Roseanne Son D.J.

Background:

Former child actor Michael Fishman is widely remembered while portraying D.J. Conner, Roseanne's lonely, bizarre, and unpopular son who was frequently taunted by his sisters and peers, on the hit ABC sitcom starring the stand-up comedienne, “Roseanne” (1988-1997), which earned him a Young Artist Award for Best Performance: Young Actor in a TV Comedy Series.

Meanwhile, he has guest-starred in the TV shows "Hey Arnold!," "Seinfeld," and "Walker, Texas Ranger." He also could be seen in the films "Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home" (1997) and "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001).

Since the demise of “Roseanne,” Fishman rarely appeared on the screen and has claimed in a Larry King interview with the cast of “Roseanne” that he wanted to get back into the entertainment industry.

On a more personal note, this 5' 11" cute, brown-haired actor married his present wife, Jennifer Briner, on his 18th birthday in 1999. Together, they have one son and one daughter.

Michael Desmond

Childhood and Family:

On October 22, 1981, Michael Desmond Quatil was born in Long Beach, California, to N. Fishman and D. Fishman. The middle child of the family, Fishman has an older sister named Robyn Danielle Fishman (born in 1978) and a younger brother named Matthew Lewis Fishman (born in 1991). After graduating from Los Alamitos High School, Fishman attended Orange County Of the Performing Arts.

On his 18th birthday in 1999, Fishman married Jennifer Briner, who works in a day-care-center and is 2 years his senior. Together, they have two children, son Aaron Andrew (born on November 19, 1999) and daughter Jamie Elizabeth (born in September 2004).

“I have a wife and two kids, so I've been -- I've been being a dad.” Michael Fishman (when asked what he's been up to since "Roseanne" ended).

Child Star

Career:

Trying acting when his elder sister decided it would be a good way to raise money for college, Michael Fishman started acting when he was five and got his first big break at age seven when he was personally chosen by Roseanne for the role of D.J. Conner, Roseanne's lonely, bizarre, and unpopular son who was frequently taunted by his sisters and peers, on the hit ABC sitcom starring the stand-up comedienne, “Roseanne.”

Fishman would stay in the show until 1997 and his performance has won him a Young Artist Award for Best Performance: Young Actor in a TV Comedy Series in 1995 and TV Land's Innovator Award in 2008. He was also nominated for Young Artist Award's Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Under Nine (1991), Young Artist Award's Best Young Actor Under Nine Years of Age in 1989, and YoungStar's Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy TV Series in 1997. He honored deceased co-star Glenn Quinn, who played the edgy Mark Healy in the show and died in December 2002, by setting up a memorial fund for him.

During his “Roseanne” tenure, Fishman guest-starred in a 1996 episode of Nickelodeon's animated television series "Hey Arnold!" and in a December 1997 episode of NBC sitcom "Seinfeld." He also co-starred with Stephen Furst and Taran Noah Smith in the fast-paced family adventure movie directed by Art Camacho, "Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home" (1997).

Following the demise of “Roseanne,” Fishman rarely appeared on the screen, but has claimed in a Larry King interview with the cast of “Roseanne” that he wanted to get back into the entertainment industry.

He was only seen in a January 1999 episode of CBS western/police drama series starring Chuck Norris, "Walker, Texas Ranger," and had a non-speaking role as a teen in van Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-nominated science fiction film "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001), which was based on the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" and starring Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas and William Hurt.

Awards:

• TV Land: Innovator Award, "Roseanne," 2008

• Young Artist: Best Performance: Young Actor in a TV Comedy Series, "Roseanne," 1995