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name: "Michael Karasick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-karasick"
fi1m_id: "mike-karasick"
imdb_id: "nm0438971"
tmdb_id: 1440304
wikidata_id: "Q118126221"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T10:55:23.017544+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Michael Karasick

## Identity

Michael Karasick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-karasick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-karasick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0438971
- **TMDB ID:** 1440304
- **Wikidata ID:** Q118126221
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126221, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1440304

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Mike Karasick, Michael I. Karasick, Mike I. Karasick
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126221, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1440304

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Vampire Diaries*](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md) (71)

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## Biography

Michael Karasick is a cinematographer and director. Credited variously as Mike Karasick, Michael I. Karasick and Mike I. Karasick, he began in the camera and electrical department, working as gaffer and chief lighting technician on films such as *Suicide Kings* (1997), *Bug* (2007), *Faster* (2010), *Easy A* (2010) and *Friends with Benefits* (2011).

He later became director of photography on episodes of *The Vampire Diaries* (2013–2016) and directed two episodes of the series in 2016. Karasick has directed further episodes of *Legacies* and served as cinematographer on series including *Dynasty*, *Stargirl*, *Monarch* and *True Lies*.

*Sources: imdb.com, vampirediaries.fandom.com, michaelkarasickdp.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Monarch* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *Legacies* (2018), series, Director
- *Stand Up Guys* (2012), Gaffer, Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Friends with Benefits* (2011), as Chief Lighting Technician
- *Faster* (2010), Gaffer
- *Easy A* (2010), as Chief Lighting Technician
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)
- *Elsewhere* (2009), Director of Photography
- *San Saba* (2008), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Bug* (2007), Gaffer
- *The Dead Will Tell* (2004), as Chief Lighting Technician
- *Stolen Poem* (2004), Cinematography
- *Mimic 2* (2001), Gaffer
- *Warm Texas Rain* (2000), Gaffer
- *The Base* (1999), Gaffer
- *Suicide Kings* (1997), Gaffer
- *Black Scorpion II: Aftershock* (1997), Gaffer
- *Inhumanoid* (1996), Gaffer

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