Fan favorite Michael Cyril Creighton brings excitement and fun to Only Murders in the Building

HOLLYWOOD – If you watch Only Murders in The Building, alongside Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, there's another name that regularly appears in the opening credits: Michael Cyril Creighton – and he's become a fan favorite!

Creighton plays Howard Morris, another resident of The Arconia in Only Murders In The Building. He has now been in all four seasons.

“Yeah, I feel really lucky about that. “I’m really grateful that the writers seem to understand what I’m good at, but still challenge me with every episode,” said Creighton. “I’m kind of this 20-year-old overnight success. Every time I get a job I ask myself: Where did it come from?”

Creighton says in this show you know you're going to be playing with people who are doing their best. And as it turns out, someone in the cast let him know he was getting an “A,” too.

“Steve Martin once sent me a very nice email. It just said, 'You're a beautiful comedian.' And I said to my mother, 'Steve Martin just wrote me a very nice email and sent me a very nice compliment.' And my mother said, 'Are you lying?'” Creighton laughed.

For this veteran actor, being a regular in the series is a big deal. And then there's this – he made it into the opening of the show.

“It was better than, ‘You’re going to be a regular on the show. You're going to be the cartoon in the opening credits,' it was like a dream come true,” Creighton said.

Only Murders In The Building is now streaming on Hulu.

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