MICHAEL SCOFIELD PROFILE

MICHAEL SCOFIELD

Name: Michael Scofield
Alias: Fish, Snowflake, Pretty, Wayne Merrick (S2E09), Michael Crane (S2E15), Superstar, Waterboy
Portrayed by: Wentworth Miller
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Eyes color: grey
Natural hair color: brown
Back number: 94941
Crime: Attempted armed robbery of bank/ Weapon discharge First degree murder
Sentence: 5 years/Trial pending
Occupation: Former structural engineer
Family:
Aldo Burrows (father) (deceased)
Christina Rose Scofield (mother) (deceased)
Lincoln Burrows (brother)
LJ Burrows (nephew)Relationships:
Nika Volek (estranged wife)
Sara Tancredi (love interest/girlfriend)(deceased)
Veronica Donovan (family friend)(deceased)

Education: Loyola University, Chicago, Chicago, IL M.S. in Civil Engineering
* Earned magna cum laude distinction for graduating with a grade point average in the top five percent of his class (3.89).
* Studied under professional engineers Eduardo Rivera, Megan Costa and Ravi Rajendra.

Honors and Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa Elected to nation's oldest academic fraternity in first year of eligibility.
* Dean's List
* Percival Stern Award
* Chicago Youth Outreach Mentor, Chicago, IL
* Food For Kids, Chicago, IL

Appearance: Seasons 1, 2, 3Biography:
After his father deserted the family, Michael Scofield took up his mother's maiden name in order to start a new life because his mother told him that his father, Aldo Burrows was addicted to drugs.After their mother's death from liver cancer, Lincoln became his guardian and took care of him. Having lost both their parents, Lincoln descended into a life of crime while preventing Michael from suffering the same fate. Following the death of his mother, he and Lincoln moved in with the family of Lincoln's friend, Veronica Donovan. That situation was short-lived. Afterwards, Michael and Lincoln traveled in and out of different foster home situations. Though they were usually kept together, there were periods time when circumstances required them to be placed separately.Once such instance occurred when Lincoln did a six-month stretch in juvenile hall on an assault charge when he was seventeen and Michael was eleven. Michael was placed with a foster father in the Pershing section of Chicago. Though several reports had been filed suggesting the man was abusive and routinely locked his charges in a small storage shed, no formal inquiry had been made prior to Michael's placement. Six months into Michael's stay, his foster father was found dead in his home, a victim of a violent attack. For better or worse, young Michael Scofield repressed all memory of what had occurred and was not able to help police in their investigation. To this day, the murder investigation remains unsolved. In high school, Michael took an elective survey class in Arts and Crafts, which had a large section devoted to the Japanese art of origami. He was immediately drawn to the precision and patience that the practice required. He was particularly fond of constructing cranes and began to do so out of any material he could find. Michael's practice of making paper cranes carried over into his adulthood.

Michael was a gifted student, and finished his secondary education at Morton East High School in Cicero, Illinois with an impeccable record. He graduated magna cum laude with Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Loyola University in Chicago. He went on to become a successful structural engineer at the firm of Middleton, Maxwell and Schaum in downtown Chicago
The sixteenth episode of the series, "Brother's Keeper", reveals Michael and Lincoln's relationship three years before Lincoln was imprisoned at Fox River and the reason why Michael would go to such extreme lengths to save his brother from his death sentence. Michael's discovery of his misperception of his brother and his brother's sacrifice for him prompts him to change and help Lincoln.