Michael St. Michaels was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and was once a jet-setting hair-dresser to the world's elite who traveled to every European hot spot in the 70s. He has worked in and around Hollywood for decades. St. Michaels is best known to cinephiles for his work in the 80s cult curiosity The Video Dead. 2016's The Greasy Strangler was his first lead performance, for which he received rave reviews and was awarded Best Actor from the Knoxville Horror Film Festival.