| Name |
Michael Pare |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
9-October-1958 |
| Place of Birth |
Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Pare was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan, a homemaker, and Francis Pare, who owned print shops. He has six sisters and three brothers. Pares father was of French-Canadian ancestry and his mother of Irish ancestry.[citation needed] His father died from leukemia when Pare was five, leaving his mother to raise the large family of children. Pare was working as a chef in New York when he met an agent, Yvette Bikoff, who convinced him to try acting.
His first starring role was as Tony Villicana on the television series The Greatest American Hero. His best-known film roles were as Eddie Wilson in Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) and its sequel Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989), as well as Streets of Fire (1984) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984). Other films included Moon 44 (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), Bad Moon (1996), Hope Floats (1998), and The Virgin Suicides (1999).
On television, Pare starred with Michael Beck in the CBS police drama Houston Knights in 1987–88, as well as the short-lived 2001 science fiction television series Starhunter.
