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Michael Kearns
Person

Michael Kearns

Specialty
Acting
Birth
January 8, 1950 · 76 years
Death
October 6, 2026
Origin
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Technical Alias

Grant Tracy Saxon

Professional Trajectory

Michael Kearns (born January 8, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and activist. He is noted for being one of the first openly gay actors, and after an announcement on Entertainment Tonight in 1991, the first openly HIV-positive actor in Hollywood.

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