Biography

Michael St. John Smith is a Canadian actor and writer based in Toronto, whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly confirmed in major sources. He graduated from Harvard University with honours in English Literature and has been active since 1993, accumulating over 98 film and television credits. He is also a playwright and screenwriting instructor, having authored four stage plays — including the Jessie-nominated Slaying Dragons, The Biz, and The Bridge (co-written with Michele Riml, produced as a CBC podcast) — with his fourth, The Cull, premiering at the Arts Club in Toronto in January 2023. He has also written commissioned screenplays, including an adaptation of Ivan Coyote's novel Bow Grip (Telefilm Canada) and the sci-fi feature Archangel, co-written with William Gibson. His most notable film credits include USR Attorney #2 in I, Robot (2004, with Will Smith), Pentagon General in The Core (2003, with Stellan Skarsgård and Sienna Guillory), FBI Director Brandt in Shooter (2007, with Bryan Cranston and Emily VanCamp), an FBI Agent in Blade: Trinity (2004), Charles Bannister in The Final Cut (2004, with Robin Williams), Margaret's Lawyer in Big Eyes (2014, with Timothy Hutton and Alicia Vikander), and Auction Bidder in Fifty Shades Darker (2017). On television he is best known as Coach Kleats in Riverdale (2018–2020, 3 episodes, CW), Mike Kennedy in The Dead Zone (2002, 7 episodes), with additional credits in Smallville (2002, 2010), Andromeda (2004), The Flash (2015), Yellowjackets (2025), Da Vinci's Inquest (1999–2005), The X-Files (1993, 1996, uncredited), The Outer Limits (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999), Millennium (1996), Psych (2007), The A-Team (2010), Witches of East End (2013), Continuum (2014), Somewhere Between (2017, 6 episodes), The Good Doctor (2017), UnREAL (2018), and Fire Country (2024).