Michael Shannon
Birthday: 1974-08-07
Place of Birth: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Biography: Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.
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8 Mile
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...
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Groundhog Day
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish camera...
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Pearl Harbor
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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World Trade Center
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Tra...
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Vanilla Sky
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins fall...
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Revolutionary Road
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with th...
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Jonah Hex
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbul...
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Abandoned
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with...
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High Crimes
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accu...
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutena...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,...
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McCarthy
A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti...
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Bad Boys II
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping...
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Shotgun Stories
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of t...
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Jesus' Son
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassio...
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Let's Go to Prison
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intende...
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The Runaways
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwome...
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Bug
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Pe...
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The Woodsman
After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brothe...
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The Missing Person
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investig...
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The End
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son ...
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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the wh...
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and ...
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13
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world ...
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The Flash
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in ...
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Machine Gun Preacher
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for ...
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Take Shelter
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter ...
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Man of Steel
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he jou...
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Premium Rush
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who p...
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The Iceman
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man....
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Dead Birds
Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation...
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Return
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she...
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The Broken Tower
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by ju...
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Night's End
An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to per...
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Mud
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reuni...
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Chicago Cab
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad par...
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They Came Together
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development....
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The Photographer
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his a...
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Blackbird
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls...
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Young Ones
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soi...
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The Harvest
After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, ...
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Midnight Special
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers....
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Choose You
This is what it looks like when Lena Dunham, Spike Jonze, Avicii, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Shanno...
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Dead Guy
When an abrasive old man suddenly dies in the apartment of a neighbor, an absurd game of hot potato ...
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Cecil B. Demented
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess ...
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Herbert White
Michael Shannon stars in the role of Herbert White, a character based on the poem of the same name b...
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99 Homes
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tri...
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The Bikeriders
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club t...
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Nuremberg
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on ...
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Grand Theft Parsons
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times.....
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Kangaroo Jack
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob a...
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Freeheld
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle ...
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Elvis & Nixon
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be ...
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outst...
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A Different Man
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance....
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The Young King
In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make h...
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Frank & Lola
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealou...
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She's Funny That Way
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and ...
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State Like Sleep
Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a w...
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Nocturnal Animals
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – aski...
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Salt and Fire
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when...
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Chain Reaction
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasali...
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The Night Before
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends...
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Loving
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-misceg...
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Poor Boy
Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to...
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Complete Unknown
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame w...
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Wolves
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sport...
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Criminal
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a pe...
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The Shape of Water
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute ja...
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Zamboni Man
Zamboni Man is a short story that peers into the lives of two unique and unlikely characters: Walt, ...
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The Greatest
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind...
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Marvelous
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has ...
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Tigerland
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerla...
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Pottersville
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp...
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New Port South
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their sub...
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Lucky You
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome ...
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Happy Hour
When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord...
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Overexposed
Convinced that her husband Norm is being unfaithful, Ann Demski has an affair with family friend Nic...
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Water
On an East Coast Island off season, a woman's naked and badly beaten body washes ashore. Jessy Turne...
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The Current War
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and ...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful ...
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12 Strong
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an ...
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What They Had
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. ...
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Fahrenheit 451
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task....
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Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
This very special film consists of truly electrifying video footage from Bob Dylan’s “born again” pe...
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Friedkin Uncut
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary an...
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Long Way Back Home
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. ...
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Knives Out
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthda...
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Echo Boomers
Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've alwa...
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The Quarry
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a r...
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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, p...
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The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in...
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Heart of Champions
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' live...
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13 Scarier Movie Moments
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009....
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A Little White Lie
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brough...
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Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma so...
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Bullet Train
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the...
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Amsterdam
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects the...
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Wer...
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Mr. Irrelevant
The true story of John Tuggle, who was given the title after being the last pick of the last round o...
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Bulls
Two down-on-their-luck half-brothers run a failing dive bar in Indiana and get a shot at taking on E...
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King Snake
A young couple who inherit a farm in rural Arkansas must conquer the demons, both physical and metap...
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Dinner with Audrey
Based on the true story of the 40-year friendship of Audrey Hepburn and designer Count Hubert de Giv...
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