Mike Dopud
Mike Dopud ( born June 10, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian former Canadian professional football player, actor and stuntman.
Life
Dopud grew up the son of a Serbian immigrant family who had left in the early 1960s Yugoslavia. He played college football at Southern Illinois University, and then as a professional with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League as well as in Birmingham Fire in the World League of American Football. His career, however, was ended by a knee injury. Then he changed the sport and played hockey in Columbus Chill in the East Coast Hockey League.
From the mid- 1990s he began to work as a stuntman, first in various television series such as The Outer Limits - The unknown dimension, Stargate - Kommando SG -1 and Viper. Quickly, he also received minor roles in series and feature films. As a stuntman, he was among other things to the action movies I, Robot, Fantastic Four and X -Men: The Last Stand with. He had better roles as Detective Smits in the horror movie White Noise - cries from beyond the grave on the side of Michael Keaton as well as Agent Turner alongside Christian Slater in Alone in the Dark.
Dopud entered into three different series on from the Stargate universe. He made guest appearances in 2005 Stargate - Kommando SG -1 and Stargate Atlantis in 2008. From 2010 to 2011, he had a recurring guest role of Varro in Stargate Universe. He had more recurring guest roles between 2005 and 2009 as Crewman Specialist Gage in Battlestar Galactica as well as from 2006 to 2009 as a Security Guard George in Smallville.
Dopud is married to actress Angela Schneider.
Filmography (selection)
As an actor
As a stuntman
Awards
- 2005: Taurus Award nomination for Walking Tall - On your own