
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).

as Charles Carver

as Gordon Cooper

as Greg Turner

as Charles Belmont

as Andrew

as Andrew

as Auction Bidder

as Michael Harper

as Mr. Howard

as Sheriff Urban Blackwell

as Neil Collins

as William

as Johnson

as Harold Wainright

as Margaret's Lawyer

as Barton Keyes

as Fred Cook

as Mayor Thomas

as Senator Booth

as Cemetary Chaplain

as Dr. Spenser

as Sheriff Weller

as FBI Director Brandt

as Nordin Haber

as Legal Analyst

as Office Lafuentes

as Jared McLeod

as John Slayter

as FBI Agent

as Charles Bannister

as USR Attorney #2

as Sheriff Ben

as Pentagon General

as Governor Evans

as Inspector Linnehan

as Mr. Marshall

as Stan

as Senator Cayton

as Bret Owings

as Bailey

as John

as Agent Seals

as Sportsman #2