Paul Michael Bloodgood was born in Redmond, Washington. He spent a great deal of his youth "on the road", as his father, Michael Bloodgood was a rock musician, touring the entire United States and Western Europe until he was 12 years of age. Continuing his travels, Paul Michael performed with the prestigious Columbia Boys Choir in the Czech Republic and Germany, followed by various solo and background studio recordings. One song, performed and co-written by him, climbed all the way to number 3 on Mp3.com. At the age of 9, he began his classical ballet training with Don Synder at the L'Academie de Danse. Paul Michael completed his formal training on full scholarship at the world renowned Pacific Northwest Ballet, and received his first professional company contract at 19, with Ballet Pacifica in Irvine, California. While with the company, he had the opportunity to perform such principal roles as Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, the Cavalier in The Nutcracker and Le Chevalier in Emmy Award Winner Robert Sund's Liasons, among others. In 2002, Paul joined Ballet Austin, where he has had the privilege of touring to Slovenia, Italy, the Joyce Theater in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as performing with Grammy Award Winning artist, Shawn Colvin. As an actor, he started performing in various musical theatre productions as a child, and then started actively pursuing roles in film and television in his late teens. In one of his first jobs in Los Angeles, he was seen alongside Mena Suvari in the music video "Teenage Dirtbag" for the feature film, Loser. Other notable featured appearances include television's Mostly True Stories and feature films such as Forest Whitaker's First Daughter, Lee Tamahori's XXX: State of the Union and Terry Zwigoff's upcoming Art School Confidential. Independent film projects include William D. Hogan's award winning Soldier of God, currently making its way through international film festivals, as well as Steve Wolf's Bending Light, Eric Michael Von Strosnider's Bloodlines: Vengeance and the lead role in Rene Hinojosa's The Flag.
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