Age: 71
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Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor who mainly plays roles of antagonists. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date, including Slither (2006), Super (2010), and The Suicide Squad (2021). Rooker's other notable roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Sherman McMaster in Tombstone (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Detective Edward Kennesaw in Deceiver (1997), Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector (1999), Detective Jake Riley in Replicant (2001), and Buddy in F9 (2021).
Michael Rooker
Officer Merle Dixon
for Officer Merle Dixon in Shattered Image
Suggested by castingsinmyblood
The Magi institute is a psychiatric hospital dedicated to helping people to gain "A full faculty recovery". Patients include the physically frail Mark Grayson, the burn victim and veteran Al Simmons, and the institute's biggest success story, police detective Sara Pezzini. But when a comic book artist named Ethan Crane begins sending letters and pictures to the patients of things that couldn't possibly be real, things go more than crazy. We live in the real world. Superheroes don't exist. And yet there are still dragons. There are still creatures spawned in the depths of hell. And there are those of us who are bulletproof. A shattered image is still an image.
