Mike Lindell

What fascinates me about Lindell is the sheer force of will. A guy from Mankato, Minnesota, who bet everything on a single product and built a real fortune from a pillow deserves credit for raw hustle, whatever you make of the rest. But his pivot from salesman to political crusader turned him into one of the most polarizing figures in America, and that Razzie for Worst Actor feels almost symbolic of how easily he became a punchline. To me he reads as someone whose greatest asset, total conviction, is also his biggest liability. He simply does not know how to stop, and that makes him endlessly watchable, for better or worse.

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Name (English)

Mike Lindell

Name (Japanese)

マイク・リンデル

Reading

まいく・りんでる

Born

June 28, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Mankato, Minnesota, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / film producer / philanthropist / writer / film screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

High school

Chaska High School

Awards & achievements

• 2020 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

• Official sitehttps://michaeljlindell.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/michaeljlindell/
• Xhttps://x.com/realMikeLindell
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lindell
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16194165

Tags

• Minnesota
• entrepreneur
• film producer
• philanthropist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.