Michael J. Anderson

Michael J. Anderson is a retired American actor from Denver. Before he began performing, he held a technical position at Martin Marietta and helped support NASA's Space Shuttle program. His earliest acting work came in two episodes of Monsters, in 1988 and 1990. He became best known for his role on David Lynch's Twin Peaks as the Man from Another Place, a red-suited figure who spoke in a strange manner that relied on phonetic reversal, and he returned to the same part in the prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. He played Rumpelstiltskin in a 1993 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and later appeared in The X-Files episode Humbug. In Mulholland Drive (2001) he used a prosthetic body to play a man of average height, and from 2003 to 2005 he was part of the cast of Carnivàle. He retired in 2014 after a final role in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.