
Michael Mahonen
Acting
Biography
Michael Mahonen was born on April 27, 1964, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of the Theatre Arts Program at George Brown College in Toronto. Michael Mahonen is a professional actor who has worked both in the United States and Canada. He is best known for his role as 'Gus Pike' in the internationally acclaimed television series "Road to Avonlea" for which he received three Gemini Award nominations. Mahonen won the Gemini Award (Best Lead Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series) in 1993 for his part as 'Lee Colgan' in "Conspiracy of Silence." He has acted in numerous film and television projects, such as "Star Trek: Voyager," "A Peoples' History of Canada," "Strong Medicine" and more recently a one hour television movie of "MacBeth" and a guest star performance in the CBC series "This is Wonderland." Mahonen has also performed on stage in theatres across Canada. "Sandstorm" is Mahonen's first movie as either writer or director.
Known For

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
Star Trek: Voyager

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Strong Medicine

Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
Viper

Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
This Is Wonderland

In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King, to be near her late mother's side of the family.
Road to Avonlea

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Blindness

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. Determined to stay out of trouble, Ray heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains losing racehorses and whose debts are growing faster than his corn.
All Hat

A car thief breaks into a man's house who is on a low because his career is being taken away. The man locks up the thief in the car, and tortures him.
Captured

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
Giant Steps

For twelve days and nights, He Tian Ying and his wife have been trapped in their home during a massive sandstorm covering a large area of China. His wife is running out of life-sustaining medicine, their young daughter is missing in the storm, electricity and phone communication have been cut off, and their food and water are running out. As He Tianying cares for his dying wife, in this isolation and confinement, his conscience starts to emerge. As a policeman, he has been involved in the vicious persecution of common Chinese citizens who follow the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. In a series of flashbacks, he painfully recalls one particular Falun Gong practitioner whom he had been attempting to force to renounce her beliefs.
Sandstorm
Glen is surprised when a news anchor stops reporting on the Gulf War and begins talking directly to him through the television set.