Michael Yebba (born August 5, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. Born in
St. Johns, Michigan, he was raised in
South Boston
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformati ...
, MA, from the age of 6 months.
Later career
Yebba was a Boston, MA firefighter who was fired from the department after failing drug tests. He then became a full time criminal.
While in the aftermath of his arrest, Yebba began penning an autobiographical work entitled "Fallen Hero". Determined to turn his life around and keen at the possibility of telling his story and helping another avoid his situation, Yebba turned his unfinished autobiography into a screenplay named ''The Fallen''.
Since then Yebba has had acting roles in several films and television series', including the
Brian Goodman
Brian Goodman (born June 1, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American film director, television director, writer, and actor.
Career
Brian Goodman auditioned for, and received, a role in the low-budget film titled '' Southie'' with Donnie Wa ...
-directed ''
What Doesn't Kill You What does not kill me makes me stronger (german: link=no, Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the "Maxims and Arrows" section of Friedrich Nietzsche's '' Twilight of the Idols'' (1888).
It is quoted or a ...
'' alongside actors
Ethan Hawke
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and
Mark Ruffalo
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, and ''
The Town'' directed by
Ben Affleck
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Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educationa ...
and starring
John Hamm
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Education
Hamm, a graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University, was a fa ...
,
Jeremy Renner
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and
Blake Lively
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. Yebba continues his writing and has since penned several feature films such as
horror–slasher ''The Hamilton House'', ''Angel's Guardian'' and ''Rush Back''. He also has 2 television projects in development, ''Affair of Honor'' and ''Knocked''.
He appeared in
season 2 of Bosch, as "Mike" a mob enforcer.
Yebba made his Directorial debut with the Award-winning short film ''
Bad Blood'' and the recently completed ''
Ordinary Man (2011) Ordinary Man may refer to:
* ''Ordinary Man'' (Christy Moore album) (1985)
* ''Ordinary Man'' (Kiosk album) (2005)
* ''Ordinary Man'' (Ozzy Osbourne album) (2020)
* "Ordinary Man" (Ozzy Osbourne song) (2020)
See also
* An Ordinary Man (disambiguat ...
'' starring
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Mark in ''Empire Records'', Preston in ''Can't Hardly Wait'', The Bass Player in ''That Thing You Do!'', and as Bobby Ray in ''Sweet Home Ala ...
, Brian Scannell and
Ramiro Torres.
Filmography
* ''
By the Gun
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'' (2014) - Mobster Big Victor
* ''
In Your Eyes
IN, In or in may refer to:
Places
* India (country code IN)
* Indiana, United States (postal code IN)
* Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN)
* In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Businesses and organizations
* Independ ...
'' (2014)
* ''
Surviving Jack
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'' (2014) - police Officer Sam Paul
* ''
Falcon Song'' (2014)
* ''
The Lookalike'' (2014)
* ''
Crisis
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'' (2014-episode 11:Best Laid Plans) - FBI/HRT Commander Sniper team 1(M4 Carbine assault)(uncredited)
* ''
Vault
Vault may refer to:
* Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards
Architecture
* Vault (architecture), an arched form above an enclosed space
* Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored
* Burial vault (enclosure ...
'' (2019) - Mobster
Joseph Barboza
Joseph Barboza Jr. (; September 20, 1932 – February 11, 1976), nicknamed "the Animal", was an American mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family of New England during the 1960s. A prominent enforcer and contract killer in ...
in a Flashback scene
References
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_yebba/
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/01/22/blood_filming_done/
http://www.beantown.name/profiles/blogs/slaine-and-michael-yebba-have
http://thelamovieawards.com/2011_%28I%29_Winners.html
http://thephoenix.com/Blogs/outsidetheframe/archive/2011/08/08/q-amp-a-with-southie-director-actor-michael-yebba-bad-blood-boston-premiere-featuring-slaine-this-wednesday.aspx
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/20110906tracked_down_ethan_embry_jwow_patrick_chung/srvc=home&position=recent
External links
*
1974 births
Living people
American male film actors
Film producers from Massachusetts
American male screenwriters
American male television actors
People from St. Johns, Michigan
Writers from Boston
American male television writers
American television writers
Screenwriters from Massachusetts
Screenwriters from Michigan
Film producers from Michigan
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