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Michael Coleman is the Canadian actor who portrays Happy on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Michael Robert Coleman was born on December 6, 1973 in Burnaby, British Columbia.[1] He has three brothers.[2] Michael married Michelle Louise Coleman on October 4, 2003[1] and they have one daughter, Belle.[3]
During high school, he began doing stand up comedy. Due to being underage, Michael often snuck into and out of nightclubs through the back door. He worked with various comedic legends such as Robin Williams. After performing a night show, Michael was approached by actor Michael Sunczyk and introduced to the world of television and film acting.[2][4]
Some of Michael's on camera credits include Supernatural, Eureka, Psych, Blood Ties, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and numerous movies of the week and feature films. He has voiced over a hundred commercial spots for radio and television and voiced numerous characters in dozens of animated series including; X-Men: Evolution, Hello Kitty, Inuyasha, Dragonball Z, Gundam Seed: Destiny, Hamtaro, Hellsing, Transformers, Power Puff Girls, and Megaman.[1]
He was the artistic director of the Vancouver Acting School and also serves as an acting coach instructor alongside Once Upon a Time colleagues Geoff Gustafson and Catherine Lough Haggquist.[5] Aside from acting, Michael is also a screenwriter.[2]
In February 2018, Coleman stepped down from his position as artistic director and chief academic officer of SchoolCreative: Institute for the Arts, the arts institute that he co-owned after sexual harassment allegations surfaced. The school and its affiliated agency, GO Studios, have confirmed that Coleman no longer has any relationship with them. After news of the allegations emerged, 14 instructors at the school resigned. Some of those instructors said that they planned to return now that Coleman has resigned. The latter denied the allegations, and said that he stepped down because of shareholder dispute.[6] Following these allegations, Coleman revealed that he was not asked to return for the seventh and final season of Once Upon a Time, thus making his firing from the series.[7]
Trivia
- Favorite fairytale is The Little Mermaid.[3]
- Avid Angry Birds gamer on the Once Upon a Time set when not filming.[3]
- Fan of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team.[8]
- Regularly attends anime conventions to get in touch with fans of his voice acting credits.[4]
- Loves The Beatles.[4]
- All-time favorite book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.[2]
- Was one of the four people who wrote lyrics for a parody version of Adele's Rolling in the Deep for Beverley Elliott's performance of the song at Vancouver Union of British Columbia Performers Awards.[9]
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season One | ||||||||||
| "Pilot": | "The Thing You Love Most": | "Snow Falls": | "The Price of Gold": | "That Still Small Voice": | "The Shepherd": | "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter": | "Desperate Souls": | "True North": | "7:15 A.M.": | "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": |
| Appears | Archive | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive | Appears | Absent |
| "Skin Deep": | "What Happened to Frederick": | "Dreamy": | "Red-Handed": | "Heart of Darkness": | "Hat Trick": | "The Stable Boy": | "The Return": | "The Stranger": | "An Apple Red as Blood": | "A Land Without Magic": |
| Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Archive |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
| "Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
| Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears |
| "In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
| Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Three | ||||||||||
| "The Heart of the Truest Believer": | "Lost Girl": | "Quite a Common Fairy": | "Nasty Habits": | "Good Form": | "Ariel": | "Dark Hollow": | "Think Lovely Thoughts": | "Save Henry": | "The New Neverland": | "Going Home": |
| Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears |
| "New York City Serenade": | "Witch Hunt": | "The Tower": | "Quiet Minds": | "It's Not Easy Being Green": | "The Jolly Roger": | "Bleeding Through": | "A Curious Thing": | "Kansas": | "Snow Drifts": | "There's No Place Like Home": |
| Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Four | ||||||||||
| "A Tale of Two Sisters": |
"White Out": |
"Rocky Road": |
"The Apprentice": |
"Breaking Glass": |
"Family Business": | "The Snow Queen": |
"Smash the Mirror": |
"Fall": | "Shattered Sight": |
"Heroes and Villains": |
| Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent |
| "Darkness on the Edge of Town": |
"Unforgiven": | "Enter the Dragon": | "Poor Unfortunate Soul": |
"Best Laid Plans": | "Heart of Gold": | "Sympathy for the De Vil": |
"Lily": | "Mother": | "Operation Mongoose Part 1": |
"Operation Mongoose Part 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
| "The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | |
| "Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
| Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Six | ||||||||||
| "The Savior": | "A Bitter Draught": | "The Other Shoe": | "Strange Case": | "Street Rats": | "Dark Waters": | "Heartless": | "I'll Be Your Mirror": | "Changelings": | "Wish You Were Here": | "Tougher Than the Rest": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Murder Most Foul": | "Ill-Boding Patterns": | "Page 23": | "A Wondrous Place": | "Mother's Little Helper": | "Awake": | "Where Bluebirds Fly": | "The Black Fairy": | "The Song in Your Heart": | "The Final Battle Part 1": | "The Final Battle Part 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive | Absent | Absent | Appears | Archive | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
| "Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive |
| Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
| "Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
| Archive | Archive | Archive | Archive | Archive | ||||||
| "Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
| Archive | Archive | Archive | Archive | |||||||
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
External links
Official Website of Michael Coleman- Michael Coleman on Internet Movie Database
- @fiveandagame (Michael Coleman) on Facebook
- @1MichaelColeman (Michael Coleman) on X, formerly Twitter
- @michaelcolemanofficial (Michael Coleman) on Instagram
