Biography
Joel Michaely is an actor and producer, known for The Rules of Attraction (2002), Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Saint Clare
2025
as Cole Edwards
In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks...

Saint Clare
2025
Producer
In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks...

The House From...
2024
as Self
Focuses on memorable homes from movies and TV series, and includes interviews with residents of such properties to share the unique experience of livi...

Running on Empty
2024
Executive Producer
When Mort finds out he has less than a year to live, his fiancé Nicole leaves him and he’s forced to accept his fate. Mort joins a dating service that...

The Re-Education of Molly Singer
2023
as Scott Perkins
In college, attorney Molly Singer was the life of every party. Now, she's about to be fired because she can't leave her partying ways behind. Molly's ...

Mutt
2023
Producer
Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight...

Downtown Owl
2023
Executive Producer
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitc...

Rare Objects
2023
Executive Producer
A young woman seeks to rebuild her life when she takes work at an antique store. She regains her confidence from the kind souls who own the shop, unti...

High Heat
2022
Executive Producer
When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in an...

Collide
2022
Executive Producer
A gripping chronicle of three couples over the course of one fateful night in an LA restaurant named Collide. Hunter finds himself on an awkward blind...

Panama
2022
Executive Producer
An ex-marine is hired by a defense contractor to travel to Panama to complete an arms deal. In the process he becomes involved with the U.S. invasion ...

The Card Counter
2021
as Ronnie
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry yo...

Wild Indian
2021
as Jonathan
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secr...

The Card Counter
2021
Executive Producer
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry yo...

Wild Indian
2021
Executive Producer
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secr...

Lansky
2021
as Jimmy the Bookie
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the ret...

Run Hide Fight
2021
as Mr. Yates
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-s...

Vanquish
2021
as Rayo
Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding b...

Me You Madness
2021
as Pat
Beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious, intelligent, and successful businesswoman Catherine Black lives a life of luxury in an architectural dream house in M...

You Are My Home
2020
as Charlie
This drama follows the relationship of a heartbroken woman and a young immigrant girl who has lost her mother at the border, coming together just befo...

The Comeback Trail
2020
as Andre
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting ...

The Comeback Trail
2020
Executive Producer
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting ...

The Courier
2019
as Alan Green
Ezekiel Mannings, a vicious crime boss, is out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle cour...

1st Born
2019
as Moyel / Rabbi
Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.

Welcome to Mercy
2018
Producer
When a single mother begins to experience symptoms of the stigmata, she seeks the help of a local priest and nun to help her understand what is seen a...

Little Women
2018
as Steven Henry
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage ...

Andover
2018
as Professor Mitchell
Genetics professor Adam Slope clones his wife Dawn after she dies in a fire but the woman he creates is different than the woman he loved, so he tries...

Wild Nights with Emily
2018
as Edward Dickinson
Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woma...

Hollywood Dirt
2017
as Justin
Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how...

Carrie Pilby
2017
as George
Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test ...

The Better Half
2015
A mother dies unexpectedly leaving her soul split, one-half redeemable and the other in need of redemption.

Private Number
2015
as Roland Sanchez
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip o...

I Am Michael
2015
Producer
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

Mantervention
2014
Producer
Spencer turns to his best friend who's planned an unorthodox "mantervention" filled with debauchery to convert him from hopeless romantic to forever p...

#Stuck
2014
as Pee Man
A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.

#Stuck
2014
Producer
A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.

Adult World
2014
Executive Producer
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship ...

Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
as Joel
Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from "Cruising" as a starting point to a broader exploration of sexual and c...

Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013
as Robert
After turning 40, filmmaker Anna confronts her future. She has no job and it's been ten years since her last girlfriend. No goals, plans or any idea o...

Isolated
2013
as Self - Ambassador for Peace
Five world class surfers travel to New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves, but end up discovering so much more.

Vamps
2012
as Nerdy Sales Guy
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has ...

Boy Toy
2011
as Dominic
Jake: an unsuccessful - yet well endowed - underwear model in L.A, who finds a lucrative new line of work as a platonic escort for women of a certain ...

Logorama
2009
as Big Boy / Green Giant / Mr. Clean (voice)
Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2007
as Peter
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Commi...

Cult
2007
as Alex
While researching a local cult, four college students uncover the existence of a supernatural power that may take their lives...and their souls.

Sunny and Share Love You
2007
as Nicky
Comedy - Kevin Keith Baker follows the bitterly divorced rockers as they unleash their music on a whole new audience: Kindergarteners. By day, they're...

Factory Girl
2006
as Joey
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems ...

Cruel World
2006
as Jack
Following his dismissal from a television reality show, a deranged young man lures a group of beautiful coeds to his abode by telling them they will b...

The Quiet
2005
Producer
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to D...

Born Killers
2005
as Jerry
John and Michael are taught by their father at a young age that people are merely piggy banks... if you need money, just break one open. Charming and ...

Guy in Row Five
2005
as Simon
"Guy in Row Five" is a comedy about a dreamer named Thess who moves to Hollywood to become a star. He lands a job as an extra on the hit TV series "Ro...
L.A. D.J.
2004
as Joel The Party Planner
Two talented brothers live in a small town trailer park have a dream of becoming famous DJ's. They go to L.A. to try and break into the club scene, bu...

Wild Roomies
2004
as Christian
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the h...

Wonderland
2003
as Bruce (scenes deleted)
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The...

Rent Control
2003
as Peter
Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.

The Rules of Attraction
2002
as Raymond
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...

Repli-Kate
2002
as Liquor Store Clerk
A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who love...

Ghost World
2001
as Porno Cashier
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric...

Clay Pride: Being Clay in America
2001
as Gary (voice)
Steve Thompson, age 31, introduces himself to us: he's clay. He talks about the struggle of growing up clay, feeling different, getting picked on at s...

But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
as Joel
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...

Can't Hardly Wait
1998
as Geoff Piccirilli
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night t...
A Love Like This
N/A
as Jeremy
Paul and Leah, in a tale of two lovers, rent a Malibu beach house for the weekend, but there's more to their relationship than it seems.