Tony Award winner Michael Aronov recently played the lead in The Betrayers, which premiered at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. Other film highlights include The Drop, opposite Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini, and going toe-to-toe with Sir Ben Kingsley in Operation Finale. In television, the actor spent three seasons on the award-winning series The Americans, as well as The Blacklist. Aronov played lead undercover cop Jackie Dillon in the HBO series Jett and Rahm Emanuel in The First Lady, opposite Viola Davis, and starred as Dr. Nima Rousseau in the final season of Snowpiercer. For his theatre work, Michael has won the Tony Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Obie Award, and the Elliot Norton Award, with Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations. He originated lead roles in such plays as the Tony Award-winning Oslo on Broadway, First Born, Unusual Acts of Devotion, and Mauritius. Other theatre highlights include the Tony-nominated revival of Golden Boy on Broadway, the American premiere of Blood and Gifts at Lincoln Center, New York productions of his solo shows Seaguts and Manigma, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jean in Miss Julie at the Cherry Lane.
(Michael Aronov, photo courtesy of The Press Room)