Michael Kopsa, a Canadian actor whose roles on hit and cult-favorite like The X-Files, Highlander, Smallville and Stargate SG-1 made him an instantly recognizable TV presence, died Sunday, Oct. 23, of problems from a mind tumor. He was 66.
His demise was introduced on Twitter by his ex-wife, actor Lucia Frangione.
“The great Michael Kopsa, my dear friend and the father of my child, Nora, passed away Oct. 23, 2022, of a brain tumor,” she wrote yesterday. “He was an incredible stage and screen actor, voice actor, carpenter, musician and painter. Most importantly, he was a loving and richly present father.”
A Toronto native, Kopsa studied appearing at New York’s Circle within the Square Theater School for 4 years within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. He subsequently returned to Canada to attend the University of Toronto. Throughout his profession he would carry out in sequence filmed or made in Toronto or Vancouver.
Among his earliest credit had been voiceover work for such animated sequence as Mobile Suit Gundam and small in-person roles on the 1988 Mr. T sequence T and T.
By the mid-’90s he had booked roles one The Commish, Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, Highlander, and The X-Files. Subsequent credit embrace roles on Poltergeist: The Legacy, The Outer Limits, Beggars and Choosers, and, within the 2000s, Action Man and Galaxy Angel.
He recurred in two separate roles on Stargate SG-1, portraying a TV information anchor and General Kerrigan.
He voiced a pair roles on (*66*) Ball Z, and, in 2001’s X-Men: Evolution, he voiced the character of Dr. Hank McCoy. In 2006 and 2007, he performed Ray Ellis on Falcon Beach, and he performed Captain Windmark in 2012’s Fringe, amongst many, many different roles.
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