Michael Biehn

Michael Biehn is an American film actor born in Anniston, Alabama on July 31st, 1956. Having appeared in more than eighty films as well as a few television programs, Biehn is best known for his work in two James Cameron-helmed film franchises. Biehn became a household name to sci-fi fans in 1984 when he played the role of leading man Kyle Reese in James Cameron's The Terminator. Biehn's character was a time traveler from some thirty years in the future who comes back in time to the present to save the life of Sarah Connor, who is destined to one day give birth to John Connor - a man who will lead the human resistance against the evil cyborg Terminators. In 1986, Cameron cast Biehn in another miliary sci-fi role, that of Corporal Dwayne Hicks, a member of the 2nd Battalion 8th Regiment of the United States Colonial Marine Corps in the blockbuster film Aliens.

Biehn's contributions to the sci-fi genre actually begin much earlier than either Terminator or Aliens. In 1977 he played the role of a law enforcement agent known as a Sandman in the dystopic future world of Logan's Run, which was a remake of the 1976 feature film of the same name. He appeared in the pilot episode of the series.

In 1978, Biehn appeared in the Jerry Jameson film A Fire in the Sky, which explored the ramifications of the threat of a meteor crashing into the city of Phoenix, Arizona (the movie bears no relation to the 1993 film Fire in the Sky, which dealt with the subject of alien abduction).

In 1989, Michael Biehn returned to work for James Cameron. He played Lieutenant Hiram Coffey in The Abyss. This would not only be the third time he appeared in a Cameron film, but would also be the third time that he played a soldier in a Cameron vehicle.