Education
Hayden graduated from the Juilliard School.
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Michael Hayden
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Stage Hayden appeared in several productions at the Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, including The Matchmaker (1991) and All My Sons (1997). At the Lincoln Center Theater he appeared in Far East (1999) and the musical Dessa Rose (2005). He played "Prince Hal" in Henry IV opposite Kevin Kline in 2003.
He appeared in the play Festen on Broadway in 2006.
In 2010 he played the roles of both "Henry V" and "Richard II" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, District of Columbia. Hayden has appeared at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in many works over the years. Television Hayden has appeared on the television series Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as Hack.
He was a series regular on the American Broadcasting Company series "Murder One." Film Hayden starred in the title role of William R. Pace"s 1999 film Charming Billy as Jeremiah William Starkman, a commingling of Charles Whitman and Charles Starkweather who shoots random people off a rural water tower and reflects on the incidents in his life that led up to lieutenant The Dog in the Manger - Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2009.
Achievements
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Hayden made his Broadway debut in the role of "Billy" in the 1994 Broadway revival of Carousel, for which he won the Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also played the role in the Royal National Theatre production in London in 1993, receiving an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. Foreign his work in the 2001 Broadway revival of Judgment at Nuremberg he received the Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actor in a Play. Foreign this work he received the company"s Emery Battis Award. Hayden"s portrayal won the Best Actor award at the American Film Institute/Los Angeles Film Festival.
