Michael Mando Biography

QUICK FACTS
Activity Actor
Canadian Nationality
Birth July 13, 1981 (Quebec)

BIOGRAPHY
Michael Mando enrolled in many majors, including international relations, at the University of Montreal before discovering the performing arts at Dawson College’s The Dome Theater Program in 2004. Despite having no prior training, Michael went on to play the lead male in five productions of the program and graduated with excellence in 2007. After several series and films, Mando gained much recognition in 2012 when he appeared in the video game Far Cry 3, where he voiced and inspired one of the main villains: Vaas Montenegro . From 2013 to 2014 he played the role of Victor “Vic” Schmidt in the science fiction series Orphan Black . He recently appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), in the post-credits scene as Mac Gargan, better known as the villain Scorpion. Since 2015 he has played Nacho Varga on AMC’s Better Call Saul .