Michael Aronov

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Aronov is an American actor and playwright. He played the character Schlatko in the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Aronov received The Elliot Norton Award — Best Actor, for originating the lead role in Mauritius at The Huntington Theatre. In 2009 he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at the English Theater in Germany. His one-man show called Manigma was produced in New York City in 2006 and opens again in January 2010 at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row in NYC. Aronov has worked with Terrence McNally on the world premiere of Unusual Acts of Devotion in Philadelphia. Previously he was in Los Angeles under the direction of Estelle Parsons in Salome, starring Al Pacino. Aronov has worked with Oleg Tabakov of The Moscow Art Theatre, Joseph Chaikin, Lee Grant, and others. At the Studio he also portrayed Knut in Strindberg’s Playing with Fire, directed by Lee Grant and then Jean in another Strindberg classic, Miss Julie at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He played opposite Annabella Sciorra in MCC's production of Spain at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; Dionysus in The Bacchae 2.1; and Edgar in an award-winning production of King Lear. On television Aronov has been seen in Life on Mars, Lipstick Jungle, Without a Trace, Threat Matrix, and The Closer. He made several appearances in the Law & Order franchise, worked with the late Bruno Kirby in Barry Levinson's The Beat, among various episodes on Spin City, The ...

Lbs. (2004)

A 315-pound man decides to kick his food addiction by moving to the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Bonifacio
CAST:  Carmine Famiglietti  •  Michael Aronov  •  Miriam Shor

A 315-pound man decides to kick his food addiction by moving to the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Bonifacio
CAST:  Carmine Famiglietti  •  Michael Aronov  •  Miriam Shor

Gun Hill (2014)

A con man, Bird Stevens, assumes the identity of his cop twin brother, Trane, after his death; and goes on a search for his own redemption.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Reggie Rock Bythewood
CAST:  Larenz Tate  •  Tawny Cypress  •  Emayatzy Corinealdi  •  Hisham Tawfiq

A con man, Bird Stevens, assumes the identity of his cop twin brother, Trane, after his death; and goes on a search for his own redemption.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Reggie Rock Bythewood
CAST:  Larenz Tate  •  Tawny Cypress  •  Emayatzy Corinealdi  •  Hisham Tawfiq

The Drop (2014)

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michaël R. Roskam
CAST:  Tom Hardy  •  Noomi Rapace  •  James Gandolfini  •  Matthias Schoenaerts

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michaël R. Roskam
CAST:  Tom Hardy  •  Noomi Rapace  •  James Gandolfini  •  Matthias Schoenaerts

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Cameron Mitchell
CAST:  John Cameron Mitchell  •  Michael Aronov  •  Alberta Watson  •  Andrea Martin

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Cameron Mitchell
CAST:  John Cameron Mitchell  •  Michael Aronov  •  Alberta Watson  •  Andrea Martin

Cold Souls (2009)

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sophie Barthes
CAST:  Paul Giamatti  •  Emily Watson  •  Dina Korzun  •  David Strathairn

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sophie Barthes
CAST:  Paul Giamatti  •  Emily Watson  •  Dina Korzun  •  David Strathairn

Amexicano (2007)

A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Bonifacio
CAST:  Michael Aronov  •  Raúl Castillo  •  Hugo Aleman  •  Carmine Famiglietti

A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Bonifacio
CAST:  Michael Aronov  •  Raúl Castillo  •  Hugo Aleman  •  Carmine Famiglietti

Happy Hour (2012)

When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Devine
CAST:  Daniel Meyer  •  Wade Mylius  •  Elisabeth Hower  •  Michael Shannon

When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Devine
CAST:  Daniel Meyer  •  Wade Mylius  •  Elisabeth Hower  •  Michael Shannon

Operation Finale (2018)

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chris Weitz
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Oscar Isaac  •  Mélanie Laurent  •  Nick Kroll

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chris Weitz
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Oscar Isaac  •  Mélanie Laurent  •  Nick Kroll

Crisis (2021)

Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Jarecki
CAST:  Armie Hammer  •  Evangeline Lilly  •  Kid Cudi  •  Gary Oldman

Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Jarecki
CAST:  Armie Hammer  •  Evangeline Lilly  •  Kid Cudi  •  Gary Oldman

They Shall Not Perish (2017)

The Near East Foundation, known initially as Near East Relief, spearheaded this first great mobilization of international humanitarian assistance in the United States, in September 1915, in response to the Armenian Genocide. Driven by the conviction that ordinary ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Billard
CAST:  Victor Garber  •  Andrea Martin  •  Tony Shalhoub  •  Ron Rifkin

The Near East Foundation, known initially as Near East Relief, spearheaded this first great mobilization of international humanitarian assistance in the United States, in September 1915, in response to the Armenian Genocide. Driven by the conviction that ordinary ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Billard
CAST:  Victor Garber  •  Andrea Martin  •  Tony Shalhoub  •  Ron Rifkin