Michael Biehn
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama,
to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln,
Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona,
where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left
prematurely two years later to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.
His first big role was as a psychotic fan stalking
Lauren Bacall in
The Fan (1981) and later appeared in
The Lords of Discipline (1983).
He hit the big-time when he was cast as Kyle Reese, the man sent back
through time to stop
Arnold Schwarzenegger in
James Cameron's
The Terminator (1984). This
established a good working relationship with Cameron, a relationship
that should have catapulted Biehn to international stardom. He starred
in Cameron's subsequent films,
Aliens (1986) and
The Abyss (1989), the latter a standout
performance as unstable Navy SEAL officer Lt. Hiram Coffey. In the
1990s he starred in films like
Navy Seals (1990),
K2 (1991) and was particularly memorable as
Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993). Biehn
is married and the father of five sons.