Michael Marisi Ornstein
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Michael Marisi Ornstein (b. 1963, Passaic, New Jersey) in is an American actor and painter.
He studied acting as a child at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and later studied under Stella Adler. After high school, he enrolled in the Mason Gross School of the Arts. He quit after his first year and moved to New York City to begin working professionally.
Ornstein's first film credit was in Crossing Delancey, where he played minor character "Mickey". Television credits include a recurring role as Detective Bonnaventura on Homicide: Life on the Street, and a two-episode arc on Third Watch, as well as parts in Seinfeld, Law and Order, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
Ornstein's stage acting credits span twenty-five years worth of new plays in New York City, in addition to creating the role of Louis Ironson in the 1991 World Premiere of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco.
All through his life, Michael's main interest privately remained in oil painting, which he practiced daily. He recently opened a painting studio in New York City's Carnegie Hill district, where he resides with his wife, Zoe, and their daughter, Angelena Vasiliki Francesca.
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