Michael Boatman Biography

Michael Boatman studied theater at Western Illinois University playing major roles in plays ranging from Purlie Victorious to The Seagull and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He performed at the Kennedy Center in the Irene Ryan National Competition for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Award. After graduation he worked for a casting director for a month and was then cast as Motown in Hamburger Hill which was shot in the Philippines and which he notes was the first film job for nearly every actor in the movie including himself. Upon completion of Hamburger Hill Boatman moved to New York where he performed off-Broadway and worked various jobs. He then relocated to Los Angeles for ABC's dramatic series China Beach. Boatman's television career took off and his roles since have included Muscle in which he co-starred with Alan Ruck as well as The Jackie Thomas Show. He has guest-starred on The Larry Sanders Show and Living Single and has been in numerous movies for television including Fourth Story for cable In the Line of Duty: Street War and the PBS special The Trial of Bernard Goetz.

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