Michael John Anderson

Michael John Anderson is the actor who portrayed Rumpelstiltskin in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.

He has made his career playing short-statured characters with other guest appearances in The X-Files and . In that series he played "" in the famous backwards-talking dream sequences. He also appeared in the series' prequel movie . Anderson is perhaps best known as Samson in  (2003-2005).

In 1997 he starred in Warriors of Virtue with Tom Towles and Lee Arenberg. A year later, he appeared with John Savage in Club Vampire.

In 2001, Anderson worked with again, appearing in the motion picture Mulholland Dr., in which Geno Silva also starred.