After scene-stealing performances on Game of Thrones, Orphan Black, and Nashville, Michiel Huisman — television’s most omnipresent supporting player — is poised to enter the next phase of his career: movie star.
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You may not know his name, but chances are you've seen Michiel Huisman's face.
After acting on and off for 20 years in the Netherlands, where Huisman was born and raised, he won his first major American role on HBO's Treme in 2010, playing tortured busker Sonny. From there, Huisman found himself starring opposite three of Hollywood's most beloved leading ladies in rapid succession. In 2012, he played Liam McGuinnis, the charismatic record producer who wooed Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton), on ABC's Nashville; in 2014, he played Cal Morrison, a mysterious man from Sarah Manning's (Tatiana Maslany) past, on BBC America's Orphan Black; and that same year, on HBO's Game of Thrones, he replaced Ed Skrein as Daario Naharis, the calculating soldier with a soft spot for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). And during the television shows that didn't star Huisman, you probably still caught a glimpse of him as Gisele Bundchen's suave leading man in the decadent Baz Luhrmann-directed Chanel No. 5 commercial.
"They shot at different periods, but then they aired in the same period, which we never realized could happen," Huisman recently told BuzzFeed News of his huge five years while reclining in an oversize armchair at The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. "That was never something I aspired to, really. It just turned out that way. I just always imagine that the world is so big now, I wasn't really everywhere. But, at the same time, if you want to play the male lead in movies, people have to know who you are."
Huisman on Nashville.
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