Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker is one of those actors who makes every scene he's in just a little bit more dangerous, and I mean that as the highest compliment. The guy from Jasper, Alabama went to DePaul and came out the other side with this raw, unpredictable intensity that Hollywood can't manufacture — you either have it or you don't. His turn in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is genuinely unsettling even decades later, and then he somehow pivoted to being weirdly lovable as Merle Dixon on The Walking Dead, the kind of racist redneck you hate but can't look away from. And Yondu in the Guardians of the Galaxy films? That blue-finned space pirate with a heart of gold absolutely wrecked me emotionally. Rooker has this gift for making morally complicated men feel achingly human, and not enough people give him his flowers for it.

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Name (English)

Michael Rooker

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・ルーカー

Reading

まいける・るーかー

Born

April 6, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Jasper, Alabama, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

High school

Wells Community Academy High School

University

DePaul University

• Official sitehttps://www.michaelrookeronline.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/michael_rooker/
• Xhttps://x.com/Michael_Rooker
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Rooker
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q525065

Tags

• Alabama
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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