- Born
- Birth nameMikhail Sevumyan
- Nickname
- Misha
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Mikhail Sebastian was born at 9:00am in Baku, February 26, 1973 to Armenian parents. He had a passion for dramatic arts since a child growing up in the former USSR. As a high school student, Mikhail had several stage appearances in various Russian plays. Directed and performed short play "Boris Godunov" based on book by famous Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Mikhail's love of literature and history led him to believe acting is the place where all his dreams as a performer/actor can be realized. Mikhail considered his acting a unique place where he can not only be a part of every day dramatic situation we face on daily basis, he could also implement his own personality into any character he plays. In 1995 he came to the United States on a business visa. Having lived his life in communist USSR, the American culture was very appealing. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, Mikhail became stateless. All efforts to obtain citizenship from the republics of former USSR were useless. Continues to live and work in Los Angeles, CA. Political view: democrat. Fluent in Russian, some conversational Spanish. Love to dance, spend some time traveling alone. Enjoys fashion. Loves rain, storm. Favorite time of the year: fall and winter.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Mikhail's scene for "The Bong Connection" has been shot at his own one bedroom apartment in Houston, Texas.
- At the age of 16 had to flee Azerbaijan for Armenia to continue his high school education due to war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1988-1989 over the territory called Nagorno-Karabakh that Armenia claimed as its own.
- First job in USA was to deliver pizza flyers. Worked at grocery store in Houston. International Travel Specialist by profession.
- Worked at Oil Refinary and in library in a small town of Krasnovodsk located on the cost of the Caspian Sea before entering Turkmenistan State University where he studied English and German as major. Due to political and national discrimination in Turkmenistan had to flee to the USA without completing his degree at the University.
- Residing in Los Angeles, California
- Try to take anything from this life, either it's good or bad. As one day you turn around and realize that your game was over. Life is beautiful, and your existence in this planet is amazing, so just let it be. Dreams always come true, maybe not soon enough as we expected but they do turn into reality.
- Life takes a good look at reality.....so discover the world, discover yourself, and take it all...
- Sometimes my accent gets in to my way of getting some parts in different films (either for lead or supporting role). I do have an accent, and I do not hide it, but real problem comes at the time of audition when I have to open my mouth and perform a monologue or have cold reading done, that's when the cast directors could notice my Russian accent. It happened to me few times when I was not able to get a part because of my accent......Well, this is my accent, and either you like it or not, it cannot be changed. I guess I have to be proud of myself of being able to have my accent...... To be or not to be? I would say let it be.
- Love is one of the greatest thing given to human being. With love in your heart we can rule the whole world. Love brings happiness to people's life, love makes you stronger, but in most cases... love is painful, harmful, and destructive. When love hurts it gives you a lot of strength to overcome your pain, but eventually wounds will be healed.
- The hardest way of being an actor is to have someone from casting to say in your face that you were not what they were looking for. I was getting that a lot lately where the only parts I was able to get had to portray either killer, mafia, gangster, terrorist and etc. It's like a birth mark stuck on my forehead that I belong to that category of people need to be played. Sometimes it hurts when you hear that constantly but you have no choice. At least being happy getting some jobs, but I just do not want that bad image I portray in different films keep hunting me forever. I just want one day to be able to play other roles rather than mafia, killer and etc.
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