Born in Nashua, New Hampshire to Jackie and Ray Bernier. Attended both
Grammar and Junior High School in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where the
stage first "discovered" M.F. Bernier. Attended Sanborn Regional High School
in Kingston, and directly after graduation served four years in the
USAF, in both California and Germany. Shortly after being discharged
from the Air Force, returned and resided as an "Ex-Pat" in Wiesbaden,
FRG, playing music in a few bands on the club circuit in Germany, until
the end of 1985.
However, it was another five years before returning to the stage in; I
Never Sang for My Father. In Baltimore, Bernier spent the better part
of a decade on the stage, delivering solid stage work in AXIS
Theatre's; Angels in America, Love!Valour! Compassion! & God's Country.
Though not the only stage in Baltimore where Bernier worked, but his
"heart" will always be with AXIS Theatre and Brian Klaas(Artistc
Director) and Jon Lipitz(Managing Director), with whom Bernier joined
in producing 10 seasons of some of the most artistically fulfilling
theatre in his career to date.
In television, Bernier guest-starred in Cold Case on CBS; in Homicide:
Life on the Street, on NBC; on Las Vegas, for NBC, & the Book Shop
Merchant on Alias, for ABC in the episode; I See Dead People. M.F. has
also enjoyed various leading and supporting roles in both indie films
and major motion pictures, including the leading role opposite Jennifer
Fontaine, in their collaborative work, The Last Time We Were... and
though her scenes were cut from the final edit, but has unequivocally
stated; that working with David Fincher on Zodiac, was just about
the coolest job he's ever done, and what Bernier got from watching David
direct would inspire him to finish writing Glass Houses.
***(Glass Houses - the novel adaptation from the screenplay is well underway and should be available by early 2023)
With their first collaboration on the gripping short; The Last Time We
Were..., Bernier's, Jackie Frost Films and Fontaine's, Scorpio Rising
Films, garnered a Silver Remi at WorldFest/Houston 2006.
Bernier is also eternally grateful to Suzie, for her continued
encouragement and belief in "the dream".
