Michael Kostroff Bio, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Movies, and TV Shows

Michael Kostroff Biography

Michael Kostroff is an American actor well known for his roles in the HBO series The Wire and in the fifth season of the show and served as a guest star in all four previous seasons.

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How old is Michael Kostroff? – Age

He is 62 years old as of 22 May 2023. He was born in 1961 in New York, New York, United States.

Michael Kostroff Family – Education

Nina Kostroff Noble, a television producer and executive producer of The Wire, is Kostroff’s brother. He grew up going to the theater and then attended the High School of Performing Arts.

Michael Kostroff Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

Michael Kostroff The Plot Against America

He appeared as Shepsie Tirchwell, Herman’s friend, who manages a newsreel theater and discusses politics with Herman in the American alternate history drama television miniseries The Plot Against America.The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history as seen through the perspective of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they witness the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist who becomes president and leads the country into fascism.”

Michael Kostroff The Wizard of Lies

He appeared as Peter Madoff in the 2017 American television biopic film The Wizard of Lies. In the 1960s, Bernard Madoff, a wealthy financier, broker, financial counselor, and philanthropist, established a Wall Street investment fund. The greatest Ponzi scam in history was exposed in 2008, resulting in multibillion-dollar losses and Madoff’s incarceration.Madoff told FBI agents that he had been running a Ponzi scam since the 1970s.

He refused to give investigators his Depository Trust Company (DTC) account information in 2005, alleging the entire operation was a scam. Madoff’s sons turned him in after the 2008 Great Recession, and he and his wife attempted suicide. Mark Madoff committed suicide after clawback suits were brought against him and his sons. Ruth, Madoff’s wife, blamed him for Mark’s death and refused to accept responsibility for destroying the lives of his victims.

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Michael Kostroff  Veronica Mars

He appeared as Samuel Nelson Pope in The Quick and the Wed, the fifteenth episode of the second season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars, and the thirty-seventh episode overall.

Bernard Madoff, a Wall Street entrepreneur, was caught in 2008 after his company conducted the world’s largest Ponzi scam. His kids, Mark and Andrew, as well as his wife Ruth, were instructed to report Madoff. Madoff tells FBI agents that he has been running a Ponzi scam since the 1970s. Clients began withdrawing funds from Madoff’s firm during the 2008 Great Recession, leading Madoff’s sons to turn him in. Clawback lawsuits are filed against Madoff’s sons, and Mark kills himself. Andrew succumbs to cancer. Ruth, Madoff’s wife, holds Madoff responsible for Mark’s death. Keith, Sheriff Lamb, Veronica, Logan, and Kendall are among the characters in the story.

Michael Kostroff Movies

♦ 1989 – Return from the River Kwai
♦ 1997 – Liar Liar
♦ 1998 – Blunt
♦ 2008 – Eagle Eye
♦ 2011 – Hit List
♦ 2014 – Best Man in the Dark
♦ 2016 – Norman
♦ 2017 – Molly’s Game
♦ 2018 – Most Likely to Murder

Michael Kostroff TV Shows

♦ 2020 – The Plot Against America
♦ 2020 – The George Lucas Talk Show
♦ 2018 – Instinct
♦ 2018 – NCIS: Los Angeles
♦ 2018 – Indoor Boys
♦ 2018–2021 – Billions
♦ 2017 – The Wizard of Lies
♦ 2017–2018 – The Deuce
♦ 2016 – Bosch
♦ 2016 – Vinyl
♦ 2016 – Luke Cage
♦ 2016 – Madam Secretary
♦ 2015 – The Blacklist
♦ 2015 – Deadbeat
♦ 2015 – Elementary
♦ 2014 – The Actress
♦ 2014 – Black Box
♦ 2014 – F to 7th
♦ 2014 – Louie