Editing Michael Ironside (section)

{{Short description|Canadian actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Michael Ironside
| image         = Michael Ironside WOH-06 (cropped).jpg
| alt           = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software -->
| caption       = Ironside in 2009
| birth_name    = Frederick Reginald Ironside
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1950|2|12}}
| birth_place   = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| alma_mater    = [[Ontario College of Art]]
| occupation    = Actor
| years_active  = 1977–present
| spouse        = {{marriage|Karen Dinwiddie<br />|1986}}
| children      = 2 
}}
'''Frederick Reginald Ironside''' (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as '''Michael Ironside''', is a Canadian actor. A prominent [[character actor]] with over 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters. He is best known for his roles in [[Action film|action]] and [[Science fiction films|science fiction]] films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 [[David Cronenberg]] film ''[[Scanners]]''. 

Ironside's other notable roles include Overdog in ''[[Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone]]'' (1983), "Jester" in ''[[Top Gun]]'' (1986), Richter in ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]'' (1990), and Rasczak in ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' (1997). His signature deep voice has been lent to various [[Video game|video games]] and [[Animation|animated]] television shows, most notably as [[Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)|Sam Fisher]] in the ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell]]'' franchise and [[Darkseid]] in the [[DC Animated Universe]]. 

He is a four-time [[Gemini Awards|Gemini Award]], a [[Genie Awards|Genie Award]], and a [[Canadian Film Awards|Canadian Film Award]] nominee.