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Michael O'Hare was born on 6 May, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American stage and television actor. Discover Michael O'Hare's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 31 years old?

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Occupation Actor
Age 31 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 6 May, 1981
Birthday 6 May
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 28 September, 2012
Died Place New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality United Kingdom

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1952

Robert Michael O'Hare Jr. (May 6, 1952 – September 28, 2012) was an American actor who performed on stage and television.

He was best known for playing the lead role of space station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, a role he left after the first season due to serious mental health issues.

Robert Michael O'Hare Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Chicago Heights.

His father, Robert Michael O’Hare Sr., was of Irish descent while his mother, Sally O’Hare (née Crisanti) was of Italian descent.

He attended Chicago's Mendel Catholic Preparatory High School, where he played football, to defy his doctor who told him he would never be in athletics because of his asthma.

He received several awards and scholarship offers based on his football ability and scholastic performance.

Coming from a career military family, he considered joining the US Navy or having a career in professional football but attended Harvard University, where he studied English literature and played on the Harvard Crimson football team.

1970

He co-starred in the biographical TV movie Marciano and an unsold TV pilot Keefer with William Conrad in the late 1970s.

1972

He joined the university's drama groups and was a performer in “The Wrongway Inn”, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ production for 1972.

That same year, he went for an “acting tryout” to the New York area, and was cast as Beef Saunders in Good News! at Goodspeed Musicals.

1973

He was a member of the Harvard Glee Club during its 1973 World Tour.

1974

He left Harvard in 1974 to study at the Juilliard School of Drama.

1980

He later took lessons from Sanford Meisner in the mid-1980s.

O'Hare appeared in a number of theatrical productions on Broadway and in regional theaters, including an acclaimed revival of Shaw's Man and Superman with Philip Bosco; in the role of Col. Jessup in the original stage version of A Few Good Men; as Captain Solyony in Chekhov’s Three Sisters.

In the 1980s, he appeared mainly as guest on a range of television shows, including Trapper John, M.D.; T.J. Hooker; Kate & Allie; The Equalizer; Tales from the Darkside; and Rage of Angels: The Story Continues.

1986

Other notable roles included Alfred in a 1986 stage revival of Little Murders; Jake in A Lie of the Mind and John in Lips Together, Teeth Apart.

He was the first white actor nominated by the African-American theater community of New York for the AUDELCO Award for Best Actor, for his performance as Captain Jaap van Tonder in Michael Picardie's play Shades of Brown, about apartheid in South Africa.

1988

He was the lead character in Michael Lengsfield's CINE-award-winning short film Short Term Bonds in 1988, screened at the 1989 Sundance festival.

1992

In 1992, he was cast in the lead role of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

1994

He appeared in the pilot and throughout the show's first season in 1994.

He left the cast for mental health reasons that were not disclosed at the time, but made guest appearances in the second and third seasons.

2000

Subsequently, he had one guest role on The Cosby Mysteries and appeared twice on Law & Order, the last time in 2000.

He did some voiceover work for commercials and read a radio adaptation of the science fiction novella Think Like a Dinosaur for Seeing Ear Theater.

After 2000, he retired from acting and rarely made public appearances.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski revealed after O'Hare's death that the actor had had severe mental illness.

During the filming of the first season of Babylon 5, O'Hare began having paranoid delusions, and halfway through, his hallucinations worsened.

It became increasingly difficult for O'Hare to continue working, his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic, and he was often at odds with his colleagues.

Straczynski offered to suspend production for several months to accommodate treatment; however, O'Hare feared that such a hiatus would put the series at risk, and he did not want to jeopardize others' jobs.

Straczynski agreed to keep O'Hare's condition secret to protect his career, and O'Hare agreed to complete the first season, but would be written out of the second season so that he could seek treatment.

His departure from the cast was announced without explanation, except that it was mutual and amicable.

His treatments were only partially successful.

He reappeared in a cameo appearance early in season two ("The Coming of Shadows") and returned in season three for a two-part episode ("War Without End") which closed his character's story arc.

At that time, Straczynski promised O'Hare to keep his condition secret "to my grave".

O'Hare told him to instead "keep the secret to my grave", arguing that fans deserved to eventually learn the real reason for his departure, and that his experience could raise awareness and understanding for people with mental illness.

He made no further appearances on Babylon 5, but continued to support the show and appeared at conventions and signing events until his retirement from public appearances in 2000.

2012

On September 28, 2012, Straczynski posted that O'Hare had had a heart attack in New York City five days earlier, and had remained in a coma until his death that day.

Eight months later, Straczynski revealed the circumstances of O'Hare's departure from Babylon 5 at a presentation about the series at the Phoenix Comicon.