Michael Raynor (actor)
| Michael Raynor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Roy Stearn Queens, New York |
| Occupation | Actor, director, writer |
| Website | www |
Michael Raynor, is an American actor, director and writer. His best known roles are as Joseph Morgan in ER (TV series), Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden in From the Earth to the Moon, Mick in the movie A Brother's Kiss and Frank in the movie Federal Hill.
Michael Raynor was born Michael Roy Stearn in Queens, New York, raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan bordering Spanish Harlem. At age 3, he attended the prestigious and progressive interracial kindergarten Kindergarten Center in East Harlem.
This caught the attention of a young NY Times reporter, Joseph Lelyveld and wrote an article about interracial inner city schools. Lelyveld went on to become the Editor-In-Chief the NY Times with some calling him "the most powerful man in the press."
Later, Raynor's mother moved him to PS 6 which was considered the best elementary school in the city. At this school he was reinstated into the IGC program for gifted children. He went on to win a scholarship to Friends Seminary, an esteemed Quaker private school, where he met and became best friends with Nick Chinlund, co-star in the movie, A Brother's Kiss.
Spending 2 years at Friends Seminary, he moved on to Stuyvesant High School in New York City, being accepted after taking a test similar to the SAT. As a junior, his girlfriend and first love was Marion Grodin, daughter of actor, Charles Grodin. His first experience with creative writing and storytelling was taught by his English teacher (at Stuyvesant HS) Pulitzer Prize winner, Frank McCourt who wrote Angela's Ashes. At Stuyvent he was captain of the basketball team playing the position of point guard. He was also a member of Lou d'Almeida's original Gauchos Basketball team in the world-famous Rucker Tournament in Harlem at Rucker Park.
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