He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and lived in Taos, New Mexico and Hilo, Hawaii until graduating from high school.
[1] He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where studied acting, including improvisational comedy for The Groundlings.
[1] In 2003, at the age of 15, Michael had his first voice acting role as a fictionalized version of then-US Senator Joe Biden on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, who became a recurring character.
In video games, he has voiced Spock in Star Trek: Resurgence,[3] Phineas Welles in The Outer Worlds,[4] Jason Hudson in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,[5] and the dual role of the Sentinel King and the Dark Lord in Doom Eternal.
[8] He also voiced Randall Boggs and Jumba Jookiba in Disney Speedstorm, replacing both the late David Ogden Stiers and Jess Winfield in the latter role.