Michael Koloi was born and raised in Kolomotu'a Tongatapu, did all his childhood and secondary schooling there and was Head Boy Prefect of Tonga High School. 

He moved to NZ in 2000, started a part time job at McDonalds in PAlmerston North, finished off 7th form and then got a degree in Performing Arts majoring in Acting. However since then he has worked a variety of jobs from working graveyard shifts in Warehouses, to painting houses, to managing a Central Auckland Gym, to acting on Shortland street, being a presenter on TV3, working on theatre productions to being a logistics planner for the North Island of NZ planning and controlling all the trucking routes for supermarket deliveries. 

Today, he is happily married with 4 kids, looks after all the hardware stores in the North Island by supplying them gates and fencing, is a trainer at Keven Mealamu's Fit60 gym in Takanini and is currently cast and working on an upcoming web series