Hair Stylist...Screenwriter...Actor-- Houston native Lynn Michaels has just about done it all or seen it all. And he brings those two decades of life experience to the Lynn Michaels Salon River Oaks.

Lynn's Hollywood acting career included credits on "T.J Hooker," "Tales of the Gold Monkey," "Knight Rider," "Love Boat," "Chips," "Falcon Crest," etc., etc, etc. ... as well as ESPN's advertising campaign for the famous Hagler-Leonard fights. Lynn is also interested in indie (independent) films and writes screenplays. Lynn's most recent writing credit for another independent film is "Hot Scramble," starring Paul Ben-Victor (star of HBO's "The Wire"). Luke Perry, Natasha Henstridge and Eli Wallach have been signed.

However, it was between those early acting gigs that Lynn discovered hair. He had sustained an auto injury and, while he was recovering, a cousin praised the hair business and suggested that he consider it as a possible career. Taking her advice, Lynn went to beauty school in Louisiana, studying with the legendary teacher Sam Brocato. After his recovery, Lynn, a Screen Actors Guild member, returned to his first love, acting, while continuing his new found passion -- hairdressing.

Utilizing contacts made in the acting field, and forging new ones, Lynn expanded his talent with hair into fashion shoots and television commercials.

On the West Coast, he did hair styling photo sessions for Guess! Jeans, Street Scene, Jimmy Z, Oak Tree and Dunner Suits ads while maintaining an exhaustive schedule doing live platform shows for Sebastian International, Brocato, Rusk and Farouk Systems. His hair work has been editorialized in several magazines, including L'Uomo, Sophisticates Celebrity Hairstyle Guide and Celebrity Shortcuts 101. He was also a contributing fashion editor for Ambiance magazine.

Even while living a nomadic lifestyle -- migrating between Los Angeles, New Orleans and Houston -- sporting tattoos (long before it was fashionable), hanging with bikers and babes -- hair has been the one constant in Lynn's multifaceted life.

Eventually though, he returned to the Houston area -- running his own salons in the Champions area for more than seven years. After awhile, however, he grew tired of the monotony of suburban styling.

His solution to passe hair? A new salon, of course. But this time, in a trendier location, where he could explore the new frontiers of style.

Thus, Lynn Michaels Salon River Oaks was born in November '01.

This summer, Lynn has added film producer to his long line of credits and is producing a trilogy of his own original work, shot in high definition cutting edge camera technology -- slated for the Sundance, Worldfest, Toronto, and Los Angeles Film Festivals, among others. "When indies got really big 10-12 years ago, I did several indies for other people, as an actor," Lynn said. "So, I got re-interested in acting and then eventually in producing indies. Indies were not the same humdrum formula-driven garbage Hollywood kept spitting out -- the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' theory's not for me. Challenge me, move me, stir the audience to some level of emotion besides gratuitous sex and violence; it has been sooooo done! I look at the majority of movies today and it's hilarious. I can do better than that blindfolded. Anybody can make a movie for $20 million -- show me someobody who has made one for under $1 million and I'll show you an artist! There is a niche market out there who will get my work."