Michael’s acting credits include SLC Punk! (Sony Pictures Classics); Hard Rain (Paramount); the Oscar nominated film Leaving Las Vegas (MGM/UA); Newsies (Buena Vista); Chaplin (Tristar); Forever Young (Warner Bros.) and The Invisibles (Sundance selection, opposite Portia DeRossi).
For six years Michael also starred in the television series Party Of Five, which won the 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama, He played the role of "Justin," the childhood best friend and romantic interest, opposite Neve Campbell’s "Julia."
Michael’s acting achievements were further exemplified in the television movie David’s Mother, starring opposite Kirstie Alley. His performance as a young autistic boy won him the 1994 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a field where he was nominated against veteran stars: Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Richard Gere and Sir Ian Mckellan.
Never straying far from the stage, Michael is a founding member of the Los Angeles based theater group, Buffalo Nights (www.buffalonights.org) With the company, Goorjian starred in the West Coast premiere of Dennis McIntyre’s powerful drama, Modigliani, which won him a L.A. Weekly Theater Award nomination for best lead actor. With the ‘Nights’, Michael also received tremendous critical acclaim for playing title roles in both productions of, The Apollo Of Bellac by Jean Giraudoux, and J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. Michael also won a LA Critics Choice and a Garland Backstage West awards for his original choreography for the L.A. production of the musical Reefer Maddness.
Having established himself as an actor of great diversity Michael has since devoted the last 4 years of his life directing his first major independent film, Illusion. The film stars Goorjian alongside Hollywood-legend Kirk Douglas, and deals with the theme of ‘following your heart’… something Goorjian firmly believes in.
