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Born | Michael Quentin Schmidt |
Years active | 2001 - |
Website | http://mqschmidt.com |
Michael Quentin Schmidt (born April 20, 1953) is an American actor and fine arts model.
Career
In in early 2000 an art director from Sony contacted Artcenter searching for a specific physical type to be the basis for a character in an upcoming film and Schmidt was brought in to work on 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. He was converted by the CGI artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks Studios into the creature of The Mountain Troll.
He has over 90 IMDB credits. His first featured role was in Naked Shadows, filmed in 2003 and released in 2006. He had a role in The Three Trials (2006).
In June 2007, he appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live as the model in a segment where Aunt Chippy and Uncle Frank learned to draw nude models. In 2003, he began an ongoing series of live appearances as a model for Let's Paint TV, an interactive call-in television show. Schmidt poses (barely) costumed as the Devil, or a biblical Adam, or as Cupid, or as Nero, or as Bacchus.
Schmidt provides the body for character Joy Peters for Tom Goes to the Mayor and has been in several episodes of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. Schmidt reprised the "Raise My Roof" dance performance, this time totally uncensored, that he had originally shared on the April 8, 2007 "Hamburger" episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. In November 2007, he performed this dance at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of the TEASGJ during the The Comedy Festival. and in May 2008 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles as part of T&E's Awesome Tour 2008.
References
- ^ IMDB Filmography for Michael Q. Schmidt
- Cranium Candy Entertainment's Naked Shadows
- Pulp Movies: Review of The Three Trials
- Pressbox.co.uk: Let's Paint TV celebrates 6th anniversary