Michael O'Gorman made his acting debut as drug dealer Onofrio Avila in the episode "Red Tape" of the series Miami Vice. His other credits include roles in the movie Ironweed (with Nathan Lane and Margaret Whitton), and the TV series' Monsters, A Man Called Hawk (with Mark Metcalf), and the mini-series A Woman Named Jackie (with Metcalf and Lisa Eichhorn).