Michael was born in Germany and raised bilingual. Although he has German and British citizenship he lived most of his life in New York. His credits include the Venice film festival winner "Childhood of a leader", Amazons "Jack Ryan" and Marvels "Secret invasion". Although also working in the German film market his focus stayed on international films such as "The Beekeeper" where he stars opposite Jason Statham in one of the lead roles which went on to be Nr 1 in theaters world wide. Next up he can be seen opposite Adrien Brody in "The Brutalist" directed by Brady Corbet. For Guy Ritchie's "Fountain of youth" he reunited with Jack Ryan's John Krasinksi und Nathalie Portman. Michael splits his time between London and Berlin.