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John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins TV Listings

ChannelDate & TimeTitleBuy
STARZSat, Nov 21, 5:15 PMFired Up!Buy
SPIKETue, Nov 24, 2:00 PMCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationBuy
SPIKEWed, Nov 25, 1:00 AMCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationBuy
CINEMAXThu, Nov 26, 2:30 PMYes ManBuy
STARZThu, Nov 26, 5:50 PMFired Up!Buy
CINEMAXThu, Nov 26, 10:00 PMYes ManBuy
STARZFri, Nov 27, 2:50 AMFired Up!Buy
STARZFri, Nov 27, 3:35 PMFired Up!Buy
MOMAXeFri, Nov 27, 7:10 PMYes ManBuy
COMEDYSat, Nov 28, 1:00 AMStill WaitingBuy
MOMAXeSat, Nov 28, 2:15 AMYes ManBuy
HBO2eSat, Nov 28, 7:00 AMFred ClausBuy
TNTSat, Nov 28, 2:00 PMBlade: TrinityBuy
CINEMAXMon, Nov 30, 9:30 AMYes ManBuy
CINEMAXMon, Nov 30, 6:30 PMYes ManBuy
STARZWed, Dec 2, 1:45 PMFired Up!Buy
STARZWed, Dec 2, 10:00 PMFired Up!Buy
CINEMAXFri, Dec 4, 4:15 PMFred ClausBuy

John Michael Higgins Biography

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  • Birth Place: Boston, MA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 02/12/1963, Aquarius
  • Profession: Actor
A military brat who moved myriad times while growing up, this boyishly handsome player began acting in regional theater as a child and continued to pursue an entertainment career after graduating college. Although he has played a striking number of gay roles — a flamboyant dog owner in Best in Show, real-life tennis star Bill Tilden in the off-Broadway play Big Bill, a Catholic priest dying of AIDS in a controversial episode of Nothing Sacred that never aired on network TV — Higgins is a straight actor who masterfully embodies over-the-top characters of all orientations. His breakthrough role came in 1996, when he did a fine (if at times grotesque) impression of David Letterman in the TV-movie The Late Shift. While the real late-night talk-show host despised Higgins' work, it got the actor noticed and he quickly became a perennial small-screen guest star, usually playing characters that were bitchy, uptight or both. His uproarious turn in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary Best in Show jump-started his film career, and he subsequently appeared in supporting roles in both blockbusters (Blade: Trinity) and indies (Guest's A Mighty Wind).
John Michael Higgins Fast Facts:
  • Studied literature at Amherst College.
  • Played Kurt, Elaine's balding boyfriend, in a 1997 Seinfeld episode.
  • Said artistic influences include playwright Edward Albee and actor Richard Burton.
    John Michael Higgins Relationships:
  • Margaret Welsh - Wife
  • Walter Lloyd Higgins - Son

  • College:
  • Amherst College, Amherst, MA (1985)
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