Michael Bay

Personal Info

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Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-02-17 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Michael Bay

Biography

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him ...

Acting

2000

Coyote Ugly

as Photographer

2011

2007

Transformers

as Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited)

1999

Mystery Men

as Frat Boy

2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

as Porsche Driver

2020

Bad Boys for Life

as Wedding MC

2019

6 Underground

as Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)

2003

Bad Boys II

as Crappy Car Driver

2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Truck Passenger (uncredited)

1998

Armageddon

as NASA Scientist (uncredited)

2024

Production

1998

Armageddon

as Producer

1998

Armageddon

as Director

2005

The Island

as Producer

2005

The Island

as Director

2001

Pearl Harbor

as Director

2001

Pearl Harbor

as Producer

2005

2007

Transformers

as Director

2024

Apartment 7A

as Producer

2007

The Hitcher

as Producer

1995

Bad Boys

as Director

2003

Bad Boys II

as Director

1996

The Rock

as Director

2011

I Am Number Four

as Producer

2009

Horsemen

as Producer

2013

Pain & Gain

as Producer

2013

Pain & Gain

as Director

2013

The Purge

as Producer

2015

Project Almanac

as Producer

2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as Executive Producer

2009

The Unborn

as Producer

2014

2014

Ouija

as Producer

2009

Friday the 13th

as Producer

2009

2007

Transformers

as Executive Producer

1993

Indecent Proposal

as Second Unit

-

The Rising

as Producer

2024

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

as Production Intern

2025

Drop

as Producer

2018

Bumblebee

as Producer

-

Wolf Night

as Producer

2018

A Quiet Place

as Producer

2017

Transformers: The Last Knight

as Executive Producer

-

Lure

as Producer

2016

2024

Transformers One

as Producer

2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Executive Producer

2019

6 Underground

as Director

-

Life on Mars

as Producer

2018

The First Purge

as Producer

-

The Birds

as Producer

-

I Am Yours

as Producer

2021

2019

6 Underground

as Producer

-

Meet Jimmy

as Producer

-

2021

2020

Songbird

as Producer

2022

Ambulance

as Director

2022

Ambulance

as Producer

-

Fast and Loose

as Director

-

Big Rig

as Producer

2025

We Are Storror

as Director

2025

We Are Storror

as Producer

-

OutRun

as Director

-

OutRun

as Producer

-

Sponsor

as Producer

-

Saturation Point

as Producer

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