Michael J. Knowles

Michael John Knowles (born March 18, 1990) is an American conservative political commentator, actor, author, and media host. He has worked for The Daily Wire since 2016. Early life and education Knowles was born in Bedford Hills, New York, and graduated from Fox Lane High School. Descended from Italian, Sicilian and Irish immigrants, he states that his ancestry also includes four English members of the Mayflower voyage: Dr. Samuel Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Eaton, and John Billington. Knowles began training as an actor with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, as part of its Advanced Teen Conservatory. He graduated with a B.A. in history and Italian from Yale University, where he produced the first English rendering of Niccolò Machiavelli's play Andria in 2012. He was raised in the Catholic faith by his family, but fell away during his adolescence; at Yale he experienced a reconversion to the Church, spurred at first by ontological arguments. Career