney in Season 5 in several New York-based episodes of the series, as Funny Girl opens on Broadway.
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