Michael Chiklis is an American actor, television director, television producer and musician.
He is best known for his role as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002.
What has Michael Chiklis done since the shield?
After The Shield, Chiklis played Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish, The Thing in two Fantastic Four films, and Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama No Ordinary Family.
Additionally, he co-starred as Vincent Savino in the CBS crime drama Vegas. He also portrayed Curly Howard in the biopic film The Three Stooges.
In 2014 Chiklis joined the cast of American Horror Story for its fourth season, American Horror Story: Freak Show. The following year he was cast as Nathaniel Barnes, in the second season of Gotham, as a series regular.
He also featured in Murder (2018), Hubie Halloween (2020), Coyote (2021), Don’t Look Up (2021), Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022), and many more.