Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

1974-08-07 Lexington, Kentucky, USA 113 Credits

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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Nuremberg

Nuremberg

2025

as Robert H. Jackson

Acting

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

Eric LaRue

2025

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The End

2024

as Father

5.2
Acting

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

All Happy Families

2024

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

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

A Different Man

2024

as Michael Shannon

7.0
Acting

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

The Bikeriders

2024

as Zipco

6.7
Acting

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

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

2023

as Self - 'General Zod'

3.8
Acting
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

2023

Thanks

3.8
The Flash

The Flash

2023

as General Zod

6.6
Acting

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

A Little White Lie

2023

as Shriver

5.7
Acting

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

Amsterdam

2022

as Henry Norcross

6.1
Acting

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

Bullet Train

2022

as White Death

7.4
Acting

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

Abandoned

2022

as Renner

5.9
Acting

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

Night's End

2022

as Isaac Dees

4.2
Acting

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

Heart of Champions

2021

as Jack Murphy

6.6
Acting

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

Echo Boomers

2020

as Mel Donnelly

5.7
Acting

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

The Quarry

2020

as Chief Moore

5.2
Acting

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

Knives Out

2019

as Walt Thrombey

7.8
Acting

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

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

2019

as Self

Acting

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

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

2019

as Don McGahn

7.6
Acting

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

State Like Sleep

2019

as Edward

4.8
Acting

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

Friedkin Uncut

2018

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

What They Had

2018

as Nick

6.6
Acting

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

What They Had

2018

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Long Way Back Home

2018

as Stanton

6.4
Acting

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

Poor Boy

2018

as Blayde Griggs

4.0
Acting

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

Fahrenheit 451

2018

as Captain Beatty

5.4
Acting

In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

The Current War

The Current War

2018

as George Westinghouse

6.7
Acting

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

12 Strong

12 Strong

2018

as Chief Warrant Officer Hal Spencer

6.3
Acting

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

The Shape of Water

2017

as Richard Strickland

7.2
Acting

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

Pottersville

2017

as Maynard Greiger

4.9
Acting

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

Pottersville

Pottersville

2017

Executive Producer

4.9
Producing

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

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More

2017

as Self

6.4
Acting

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

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2017

as Self

2.0
Acting

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

Signature Move

2017

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

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

Frank & Lola

2016

as Frank Reilly

5.6
Acting

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

Salt and Fire

2016

as Matt Riley

4.9
Acting

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

Nocturnal Animals

2016

as Bobby Andes

7.4
Acting

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

Loving

2016

as Grey Villet

6.7
Acting

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

Wolves

Wolves

2016

as Lee Keller

5.9
Acting

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

Complete Unknown

2016

as Tom Brayton

5.1
Acting

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

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

2016

as Zod

6.0
Acting

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

Elvis & Nixon

2016

as Elvis Presley

6.0
Acting

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

Elvis & Nixon

2016

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Midnight Special

2016

as Roy Tomlin

6.2
Acting

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

The Night Before

The Night Before

2015

as Mr. Green

6.1
Acting

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

Freeheld

2015

as Dane Wells

7.2
Acting

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

99 Homes

2015

as Rick Carver

6.8
Acting

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

She's Funny That Way

2015

as Policeman Macy's

6.0
Acting

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

The Harvest

2015

as Richard

6.0
Acting

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

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

2014

as Self

Acting

A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Young Ones

Young Ones

2014

as Ernest Holm

5.7
Acting

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

They Came Together

2014

as Spike

5.6
Acting

A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.

Choose You

2013

as Avicii

5.4
Acting

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

Sparrows Dance

2013

Thanks

6.3

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

Man of Steel

2013

as General Zod

6.6
Acting

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

Mud

2013

as Galen

7.1
Acting

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

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter

2013

8.0
Acting

Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma sorority sisters.

Happy Hour

Happy Hour

2012

as Just Mike

Acting

When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.

The Iceman

The Iceman

2012

as Richard Kuklinski

6.6
Acting

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

Premium Rush

Premium Rush

2012

as Bobby Monday

6.3
Acting

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

The Broken Tower

2012

as Emile

5.0
Acting

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

Touch of Evil

2011

as The Tycoon

7.0
Acting

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

Take Shelter

Take Shelter

2011

as Curtis LaForche

7.0
Acting

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

Machine Gun Preacher

2011

as Donnie

6.7
Acting

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

Return

2011

as Mike

6.4
Acting

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

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

as Brad McCullum

6.0
Acting

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

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

2010

as Self

Acting

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

Jonah Hex

2010

as Doc Cross Williams

5.0
Acting

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

The Runaways

The Runaways

2010

as Kim Fowley

6.5
Acting

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

13

13

2010

as Henry

5.8
Acting

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

7.1
Acting

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

9.0
Acting

Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2009

as Mundt

6.2
Acting

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

The Greatest

2009

as Jordan Walker

6.2
Acting

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

The Missing Person

2009

as John Rosow

5.6
Acting

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

Revolutionary Road

2008

as John Givings

7.0
Acting

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

Marvelous

2008

as John

Acting

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

Shotgun Stories

2007

as Son Hayes

6.9
Acting

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

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

as Dex

7.1
Acting

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

Lucky You

2007

as Ray Zumbro

5.6
Acting

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

Blackbird

2007

as Murl

2.5
Acting

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

Bug

2007

as Peter Evans

6.1
Acting

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

Let's Go to Prison

2006

as Lynard

5.7
Acting

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

World Trade Center

2006

as Dave Karnes

6.1
Acting

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

The Woodsman

The Woodsman

2004

as Rosen

6.9
Acting

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

Water

2004

as Bobby Matherson

9.0
Acting

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

Criminal

2004

as Gene

6.2
Acting

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

Grand Theft Parsons

2004

as Larry Oster-Berg

5.8
Acting

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

Dead Birds

2004

as Clyde

5.7
Acting

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

Zamboni Man

2004

as Walt

7.0
Acting

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

Bad Boys II

2003

as Floyd Poteet

6.7
Acting

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

Kangaroo Jack

2003

as Frankie Lombardo

5.3
Acting

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

8 Mile

2002

as Greg Buehl

7.1
Acting

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

High Crimes

2002

as Troy Abbott

6.4
Acting

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

Vanilla Sky

2001

as Aaron

6.8
Acting

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

New Port South

2001

as Stanton

4.1
Acting

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

Pearl Harbor

2001

as Gooz Wood

6.9
Acting

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

Tigerland

2000

as Sgt. Filmore

6.6
Acting

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

Cecil B. Demented

2000

as Petie

6.4
Acting

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

Jesus' Son

2000

as Dundun

6.3
Acting

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

The Photographer

The Photographer

2000

as Maurice

3.5
Acting

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

Mullitt

2000

as Phil Kunz

5.0
Acting

Two roommates late on rent have to come up with a quick way to get money.

Chicago Cab

Chicago Cab

1998

as Crack Head

5.5
Acting

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

Acting

Three men steal a car.

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction

1996

as D.C. Flower Delivery Man

5.8
Acting

At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of ...

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

1993

as Fred

7.6
Acting

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

1.0
Acting

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

McCarthy

N/A

as Joseph McCarthy

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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.