Michael Constantine Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" at the 2003 Satellite Awards
• Studied acting under actor Howard Da Silva and began his career as an understudy for Paul Muni in "Inherit the Wind․"
• Found consistent work on television after his on and off Broadway careers came to a halt, then made a comeback as a Windex-loving patriarch in the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding․"
• Though he is of Greek ancestry, he has played a number of ethnicities and is able to convincingly recreate French, Italian and Russian accents
• By coincidence, he ran into a friend studying acting out of state a day after having a conversation about her, and decided it was fate that he should accompany her back to New York to become an actor
• Has a passion for writing screenplays and has done significant research for one about the life story of Kemal Attaturk