Michael Massee

Michael Groo Massee was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1952, the younger of two children born to Jack Groo Massee and his wife, Holly (née Hoover), of Prairie Village, Kansas.^[1][2]

The family moved to Paris, France, during Massee's childhood. After high school, Massee moved back to the United States, settling in New York, where he graduated from Hunter College and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

In 1993, Massee portrayed the character Funboy in the film The Crow, starring Brandon Lee. Massee was the actor who fired the shot that accidentally killed Lee on the set, as a result of an improperly prepared prop gun. Traumatized by the event, he returned to New York and took a year off from acting, and never saw the film. In an interview in 2005, Massee said that he still had nightmares about it, stating, "I don't think you ever get over something like that."^[3]

In 1995, Massee played the cop Newton in the film Tales from the Hood. He provided the voice for the villain Spellbinder in The Batman, as well as appearing on the television series 24 as the villain Ira Gaines. He provided the voice of Bruce Banner for the Ultimate Avengers animated film and its sequel, Ultimate Avengers 2. He appeared in the film Seven alongside Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. He appeared in David Lynch's Lost Highway as Andy. He played the physical manifestation of Management (a.k.a. Lucius Belyakovin) on HBO's Carnivàle. He guest-starred in The X-Files episode "The Field Where I Died". He also appeared in the 2005 NBC TV miniseries Revelations as the main antagonist. In 2006, he guest-starred in Criminal Minds as a serial killer on death row. He also guest-starred in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Reunion" as a rock star. He appeared in the American TV series FlashForward as villain Dyson Frost. He appeared as a hunter, Kubrick, on the series Supernatural in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Massee portrayed imprisoned serial killer Charles Hoyt in the first two seasons of the TV series Rizzoli & Isles. He played Gustav Fiers / Gentleman in 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man and reprised the role in the 2014 sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.^[4] In 2014, Massee, who spoke French, appeared in the French series Interventions.^{[citation needed]}

Massee married Ellen Sussdorf in 1997, with whom he had two children: Jack and Lily. The couple owned a clothing boutique in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Massee died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016, at the age of 64.^[2]