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Michael Ornstein

Michael Ornstein

Actor · b. 1963 · Passaic, New Jersey, USA

Ornstein studied acting as a child at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and later studied under Stella Adler. After high school, he enrolled in the Mason Gross School of the Arts. He quit after his first year and moved to New York City to begin working professionally. Ornstein's first film credit was in Crossing Delancey, where he played the minor character "Mickey". Television credits include a recurring role as Detective Bonnaventura on Homicide: Life on the Street, and a two-episode arc on Third Watch, as well as parts in Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Ornstein's stage acting credits span twenty-five years worth of new plays in New York City, in addition to creating the role of Louis Ironson in the 1991 World Premiere of Angels in America at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. Ornstein plays Chuck Marstein on Sons of Anarchy.

Series11

  • TV7.3

    Law & Order

    1990 · 723 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.6
  • TV7.5

    NCIS: Los Angeles

    2009 · 1.3K votes

  • TV8.2

    Seinfeld

    1989 · 2.4K votes

  • TV8.4

    Sons of Anarchy

    2008 · 3.4K votes

  • TV7.9

    Third Watch

    1999 · 238 votes

  • TV8.1
  • TV8.0

    Mayans M.C.

    2018 · 844 votes

  • TV5.9

    The Abandons

    2025 · 123 votes

  • TV5.5

    Good Game

    2017 · 2 votes

Movies9

  • Movie
  • Movie5.9

    Crossing Delancey

    1988 · 62 votes

  • Movie5.4

    The Saint

    2017 · 299 votes

  • Movie3.6

    Man of the Year

    1995 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Book of Life

    1998 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Kansas City

    1996 · 101 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Blindsided

    1993 · 6 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Snow Days

    Let It Snow

    1999 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Zelos

    2015 · 6 votes