Michael Shapiro (actor)

Michael Shapiro is an American actor, and theatre director, best known for voicing the "Half-Life" characters G-Man and Barney Calhoun.
Early life.
In 1987, Shapiro helped launch the Annex Theater and performed in many of their productions. For a time he lived in Seattle until moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2000. He is of Jewish descent.
Career.
Michael Shapiro is most famous for voicing Barney Calhoun and the G-Man in all of the characters' appearances in the "Half-Life series". Other video games in which he is credited as “Mike Shapiro” are "Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch", ', ' and "Torin's Passage". He has also voiced many radio and TV commercials. Michael is a director of television shows and theater productions, with some of his shows being shown on "Strike.TV". In 2007, his TV pilot "Family Values", starring Rob Riggle, was screened at the New York Television Festival.