Michael Chernus

Q: Has Michael Chernus won any awards?

While Michael Chernus has not won major awards, he has received praise for his performances, particularly in ensemble casts like 'Orange Is the New Black.'

Q: What was Michael Chernus's first film?

Michael Chernus made his film debut in 'The Last House on the Left' (2009), marking the beginning of his career in the film industry.

Q: What is Michael Chernus's estimated net worth?

Michael Chernus's estimated net worth is around $2 million, reflecting his work in film, television, and theater.

Q: Is Michael Chernus involved in theater?

Yes, Michael Chernus has participated in various theater productions, including Broadway shows, highlighting his skills as a stage actor.

Q: What genres does Michael Chernus typically work in?

Michael Chernus works across multiple genres, including drama, comedy, and action, showcasing his versatility as an actor.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Michael Chernus's career?

A notable milestone in Michael Chernus's career is his role in the acclaimed series 'Orange Is the New Black,' which significantly raised his profile in the industry.

Q: Does Michael Chernus have any children?

Yes, Michael Chernus has one child, though the name has not been publicly disclosed.

Known for

Captain Phillips (2013)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

2013 / Adventure, Biography / 134 min

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo...

Men in Black 3 (2012)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2012 / Action, Adventure / 106 min

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing,...

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

IMDb 7.4 / 10

2017 / Action, Adventure / 133 min

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as...

Name

Michael Chernus

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

8 August 1977, New York City, New York, USA

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Ruth Chernus, Alan Chernus

Estimated Net Worth

$2 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy When a teenager goes missing, it becomes clear that many young men and boys have disappeared at the hands of...	John Wayne Gacy	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	Movie Birthrite When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind...	Paul	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2025	Movie Köln 75 The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize...	Michael Watts	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2024	Movie A Complete Unknown New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from...	Theodore Bikel	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2024	Movie The Wake Three men grieve the loss of their best friend over the course of a tumultuous weekend; their mishaps, witnessed by...	Jack	Not rated
2024	Movie Molli and Max in the Future A man and a woman find their orbits repeatedly colliding over the course of 12 years, four planets, three dimensions...	Turboschmuck	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	Movie Out of My Mind Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is...	Mr. Dimming	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2024	TV After Midnight Celebrated comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet alongside a panel...	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2023	TV Carol & the End of the World As a planetary apocalypse looms, a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos searches for meaning in her last months on...	Eric (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	TV Dead Ringers Elliot and Beverly Mantle are twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes...	Tom	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Courtroom After mistakenly registering to vote, a Filipina immigrant faces deportation and permanent separation from her American husband and newborn child....	John Keathley	Not rated
2022	TV Severance Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When...	Ricken Hale	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2021	Movie Werewolves Within When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace...	Pete Anderton	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV Monsterland In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts...	Tommy	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2020	Movie Materna A psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.	David	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2020	TV Tommy When a former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female Chief of Police for Los Angeles, she uses her unflinching...	Ken Rosey	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	TV Little America Observe the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories of immigrants in America.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie Inez & Doug & Kira When a bipolar woman commits suicide, her sister and her sister's fiancé become entangled in an attempt to discover what...	Doug	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2019	TV Evil Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic...	Dr Paul Wimsimer	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2019	TV Prodigal Son The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers...	Jerry	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2019	TV Perpetual Grace LTD James, a disgraced firefighter turned grifter, seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life’s worsening course as he attempts...	Everly Pirdoo	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	TV Ramy Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his...	Michael	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie The Kindergarten Teacher Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her...	Grant Spinelli	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Furlough In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a...	Bus Driver	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2017	Movie The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.	Male Nurse	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie Wormwood In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War...	Mal	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2017	Movie Spider-Man: Homecoming Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to...	Phineas Mason / The Tinkerer	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie The Dinner Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime...	Dylan Heinz	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2017	Movie The Most Hated Woman in America The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her...	Jon Garth Murray	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	TV Easy This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends...	Kyle	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Complete Unknown Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her...	Clyde Goodwin Jr.	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2016	Movie The Family Fang A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.	Kenny	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	TV Patriot To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official...	Edward Tavner	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2015	Movie Mistress America A college freshman cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her...	Dylan	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	Movie People, Places, Things Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a...	Gary	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	Movie Aloha A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while...	Roy	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie Alex of Venice After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of...	Trofimov	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie Goodbye to All That Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks...	Freddie	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2014	TV Manhattan Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to...	Louis "Fritz" Fedowitz	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Glass Chin After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper...	Brian Colby	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2014	Movie Capturing Captain Phillips A vast and detailed look into the behind the scenes of Captain Phillips (2013). Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, cast and...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	Movie Captain Phillips The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama,...	Shane Murphy	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	TV Orange Is the New Black A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable...	Cal Chapman	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2013	Movie He's Way More Famous Than You When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she...	Michael Chernus	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2012	Movie Jack & Diane The romance between two teenage girls quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.	Jaimie	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2012	TV Elementary A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in...	Edwin Borstein	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	TV The New Normal Los Angeles couple Bryan and David have successful careers and a loving relationship and are ready for a baby. Just...	Paul	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Bourne Legacy New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.	Arthur Ingram	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Men in Black 3 Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men...	Jeffrey Price	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	Movie Higher Ground Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their...	Ned	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2010	Movie Love & Other Drugs Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets...	Jerry	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	TV The Big C A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.	Pastor Rick	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2010	Movie Coach After being dumped by his girlfriend, Nick Scanlon, an unemployed Manhattan slacker, realizes that coasting by on his bed-head charm...	Michael	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	Movie The Messenger Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification...	Alan	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	TV Mercy Mercy is a medical drama which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009 to May 12, 2010. The series initially...	Ryan Flanagan	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	TV The Good Wife Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and...	Spencer Harman	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2009	TV Bored to Death Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to...	Francis Hamm	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2009	Movie The Rebound Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy...	Actor #3 / Twentysomething #1	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	TV Nurse Jackie Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie...	Louie	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	Movie High Street Plumbing Two car thieves steal an FBI surveillance van and become invested in the marriage unraveling inside a bugged suburban home.	Kirby	Not rated
2007	TV Damages Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers...	New Jersey Bar Owner	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2007	Movie Lovely by Surprise Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the...	Humkin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	Movie Winter Passing Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the...	Ben	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Jay Delaney	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Tommy Sullivan	TMDB 7.9 / 10
TBA	Movie The Statement At a beachside resort in 1980 Florida, twenty experts gather for a weekend conference on a global issue that is...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Evil Genius Follows the true story of the 2003 death of Brian Wells, a notorious case known as the “collar bomb” or...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Köln 75 The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize...	Associate Producer Production	TMDB 7.1 / 10

Birthrite

2025 / TMDB 4.6

Köln 75

2025 / TMDB 7.1

A Complete Unknown

2024 / TMDB 7.1

The Wake

2024

Molli and Max in the Future

2024 / TMDB 6.7

Out of My Mind

2024 / TMDB 7.8

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Got a question about Michael Chernus?

What are Michael Chernus's most famous roles?

Michael Chernus is best known for his roles in 'Dead Ringers,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' and 'The Punisher.' His performances in these series have garnered him significant acclaim.

Has Michael Chernus won any awards?

What was Michael Chernus's first film?

What is Michael Chernus's estimated net worth?

Is Michael Chernus involved in theater?

What genres does Michael Chernus typically work in?

What is a notable milestone in Michael Chernus's career?

Does Michael Chernus have any children?