Overview
Michael Enright (born 1964) is a British actor who has appeared in American film and television productions, including playing supporting characters in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Old Dogs, as well as in several TV series including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Law & Order: LA, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, and Castle. In 2015, Enright joined the Kurdish People's Protection Units as a volunteer to fight ISIL. As of October 2019, he was living in Belize and trying to obtain permission to reenter the United States.
His life is the subject of the 2021 documentary film Heval, which was the first original feature-length film released by Curiosity Stream.
Early life
Enright has stated that he grew up in a tough neighbourhood in Manchester, and that when he was eighteen, his father, who had been diagnosed with cancer, committed suicide. A year later, Enright travelled to the United States, initially going to New York on a tourist visa. He overstayed and began to work at various informal economy jobs, later moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting gigs. In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, he went to Rwanda and volunteered there at an orphanage for some time, before returning to the United States with another tourist visa and overstaying that one as well.
Acting career
Enright was initially cast as a boxer in a soft drink commercial and then appeared as an IRA member on the television series JAG, in 1997.
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