Michael Shapiro is an American actor and theater director best known for voicing the G-Man and Barney Calhoun in the Half-Life series and being the only voice actor who worked in all Half-Life games.

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Michael Shapiro
Shapiro at the 2007 New York Television Festival
Nationality	American
Other names	Mike Shapiro
Occupation(s)	Actor, theatre director
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Peggy Stafford
Children	2

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In 1987, Shapiro helped launch the Annex Theater and performed in many of their productions. For a time he lived in Seattle until moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2000.

Michael Shapiro is most famous for voicing Barney Calhoun and the G-Man in all of the characters' appearances in the Half-Life series. Other video games in which he is credited as "Mike Shapiro" are Blood II: The Chosen, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Torin's Passage. He has also voiced many radio and TV commercials. Shapiro is a director of television shows and theater productions, with some of his shows being shown on Strike.TV. In 2007, his TV pilot Family Values, starring Rob Riggle, was screened at the New York Television Festival.