Biography

Michael Mulheren (born May 29, 1957, in Middletown, New Jersey) is an American actor, 6′ 2″ (188 cm) tall, who grew up in Red Bank, New Jersey, as the youngest of six children in an Irish Catholic family. He attended Red Bank Catholic High School (1975) and the University of Kentucky, where he studied history and political science. He made his Broadway debut in On the Waterfront (1995) and earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for the Second Man in the 1999 revival of Kiss Me, Kate, with additional Broadway credits in The Titanic, The Boy from Oz, La Cage aux Folles, Spider-Man, and Looped. He is a SAG-AFTRA member, married to Amanda, and has two children, Conor and Fiona. His most notable film credits include Fred Business in Johnny Suede (1991, with Brad Pitt), Foreman in Faithful (1996, with Cher), Cop in Elevator in Bringing Out the Dead (1999, directed by Scorsese), Herb Coopersmith in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001, directed by Woody Allen), AC Craney in Invincible (2006, with Samuel L. Jackson), Carvin "Big Buster" Waggle in The Ten (2007, with Jessica Alba), Eddie in Fool's Gold (2008, with George Clooney and Kate Hudson), Judge McFate in Miranda's Victim (2023, with Abigail Breslin), and Eddie in Which Brings Me to You (2024). On television he is best known as George Sibley in Salem (2014, WGN America), Chief Perolli in Rescue Me (2004, 4 episodes, HBO), Jim Harper in Royal Pains (2009, 6 episodes), Captain Lynch in Person of Interest (2011, 3 episodes), Edward Nelson in Daredevil (2015, 3 episodes, Netflix), and Frederick Sinclair in Fallout (2024, Prime Video), with over 20 episodes across the Law & Order franchise in which he played the same character — Judge Sheldon Taylor — on three different series. He also voiced Bob Crawford Sr. in Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018).