Michael Shannon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1974-08-07 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Michael Shannon

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 widesprea...

Acting

2002

8 Mile

as Greg Buehl

1993

2001

Pearl Harbor

as Gooz Wood

2006

World Trade Center

as Dave Karnes

2001

Vanilla Sky

as Aaron

2008

Revolutionary Road

as John Givings

2010

Jonah Hex

as Doc Cross Williams

2022

Abandoned

as Renner

2002

High Crimes

as Troy Abbott

-

McCarthy

as Joseph McCarthy

2003

Bad Boys II

as Floyd Poteet

2007

Shotgun Stories

as Son Hayes

2000

Jesus' Son

as Dundun

2006

2010

The Runaways

as Kim Fowley

2007

Bug

as Peter Evans

2004

The Woodsman

as Rosen

2009

The Missing Person

as John Rosow

2024

The End

as Father

2010

13

as Henry

2023

The Flash

as General Zod

2011

Take Shelter

as Curtis LaForche

2013

Man of Steel

as General Zod

2012

Premium Rush

as Bobby Monday

2012

The Iceman

as Richard Kuklinski

2004

Dead Birds

as Clyde

2011

Return

as Mike

2012

2022

Night's End

as Isaac Dees

2013

Mud

as Galen

1998

Chicago Cab

as Crack Head

2014

2000

2007

Blackbird

as Murl

2014

Young Ones

as Ernest Holm

2023

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

as Self - 'General Zod'

2000

Mullitt

as Phil Kunz

2015

The Harvest

as Richard

2016

Midnight Special

as Roy Tomlin

2013

Choose You

as Avicii

2000

2010

Herbert White

as Herbert White

2015

99 Homes

as Rick Carver

2024

2025

Nuremberg

as Robert H. Jackson

2004

Grand Theft Parsons

as Larry Oster-Berg

2003

Kangaroo Jack

as Frankie Lombardo

2015

Freeheld

as Dane Wells

2016

Elvis & Nixon

as Elvis Presley

2024

A Different Man

as Michael Shannon

2016

Frank & Lola

as Frank Reilly

2015

She's Funny That Way

as Policeman Macy's

2019

2016

Nocturnal Animals

as Bobby Andes

2016

Salt and Fire

as Matt Riley

1996

Chain Reaction

as D.C. Flower Delivery Man

2015

The Night Before

as Mr. Green

2016

Loving

as Grey Villet

2018

Poor Boy

as Blayde Griggs

2016

Complete Unknown

as Tom Brayton

2011

Touch of Evil

as The Tycoon

2016

Wolves

as Lee Keller

2004

Criminal

as Gene

2017

The Shape of Water

as Richard Strickland

2004

2009

The Greatest

as Jordan Walker

2008

Marvelous

as John

2000

Tigerland

as Sgt. Filmore

2017

Pottersville

as Maynard Greiger

2001

New Port South

as Stanton

2007

Lucky You

as Ray Zumbro

1997

The Ride

as Jimmy

2012

Happy Hour

as Just Mike

1992

Overexposed

as Young Man

2004

Water

as Bobby Matherson

2018

The Current War

as George Westinghouse

2018

12 Strong

as Chief Warrant Officer Hal Spencer

2018

2018

Fahrenheit 451

as Captain Beatty

2018

2018

2019

Knives Out

as Walt Thrombey

2020

Echo Boomers

as Mel Donnelly

2020

The Quarry

as Chief Moore

2021

Heart of Champions

as Jack Murphy

2023

2022

Bullet Train

as White Death

2022

Amsterdam

as Henry Norcross

-

Bulls

as Alistair Whitman

Production

2025

Eric LaRue

as Director

2024

All Happy Families

as Executive Producer

2018

What They Had

as Executive Producer

2017

Pottersville

as Executive Producer

2013

2017

Signature Move

as Executive Producer

2016

Elvis & Nixon

as Executive Producer

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