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Michael Shapiro
Shapiro at the 2007 New York Television Festival
Nationality American
Other namesMike Shapiro
Occupation(s)Actor, theatre director
Years active1991–present
SpousePeggy Stafford
Children2
From left to right: Ashley Reyes, Peter Brensinger, Rob Riggle, Lori Hammel and Michael Shapiro (the voice of G-Man) at the New York Television Festival

Michael Shapiro is an American actor and theater director best known for voicing the G-Man and Barney Calhoun in the Half-Life series and being the only voice actor who worked in all Half-Life games.

Early life

In 1987, Shapiro helped launch the Annex Theater and performed in many of their productions. For a time he lived in Seattle until moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2000.

Career

Michael Shapiro is most famous for voicing Barney Calhoun and the G-Man in all of the characters' appearances in the Half-Life series. Other video games in which he is credited as "Mike Shapiro" are Blood II: The Chosen, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Torin's Passage. He has also voiced many radio and TV commercials. Shapiro is a director of television shows and theater productions, with some of his shows being shown on Strike.TV. In 2007, his TV pilot Family Values, starring Rob Riggle, was screened at the New York Television Festival.

Filmography

Video games

Year Title Role
1994 Super Punch-Out!! Additional Voices
1995 Torin's Passage Torin, Boogle
3D Movie Maker McZee
1997 Betrayal in Antara Paolo, Gar Warren, Naku
Big Thinkers! Kindergarten Ben [1]
Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Johnny Gecko
1998 Police Quest: SWAT 2 Sergeant Markossian, Suspect, Gangster, Vehicle Driver
Get Medieval Elf
Half-Life G-Man, HECU Soldiers, Security Guards, Scientists
Blood II: The Chosen Ishmael
1999 SiN: Wages of Sin Gianni Manero
Starsiege Squadmate #8
Half-Life: Opposing Force Otis, G-Man, Security Guards, Male Black Ops
Gorky 17
2000 Sanity: Aiken's Artifact Tiger Cage Guy
2001 Half-Life: Blue Shift Otis, Miller, Security Guards
Half-Life: Decay Scientists, Security Guards,
2004 Half-Life 2 G-Man, Barney Calhoun
2005 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories Richard Goblin, Flashback FM Imaging Voice, Commercial Voice
2006 Half-Life 2: Episode One G-Man, Barney Calhoun
2007 Half-Life 2: Episode Two G-Man
2008 Order Up! Tommy Cheesehead, Salty Sam, Male Chef
2013 Dota 2 Oracle
Grand Theft Auto V The Local Population
2020 Half-Life: Alyx G-Man [2]
2022 Horizon Forbidden West Javad the Willing, Parallo

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Interpol Investigates Narrator 12 episodes
Shorties Watchin' Shorties Additional Voices 13 episodes

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1991 Listen Carefully Christa's deaf son
1995 Georgia Brian
1999 The Engagement Party Matthew
Lovers Lane Deputy David Schwick
2007 Day Zero News Announcer (voice)
2015 3rd Street Blackout Josh
2019 The Pulse Travis Short film

References

  1. ^ "Mike Shapiro (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 3 February 2022. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)
  2. ^ Macgregor, Jody (2019-11-21). "Alyx Vance will be voiced by a new actor in Half-Life: Alyx". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2019-11-21.

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