Gender
Male
Profile Information
Member's contact info (email and phone or agent):
michaelbakkensen@gmail.com
Member's age range:
36-40
Member's Affiliations:
SAG-AFTRA, AEA
Member's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)
White/ Caucasian Height: 6 Weight: 175 Eyes: Brown Hair length: Short/ Med Hair color: Brown Suit: 40 L Shirt: Med Sleeve: 35 Neck: 15 1/2 Shoe: 11.5 Inseam: 33 Waist: 33 Glove: Large Body Markings: N/A Build or Body Style: Athletic Fluent Languages: German Special Wardrobe: N/A Other: N/A
Portrayable & believable accents or dialects (e.g. Southern, Chinese, Spanish, German, Boston, etc.):
Southern/ Spanish/ German/ French/ British/ Irish/ Romanian
Member's Performance Skills:
Aerobics, Artist-drawing, Baseball, Basketball, Bicycling-general, Billiards-Pool, Body Surfing, Boogie Boarding, Bowling, Card Playing - Hearts, Card Playing - Spades, Card Playing - Poker, Card Playing - Texas Hold 'em, Dance - ballroom, Dance - robot, Driving - car, Driving - stick shift-standard, Equestrian-bareback, Equestrian - English, Equestrian - general, Equestrian - Western, Fencing, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Football, Frisbee - general, Frisbee - golf, Guitar - 6 string, Guitar - 12 string, Guitar - electric, Hackey Sack, Handball, Hiking, Improvisation, Mountain Biking, Professional Speaker, Running - general, Running - long distance, Running - sprint, Singer - Bari-Tenor, Singer - Baritone, Snow Skiing - general, Snow Skiing - cross country, Snow Skiing - freestyle, Snowshoe, Soccer, Softball, Stage Combat, Swimming - general ability, Swimming - back stroke, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - butterfly, Swimming - freestyle, Teleprompter, Tennis, Track and Field - long jump, Track and Field - shot put, Track and Field - relay, Track and Field - sprinting, Voices-characters, Whistler, Yoga, Industry Professional
Recent noteworthy acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):
COMMERCIALS (National) Verizon Fios........Dad........McCann 2013-2014 Direct TV.............Office Guy...McCann 2012 Microsoft............Husband....Gray 2010 TV The Americans........CIA Security Agent....FX......2015 Unforgettable........Dr. Paul Hughes..........CBS....2014 Elementary.............Reporter.....................CBS.....2013 Deception...............Reporter (Recurring)..CBS.....2013 The Good Wife.......Husband.....................CBS....2012 Royal Pains............Woody Kegan.............USA.....2012 Law& Order: CI......Security.......................NBC....2010 Law&Order.............Jason Rundberg.........NBC....2007 FILM Victoriana......Charlie .......Jadrian Steele .....2010 CORPORATE EDUCATIONALS Novo Scenarios.....Stanley ......Todd Street/ Novo Nordisk 2015 THEATER ETHER DOME .......Horace Wells ....Huntington (IRNE Best Actor) THREE GIFTS....Richard Kuh.......Target Margin (Off Bway) VENUS IN FUR.......Thomas................Alley (Houston) RX............................Simon..................Primary Stages (Off Bway) OUT OF ICELAND.....Hal.....................Soho Rep (Off Bway) LONG DAY'S JOURNEY..Jamie.....Actors Theare Louisville ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL..Parolles...Shakepeare Thtre. DC THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT..Thomas Kyd...Mark Taper Forum (LA) NOISES OFF..........Garry..........................Hartford Stage FESTEN................Michael.......................Music Box (Broadway) NOISES OFF..........Garry.................Brooks Atkinson (Broadway) VOICE OVERS - Audio Books: OFF THE PAGE (for Recorded Books, Jodi Piccoult) THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE (Recorded Books) BIG GAME (Recorded Books) SALT (Recorded Books-- Earphones Award Winner-AudioFile) FROGGY STYLE (Audible)
Training or acting classes (class name, teacher & where):
MFA in theater from UC San Diego Shakespeare Lab-- Rob Clare, New York Acting for the Camera-- Katherine Zemora Benson, One on One Studios, New York Clowning-- Chris Bayes, New York
Other non-acting related work, hobbies or charities (not skills) in which this actor is involved (1 or 2 word descriptions):
Write poetry Write Songs
