Michael James Esper was born in Manhattan but grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in the United States. His parents, William and Suzanne, are both theater teachers who teach at their own institute, the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, so Michael He started acting since he was little.
After finishing high school at Brooklyn Heights School in St. Ann’s, he attended Oberlin College to study Writing and Philosophy.
However, shortly after a year Michael dropped out of school to devote himself fully to acting. This is how in 1995 he made his cinematographic debut by leading the cast of the comedy “Dying Is Easy” in 1995.
Esper also concentrated on theatrical performance, and his credits include the works “Assistance”, “Manic Flight Reaction”, “The Lyons”, “The Four of Us”, “American Idiot”, “A Man For All Seasons “,” Crazy Mary “,” subUrbia “or” As You Like It “, presented both on the Broadway circuit and known as off-Broadway.
In 2001, he was seen playing a younger version of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash (played as an adult by Russell Crowe in Ron Howard’s four-time Oscar-winning film “A Brilliant Mind.” Since then, His credits include such titles as “American Gun” (2002), “Loggerheads” (2005), “Bittersweet Place” (2005) – in which he starred alongside Seymour Cassel and Elisabeth Moss-; “Light and the Sufferer” (2007) -which He also had it as the main character- “All Good Things” (2010) and “Watching TV with the Red Chinese” (2012).
Nowadays Wait is filming, along with Gemma Arterton, Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, the thriller “Runner, Runner” whose premiere is scheduled for 2013. He also plays the leading role of the Dr. Kenneth Jordan, in the series of NBC, not yet released, “Do No Harm”.