About Michael

Born and raised in Boston, Michael Southworth is an actor and writer who lives in Los Angeles.

        Southworth landed his first feature lead role in Love in Country, a Vietnam War epic that was released in 2023. In 2022, he starred as the antagonist in the upcoming The Long Game with Dennis Quaid and Jay Hernandez, as well as in The Lonesome Soldier, featuring John Ashton, Jesse James and Allison McAtee. The Long Game premiered at the 2023 SXSW Festival, taking home the Narrative Spotlight Award, and The Lonesome Soldier was released in theaters on November 3rd, 2023.

Southworth also has upcoming starring roles in The Ice Bucket Challenge, a feature to be produced by acclaimed novelist Casey Sherman, and DICKS, a comedy about fraternity life that is written and directed by Jeff Fisher (Killer Movie).

On the writing front, Southworth wrote The Diamondback, an action-crime western inspired by one of Arizona’s most notorious outlaws. After the script advanced to the Semi Finals of the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, he began development on the film in 2023 with Thunder Road Films. The film is scheduled for filming in late 2024, with Southworth set to star opposite Dennis Quaid.

        Southworth was classically trained in acting and film at Cornell University where he worked on over two dozen films and plays. He also took time off for roles in Paramount Pictures’ Same Kind of Different As Me, CBS Films’ Patriots Day, and Sweeney Killing Sweeney. Some of his stage highlights include playing Orpheus in David Feldshuh’s Eurydice, and Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, which he starred in and co-directed.

        Cornell’s School of Performing & Media Arts provided Southworth with versatile training, including the Stanislavski Method, Shakespeare, the Chekhov Technique and contemporary drama. Michael has been described by Cornell professor and Pulitzer Prize Finalist David M. Feldshuh as a "talented young actor with an admirable work ethic and considerable skill" and as "one of the most gracious, compelling actors it has ever been my pleasure to teach" by Bruce Levitt (Chair of Cornell's Theatre & Film Department '86-'95).