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In November 2000, he was arrested for assault after slapping his girlfriend/manager Margaret Brychka after a fight in a Vancouver bar.
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In 2003 he was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series Gemini Award for his appearance in Just Cause.
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He won an Emmy in 2002 for James Dean in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie category.
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He was nominated for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program Cable ACE Award in 1983 for The Sound of Murder.
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Michael is an accomplished Jazz singer and musician and often performs live in Canada.
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He won a Best Dramatic Actor Tony Award in 1974.
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Actor Stephen Macht was a roommate of his at Dartmouth.
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He threatened a lawsuit against then US Attorney General Janet Reno who criticized Law & Order in an anti-media-violence publicity campaign. Moriarty believes this controversy is why he was let go from the series.
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He served on the editorial board for New York Quarterly at one time.
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He graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1963.
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He received a Best Actor Award for Too Far to Go at the San Remo Film Festival.
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He received a Theatre World and a Drama Desk Award for his part in the Broadway production of Find Your Way Home.
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Mr. Moriarty currently lives in British Columbia, in Canada.
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Mr. Moriarty has stated that he intends to run for President of the United States in 2008.
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In 1973 he starred in a made for TV version of The Glass Menagerie that also featured Sam Waterston, who would later replace him on Law & Order.
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His first big role was in Bang the Drum Slowly co-starring with Robert De Niro.
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He is six foot, four and a half inches tall.
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His grandfather, George Moriarty, was a player, manager and umpire in Major League Baseball.
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He was a Fulbright Scholar at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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His biggest success was playing the vicious Nazi bureaucrat Erik Dorf in the 1978 mini series Holocaust.
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He attended the University of Detroit High School.
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He is a Golden Globe, Tony and two-time Emmy winner