Michael Shannon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

Aug 7, 1974(51 years old)

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.

Known For

71%

8 Mile

08 Nov 2002

76%

Groundhog Day

11 Feb 1993

69%

Pearl Harbor

21 May 2001

61%

World Trade Center

09 Aug 2006

68%

Vanilla Sky

14 Dec 2001

70%

Revolutionary Road

19 Dec 2008

50%

Jonah Hex

18 Jun 2010

59%

Abandoned

17 Jun 2022

64%

High Crimes

05 Apr 2002

62%

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

11 Sep 2009

71%

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

26 Sep 2007

McCarthy

67%

Bad Boys II

18 Jul 2003

63%

Jesus' Son

16 Jun 2000

69%

Shotgun Stories

01 Oct 2007

58%

Let's Go to Prison

17 Nov 2006

65%

The Runaways

19 Mar 2010

61%

Bug

21 Feb 2007

69%

The Woodsman

24 Dec 2004

56%

The Missing Person

16 Jan 2009

51%

The End

06 Dec 2024

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

20 Oct 2014

60%

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

08 Jul 2010

59%

12 Mar 2010

66%

The Flash

13 Jun 2023

67%

Machine Gun Preacher

23 Sep 2011

70%

Take Shelter

30 Sep 2011

66%

Man of Steel

12 Jun 2013

63%

Premium Rush

24 Aug 2012

66%

The Iceman

01 Sep 2012

57%

Dead Birds

19 May 2004

64%

Return

10 Feb 2011

50%

The Broken Tower

27 Apr 2012

42%

Night's End

31 Mar 2022

71%

Mud

26 Apr 2013

55%

Chicago Cab

18 Sep 1998

56%

They Came Together

27 Jun 2014

35%

The Photographer

15 Apr 2000

25%

Blackbird

12 Mar 2007

57%

Young Ones

28 Jun 2014

38%

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

29 Aug 2023

50%

Mullitt

20 Jan 2000

60%

The Harvest

10 Apr 2015

62%

Midnight Special

18 Feb 2016

54%

Choose You

03 Nov 2013

Dead Guy

64%

Cecil B. Demented

02 Aug 2000

71%

Herbert White

13 Feb 2010

68%

99 Homes

25 Sep 2015

67%

The Bikeriders

19 Jun 2024

Nuremberg

06 Nov 2025

58%

Grand Theft Parsons

18 Jun 2004

53%

Kangaroo Jack

17 Jan 2003

72%

Freeheld

02 Oct 2015

60%

Elvis & Nixon

22 Mar 2016

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

07 Aug 2019

69%

A Different Man

24 Aug 2024

The Young King

56%

Frank & Lola

09 Dec 2016

60%

She's Funny That Way

22 Apr 2015

48%

State Like Sleep

04 Jan 2019

74%

Nocturnal Animals

04 Nov 2016

49%

Salt and Fire

07 Dec 2016

58%

Chain Reaction

02 Aug 1996

61%

The Night Before

20 Nov 2015

67%

Loving

04 Nov 2016

40%

Poor Boy

13 Jul 2018

51%

Complete Unknown

26 Aug 2016

59%

Wolves

25 Oct 2016

62%

Criminal

10 Sep 2004

72%

The Shape of Water

01 Dec 2017

62%

The Greatest

07 Feb 2009

56%

Lucky You

01 May 2007

41%

New Port South

07 Sep 2001

66%

Tigerland

06 Oct 2000

10%

Overexposed

11 Oct 1992

The Ride

01 Oct 1997

70%

Zamboni Man

26 Jan 2004

Marvelous

08 Feb 2008

Happy Hour

12 Oct 2012

90%

Water

25 Nov 2004

49%

Pottersville

10 Nov 2017

67%

The Current War

01 Feb 2018

60%

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

23 Mar 2016

63%

12 Strong

18 Jan 2018

65%

What They Had

19 Oct 2018

54%

Fahrenheit 451

12 May 2018

64%

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More

02 Oct 2017

70%

Friedkin Uncut

05 Nov 2018

64%

Long Way Back Home

20 Aug 2018

78%

Knives Out

27 Nov 2019

57%

Echo Boomers

13 Nov 2020

52%

The Quarry

17 Apr 2020

20%

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

01 Aug 2017

76%

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

24 Jun 2019

66%

Heart of Champions

16 Sep 2021

90%

13 Scarier Movie Moments

10 Oct 2009

57%

A Little White Lie

03 Mar 2023

80%

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter

22 Apr 2013

74%

Bullet Train

03 Aug 2022

61%

Amsterdam

27 Sep 2022

Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

28 Jun 2010

Mr. Irrelevant

Bulls

73%

Early Edition

57%

Room 104

79%

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

76%

Little Demon

80%

Boardwalk Empire

70%

George & Tammy

53%

Late Night with Seth Meyers

64%

The Daily Show

74%

Waco

59%

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

71%

The Little Drummer Girl

69%

Waco: The Aftermath

64%

Lip Sync Battle

Death by Lightning

Stars in the House

63%

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

43%

The View

40%

Off Camera with Sam Jones

69%

Nine Perfect Strangers

72%

Crossing Jordan

50%

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

73%

Early Edition

73%

Early Edition