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Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels's biography

Lorne Michael Lipowitz is 78 years old screenwriter born at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lorne was born on Friday 17th of November 1944. According to year of birth 1944 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 17th of November means Lorne is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.

He is white canadian. Lorne is citizen of United States of America. Lorne is jewish. His primary profession is to be screenwriter. You can know him also as film producer, television actor, film actor. He is recently known as television producer.

Lorne Michaels's family

Lorne Michaels's ex wife

Rosie Shuster

Lorne Michaels and Rosie Shuster have been together. She is known as screenwriter. His ex wife was born on Monday 19th of June 1950 in Toronto.

Lorne Michaels's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: University of Toronto, Forest Hill Collegiate Institute.

Detailed informations about his schools

  • Attended and graduated from the University of Toronto, where he majored in English (1966).

Lorne Michaels's career

Lorne´s main focus is to be screenwriter. He is famous thanks to Producer of Saturday Night Live.

Is Lorne Michaels gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Lorne Michaels's Awards

  • He was awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario on June 25, 2003.
  • He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6625 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 91, 1999.
  • He was awarded the CC (Companion of the Order of Canada) by the Governor General of Canada on May 1, 2002 for his services to the entertainment industry.
  • Awarded the 2004 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (given by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).

What Lorne Michaels has done for a first time

  • Received a dog-head inkwell as a gift from actress Reese Witherspoon after she emceed the first post 9/11 Saturday Night Live (1975) show.

Lorne Michaels's quotes

  • [on John Travolta] John is the perfect star for the 1970s. He has this strange androgynous quality, this all-pervasive sexuality. Men don't find him terribly threatening. And women, well ...
  • [on Chris Farley, whom he fired from "Saturday Night Live" in 1995] I'd gone through hell with John (Belushi) back in the 1970's, and I had no intention of going through it again with Chris; so I dropped him from the lineup.

Lorne Michaels's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Lorne Michaels looks. We will focus on Lorne´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. Lorne is tall as 5' 7" (170 cm). Body build is average. His eyes are tinted black. His hair is shade of grey.