Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, voice actor, director, and television producer, who is best known for his television roles as Tony Scali in the ABC police drama series The Commish from 1991 to 1996, Vic Mackey in the FX crime drama series The Shield from 2002 to 2008, and as Vincent Savino in the CBS period drama series Vegas from 2012 to 2013. He also played Captain Nathaniel Barnes in the Fox series Gotham. He is also best known for his film role as Ben Grimm/The Thing in the 2005 superhero film Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
For Disney, he voiced Akio Ogino in the 2002 Disney/Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away and Zeus in the 2017 DuckTales reboot. He also played a TV director in Nixon.