As an actor, Michael O'Keefe has garnered both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. He's appeared in the films Michael Clayton, Frozen River, The Pledge, Ironweed, The Great Santini and Caddyshack. 

O'Keefe's best known film role is Danny Noonan in the comedy film Caddyshack. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as the oldest son of a Marine aviator in The Great Santini, starring Robert Duvall, also nominated for an Academy Award for the film.

Television audiences will remember him as "Fred" on Roseanne.

O'Keefe appeared on the show from 1993 to 1995. After leaving the series, O'Keefe played the husband in the series Life's Work, which aired after Roseanne in its final season. Other TV appearances also include The West Wing, Law and Order, House M.D., The Closer and Brothers and Sisters.

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Rex Sikes’ Movie Beat chats with author/actor/director Michael O’Keefe

He's appeared on Broadway in Reckless, Side Man, The Fifth of July and Mass Appeal, for which he received a Theater World Award.

As a writer his lyrics were in the Grammy winning song, “Longing in their Hearts”, which was composed and sung by Bonnie Raitt.  He's also written with Irish singer songwriter Paul Brady and numerous other composers. 

His writing has appeared  in BOMB, Lake Affect and Chaparral. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College.

Currently, Michael has authored a book of poetry “Swimming From Under My Father” of which the American Poet and editor Ed Ochester  says “Michael O'Keefe's poems are agreeably cosmopolitan and witty, and his voice is authentic/contemporary. I'm particularly impressed by a sequence of father poems which is both unusual in its compositional strategies and very moving.”