Mig Macario is a Filipino

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

-Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 actor

Actor

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. He played the role of George Amahit in the comedy series TV series Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...

 and has a recurring character, Mr. Spezza, on The Troop

The Troop

The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood...

.

Biography

Born in the Philippines and named after the Filipino revolutionary, general, and actor Macario Sakay, Macario is the youngest of six children and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Marcario a practicing Nichiren Buddhist with the Soka Gakkai.

Early in his career, Macario played petty criminal characters in shows like 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focused on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools,...

, Wiseguy

Wiseguy

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, and The Commish

The Commish

The Commish is a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1996. The series focused on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in upstate New York....

. Macario broke out from these roles when he played the lead, Song Liling, in the Tony Award

Tony Award

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 winning play M. Butterfly

M. Butterfly

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 at the Arts Club Theatre. Macario's performance earned him a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination for best newcomer. His producing, writing and directing debut was on the highly rated Summer Love - The Documentary, which explored rave culture and aired on Much Music.

Macario has appeared in over 40 film and television projects; working with artists such as Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...

, Maury Chaykin

Maury Chaykin

Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-born Canadian actor. Best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, he was also known for his work as a character actor in many films and on television programs.-Personal life:...

, Paul Sorvino

Paul Sorvino

Paul Anthony Sorvino is an American actor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law, and is possibly best known for his roles as Paulie Cicero, a portrayal of Paul Vario in the film Goodfellas and Sgt. Phil Cerreta on the police procedural and legal drama television series Law...

, Dean McDermott

Dean McDermott

Dean McDermott is a Canadian-American actor best known in the United States for having married Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling, with whom he appeared in the observational documentary shows Tori & Dean: Inn Love and Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, and for having acted out the role of Constable...

 and Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy

Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...

. Mig made history when he was cast as George Amahit on the Gemini award winning, dark comedy Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...

. Macario has had roles in FRINGE

Fringe

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 for Fox, Nickelodeon's The Troop

The Troop

The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood...

, and Killer Mountain the SyFy

Syfy

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 network.

Selected filmography

Year	Show	Title	Role
1986	Fifteen Fifteen (TV series) Hillside is a Canadian-American teen drama that aired on YTV in Canada and Nickelodeon in the United States from 1991 to 1993. Created and produced by John T...		Miguel
1987	21 Jump Street 21 Jump Street 21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focused on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools,...	"Gotta Finish the Riff"	Dale
1987	21 Jump Street	"After School Special"	Tito
1988	21 Jump Street	Slippin' into Darkness	Ranger No. 4
1990	Neon Rider Neon Rider Neon Rider is a Canadian drama television series which first aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the titular character, a man named Michael Terry who quits his job as a therapist to become a mentor for troubled kids which he brings to his...	Father and Son	Vincent
1991–1992	Northwood Northwood (TV series) Northwood was a Canadian drama television series which aired on CBC Television from 1991 to 1994 about the lives of teenagers living in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The series was created and produced by Nick Orchard....	Bill
1992	The Commish The Commish The Commish is a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1996. The series focused on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in upstate New York....	Charlie Don't Surf	Tuan
1993	Madison Madison (TV series) Madison is a Canadian teen drama television series that premiered on Global Television Network on September 21, 1993. The first season of the series was filmed between 1991 and 1993 and released in 1992 and 1993 to classrooms as a learning aid under the title of Working It Out at...		Christopher
1996	The Sentinel The Sentinel (TV series) The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series that aired on UPN in the United States from 1996 to 1999. It premiered on March 20, 1996, and ran for 65 episodes . The series later reaired on Syfy.-Plot and characters:...	Killers (1996)	Danny Choi
1997	Dad's Week Off Dad's Week Off Dad's Week Off is a television film that premiered on Showtime in 1997. It was written and directed by Neal Israel, and starred Henry Winkler, Olivia d'Abo and Richard Jeni.-Plot:...		Lew
1997	The Adventures of Shirley Holmes The Adventures of Shirley Holmes The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1996 to 1999. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series...	The Case of the Singer's Secret	Ray Wong
1997	Medusa's Child		Ian
1998	The Sentinel'	Prisoner X	Ray Liotta
1999	Summer Love the Documentary (Co-Director/Producer)		The Raver
1999	Nightman	Ring of Fire	Eddie Chin
1999	Hope Island Hope Island (TV series) Hope Island is an American television show that originally aired on PAX TV in the 1999-2000 season. It was based on Ballykissangel, a popular drama that aired on the BBC One....	Each Tub Must Stand on Its Own	Henry Dobyns
2000	Cold Squad	Slave to the Job
2002	Hikaru No Go Hikaru no Go is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...		Yan Hai/Pi Ling's friend
2003	Master Keaton Master Keaton is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 18 volumes . An anime adaptation of the series aired between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television...		Shou
2004	The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...	Deja Voo Doo	Foley
2004	The Collector The Collector (TV series) The Collector is a Canadian Supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil...	Another Collector	Escobar
2004	The Final Cut		Rom
2005	Cold Squad	C'mon I Tip Waitresses	Rosario Dix
2007	Everest Mini Series Everest '82 Everest '82 is an Canadian drama film miniseries directed by Graeme Campbell and written by Keith Ross Leckie. It aired in the fall of 2008 on CBC television and was produced by Alberta Filmworks....		Sungdare
2007	Less Than Kind Less Than Kind Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...		George Amahit
2009	The Troop The Troop The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood...		Mr. Spezza
2009	Santa Baby 2 Santa Baby 2 (film) Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe is a 2009 sequel to ABC Family's Santa Baby. Jenny McCarthy, Lynne Griffin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Richard Side, and Gabe Khouth all reprise their roles from the original.-Plot:...		Sandy
2010	Killer Mountain		Yeshe
2010-11	Fringe Fringe (TV series) Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...		Tech (Tucker)
2011	Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time (TV series) Once Upon a Time is an American fairy tale drama television series that premiered on Sunday October 23, 2011, on ABC. New episodes air Sunday nights at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT....		Bashful
2011	Sanctuary	Untouchable	Wahid

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