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 Bro...
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Complete Filmography

Nuremberg
2025
as Robert H. Jackson
American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself in a c...

Eric LaRue
2025
Director
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a n...

The End
2024
as Father
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they ...

All Happy Families
2024
Executive Producer
The Landrys are blindsided by news of their son's behavior, and must rally to find their way amidst comical family dysfunction.

A Different Man
2024
as Michael Shannon
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a night...

The Bikeriders
2024
as Zipco
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2023
as Self - 'General Zod'

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2023
Thanks

The Flash
2023
as General Zod
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...

A Little White Lie
2023
as Shriver
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote...

Amsterdam
2022
as Henry Norcross
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...

Bullet Train
2022
as White Death
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as La...

Abandoned
2022
as Renner
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the...

Night's End
2022
as Isaac Dees
An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism which takes a horrific turn.

Heart of Champions
2021
as Jack Murphy
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over ...

Echo Boomers
2020
as Mel Donnelly
Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to th...

The Quarry
2020
as Chief Moore
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's u...

Knives Out
2019
as Walt Thrombey
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit B...

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Musi...

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
as Don McGahn
A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of...

State Like Sleep
2019
as Edward
Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spou...

Friedkin Uncut
2018
as Self
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc...

What They Had
2018
as Nick
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

What They Had
2018
Executive Producer
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

Long Way Back Home
2018
as Stanton
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucer...

Poor Boy
2018
as Blayde Griggs
Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up...

Fahrenheit 451
2018
as Captain Beatty
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

The Current War
2018
as George Westinghouse
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

12 Strong
2018
as Chief Warrant Officer Hal Spencer
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

The Shape of Water
2017
as Richard Strickland
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphi...

Pottersville
2017
as Maynard Greiger
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The ...

Pottersville
2017
Executive Producer
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The ...

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
2017
as Self
This very special film consists of truly electrifying video footage from Bob Dylan’s “born again” period, shot on the last leg of his ’79-’80 tour, mu...

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and hi...

Signature Move
2017
Executive Producer
A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim m...

Frank & Lola
2016
as Frank Reilly
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.

Salt and Fire
2016
as Matt Riley
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they ...

Nocturnal Animals
2016
as Bobby Andes
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, s...

Loving
2016
as Grey Villet
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led ...

Wolves
2016
as Lee Keller
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popula...

Complete Unknown
2016
as Tom Brayton
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a tra...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Zod
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...

Elvis & Nixon
2016
as Elvis Presley
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangero...

Elvis & Nixon
2016
Executive Producer
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangero...

Midnight Special
2016
as Roy Tomlin
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

The Night Before
2015
as Mr. Green
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parti...

Freeheld
2015
as Dane Wells
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was ...

99 Homes
2015
as Rick Carver
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with th...

She's Funny That Way
2015
as Policeman Macy's
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio...

The Harvest
2015
as Richard
After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s str...

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Young Ones
2014
as Ernest Holm
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to st...

They Came Together
2014
as Spike
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Choose You
2013
as Avicii
This is what it looks like when Lena Dunham, Spike Jonze, Avicii, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Shannon get together. Dunham wrote a short film for Sund...

Sparrows Dance
2013
Thanks
A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she ...

Man of Steel
2013
as General Zod
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...

Mud
2013
as Galen
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
2013
Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma sorority sisters.

Happy Hour
2012
as Just Mike
When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.

The Iceman
2012
as Richard Kuklinski
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.

Premium Rush
2012
as Bobby Monday
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

The Broken Tower
2012
as Emile
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Touch of Evil
2011
as The Tycoon
Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

Take Shelter
2011
as Curtis LaForche
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

Machine Gun Preacher
2011
as Donnie
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnappe...

Return
2011
as Mike
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Brad McCullum
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzo...

Jonah Hex
2010
as Doc Cross Williams
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...

The Runaways
2010
as Kim Fowley
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that...

13
2010
as Henry
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...
Herbert White
2010
as Herbert White
Michael Shannon stars in the role of Herbert White, a character based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart. The story follows Herbert as he wo...
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009
as Self
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
as Mundt
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...

The Greatest
2009
as Jordan Walker
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, an...

The Missing Person
2009
as John Rosow
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...

Revolutionary Road
2008
as John Givings
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their ...

Marvelous
2008
as John
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her ...

Shotgun Stories
2007
as Son Hayes
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and bac...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
as Dex
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and ...

Lucky You
2007
as Ray Zumbro
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poke...

Blackbird
2007
as Murl
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. ...

Bug
2007
as Peter Evans
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she esta...

Let's Go to Prison
2006
as Lynard
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in pris...

World Trade Center
2006
as Dave Karnes
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The Woodsman
2004
as Rosen
After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophi...

Water
2004
as Bobby Matherson
On an East Coast Island off season, a woman's naked and badly beaten body washes ashore. Jessy Turner , the sister of the murdered woman, comes to the...

Criminal
2004
as Gene
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: se...

Grand Theft Parsons
2004
as Larry Oster-Berg
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times... Gram Parsons was one of the most influential mus...

Dead Birds
2004
as Clyde
Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the m...

Zamboni Man
2004
as Walt
Zamboni Man is a short story that peers into the lives of two unique and unlikely characters: Walt, a Zamboni driver and Tyler, a young graceful figur...

Bad Boys II
2003
as Floyd Poteet
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They tra...

Kangaroo Jack
2003
as Frankie Lombardo
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but...

8 Mile
2002
as Greg Buehl
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary...

High Crimes
2002
as Troy Abbott
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador....

Vanilla Sky
2001
as Aaron
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...

New Port South
2001
as Stanton
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South

Pearl Harbor
2001
as Gooz Wood
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love ...

Tigerland
2000
as Sgt. Filmore
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands...

Cecil B. Demented
2000
as Petie
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground...

Jesus' Son
2000
as Dundun
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

The Photographer
2000
as Maurice
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...

Mullitt
2000
as Phil Kunz
Two roommates late on rent have to come up with a quick way to get money.

Chicago Cab
1998
as Crack Head
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of...
The Ride
1997
as Jimmy
Three men steal a car.

Chain Reaction
1996
as D.C. Flower Delivery Man
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of ...

Groundhog Day
1993
as Fred
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the sma...
Overexposed
1992
as Young Man
Convinced that her husband Norm is being unfaithful, Ann Demski has an affair with family friend Nick. When she realizes that Nick contrived the evide...

McCarthy
N/A
as Joseph McCarthy
A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti-communist and anti-homosexual U.S. political sent...
Dead Guy
N/A
When an abrasive old man suddenly dies in the apartment of a neighbor, an absurd game of hot potato begins with the not-so-dearly departed, as neighbo...
The Young King
N/A
as Mick
In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make her debut performance in America’s biggest drag kin...
Untitled Mr. Irrelevant Movie
N/A
as Bill Parcells
The true story of John Tuggle, who was given the title after being the last pick of the last round of the 1983 NFL draft.
Bulls
N/A
as Alistair Whitman
Two down-on-their-luck half-brothers run a failing dive bar in Indiana and get a shot at taking on England’s elite darts champions.