Biography
I like what American actor Denzel Washington has to say about film… ”A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don’t like it, or one might say it’s the best muffin ever made. But another might say, it’s an awful muffin. It’s hard for me to say, It’s for me to make the muffin.”
Born 22nd of September 1980, in Accra Ghana to a Lebanese Father Michael Michel-Erawoc, and Ghanaian Mother Paulina Olympio, Majid has ten other siblings, four sisters and six brothers (Aro, Isaac [RIP] Reggie, Roberta, Shawki, Sputnic, Juliette, Michael, Georgette, and Isabella). Majid’s love for acting started at a tender age. He got his first break in Secondary School. As part of the schools drama club, Majid won the Best Actor for his performance in the event on “Emancipation Day.” After secondary school, he joined the modelling agency “Super Model Agency” while furthering his studies at the Academy of Screen Arts. After several auditions he got casted by producer Ivan Quashigah as Shaker for a program dubbed for Ghana radio, Things We Do for Love which later turned into a prime time T.V. series. In 2004, Director Jayke Aernan casted Majid in his first film Divine Love.
Majid has since then compiled a filmography of over forty movies. The African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has nominated him four times for the Best Actor category. He has won the 2010 Zafaa Awards for Best Actor in the movie Silent Scandals and the 2010 Actor of the Year Award in a leading role The Beast in Ghana. He won best actor at the 2011 NAFCA AWARDS for film SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA. Other film nominations include The Agony of Christ, Sin of The Soul, Trinity and Pool Party. Majid is a partner with the production company Ad-visors Ghana Limited. They produce documentaries and are involved in several charitable projects, some of which include his personal passion, building clean water wells in parts of Ghana and Africa. For further philanthrophy passions of Majid Michel, please visit his foundation link (Majiwoc Foundation). Majid is married to Virna; they have two daughters Kiera and Zara.
Two Million Dollar questions to Manager Reggie Erawoc about Majid!
Q. What Makes MAJID Interesting?
“It’s hard to label him, you just can’t put Majid’s acting in a box, he has so much range and has acted in numerous African films to have proven over time that he can assume any role, transcend any culture, you can cast Majid as an African, Caucasian, Spanish, Italian, Indian, Middle Eastern or an Asian… he has an international appeal that’s definitely leading him to Hollywood”
Q. So When Do We Expect A Transition to Hollywood?
The question is, should Majid continue to play his role as an actor in raising the bar in the African Film Industry, now called Afrowood, so that the industry eventually becomes a world force to reckon with or should he actually pursue transiting into Hollywood.
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