Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor and musician. He made his film debut opposite Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993) and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002), where he portrayed the boyfriend of Eminem's character's mother (Kim Basinger). Shannon is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas. Notable projects include Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Iceman (2012), Man of Steel (2013) and Elvis & Nixon (2016). He is a frequent collaborator with Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). Shannon has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Revolutionary Road (2008) and again for Nocturnal Animals (2016). 99 Homes (2014) further earned him nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shannon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 7, 1974 In Lexington - Kentucky - USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 140
- First Appeared:
- In the movie That Lucky Touch 1975-08-07
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mr. Irrelevant 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mr. Irrelevant | Bill Parcells | 2026 |
| Series | Death by Lightning | James Garfield | 2025-11-06 |
| Movie | Nuremberg | Justice Robert H. Jackson | 2025-11-06 |
| Movie | The Bikeriders | Zipco | 2024-06-19 |
| Movie | A Different Man | Michael Shannon | 2024-08-24 |
| Movie | A Little White Lie | Shriver | 2023-03-03 |
| Series | Waco: The Aftermath | Gary Noesner | 2023-04-16 |
| Movie | Making The Flash: Worlds Collide | Self - 'General Zod' | 2023-08-29 |
| Movie | The Flash | General Zod | 2023-06-13 |
| Movie | Night's End | Isaac Dees | 2022-03-31 |
| Movie | Abandoned | Renner | 2022-06-17 |
| Movie | Amsterdam | Henry Norcross | 2022-09-27 |
| Movie | Bullet Train | White Death | 2022-08-03 |
| Series | George & Tammy | George Jones | 2022-12-04 |
| Series | Nine Perfect Strangers | Napoleon | 2021-08-18 |
| Movie | Heart of Champions | Jack Murphy | 2021-09-16 |
| Movie | The Quarry | Chief Moore | 2020-04-17 |
| Movie | Echo Boomers | Mel Donnelly | 2020-11-13 |
| Movie | State Like Sleep | Edward | 2019-01-04 |
| Movie | Knives Out | Walt Thrombey | 2019-11-27 |
| Movie | The Current War | George Westinghouse | 2018-02-01 |
| Series | Waco | Gary Noesner | 2018-01-24 |
| Movie | 12 Strong | Chief Warrant Officer Hal Spencer | 2018-01-18 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 2018-02-22 | |
| Movie | What They Had | Nick | 2018-10-19 |
| Movie | Friedkin Uncut | Self | 2018-11-05 |
| Movie | Fahrenheit 451 | Captain Beatty | 2018-05-12 |
| Series | The Little Drummer Girl | Martin Kurtz | 2018-10-28 |
| Movie | Poor Boy | Blayde Griggs | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Bob Dylan - Trouble No More | Self | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self | 2017-08-01 |
| Movie | The Shape of Water | Richard Strickland | 2017-12-01 |
| Movie | Pottersville | Maynard Greiger | 2017-11-10 |
| Movie | Complete Unknown | Tom Brayton | 2016-08-26 |
| Movie | Elvis & Nixon | Elvis Presley | 2016-03-22 |
| Movie | Midnight Special | Roy Tomlin | 2016-02-18 |
| Movie | Wolves | Lee Keller | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zod | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | Loving | Grey Villet | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Nocturnal Animals | Bobby Andes | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Salt and Fire | Matt Riley | 2016-12-07 |
| Movie | Frank & Lola | Frank Reilly | 2016-12-09 |
| Movie | The Harvest | Richard | 2015-04-10 |
| Series | Lip Sync Battle | Unknown | 2015-04-02 |
| Movie | She's Funny That Way | Policeman Macy's | 2015-04-22 |
| Movie | Freeheld | Dane Wells | 2015-10-02 |
| Movie | 99 Homes | Rick Carver | 2015-09-25 |
| Movie | The Night Before | Mr. Green | 2015-11-20 |
| Movie | They Came Together | Spike | 2014-06-27 |
| Movie | Young Ones | Ernest Holm | 2014-06-28 |
| Movie | Möbius | Alice's father | 2013-02-17 |
| Movie | Choose You | Avicii | 2013-11-03 |
| Movie | Mud | Galen | 2013-04-26 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | General Zod | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | The Broken Tower | Emile | 2012-04-27 |
| Movie | The Raven | Dr. Morgan | 2012-03-09 |
| Movie | Dark Shadows | Board Member #2 | 2012-05-09 |
| Movie | Happy Hour | Just Mike | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | The Iceman | Richard Kuklinski | 2012-09-01 |
| Movie | Premium Rush | Bobby Monday | 2012-08-24 |
| Movie | Return | Mike | 2011-02-10 |
| Movie | Machine Gun Preacher | Donnie | 2011-09-23 |
| Movie | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche | 2011-09-30 |
| Movie | The Runaways | Kim Fowley | 2010-03-19 |
| Movie | Jonah Hex | Doc Cross Williams | 2010-06-18 |
| Movie | 13 | Henry | 2010-03-12 |
| Movie | Herbert White | Herbert White | 2010-02-13 |
| Movie | I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later | Self | 2010-06-28 |
| Series | Boardwalk Empire | Nelson Van Alden | 2010-09-19 |
| Movie | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Brad McCullum | 2010-07-08 |
| Movie | The Missing Person | John Rosow | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | The Greatest | Jordan Walker | 2009-02-07 |
| Movie | 13 Scarier Movie Moments | Self | 2009-10-10 |
| Movie | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans | Mundt | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Marvelous | John | 2008-02-08 |
| Movie | Revolutionary Road | John Givings | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Blackbird | Murl | 2007-03-12 |
| Movie | Bug | Peter Evans | 2007-02-21 |
| Movie | Shotgun Stories | Son Hayes | 2007-10-01 |
| Movie | Lucky You | Ray Zumbro | 2007-05-01 |
| Movie | You've Got a Friend | Brayton Jennings | 2007-06-09 |
| Movie | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Dex | 2007-09-26 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Dave Karnes | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | President's Aide | 2006-11-02 |
| Movie | Let's Go to Prison | Lynard | 2006-11-17 |
| Movie | American Gun | Jerry | 2005-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Birds | Clyde | 2004-05-19 |
| Movie | Grand Theft Parsons | Larry Oster-Berg | 2004-06-18 |
| Movie | Zamboni Man | Walt | 2004-01-26 |
| Movie | Criminal | Gene | 2004-09-10 |
| Movie | The Woodsman | Rosen | 2004-12-24 |
| Movie | Water | Bobby Matherson | 2004-11-25 |
| Movie | Kangaroo Jack | Frankie Lombardo | 2003-01-17 |
| Movie | Bad Boys II | Floyd Poteet | 2003-07-18 |
| Movie | 8 Mile | Greg Buehl | 2002-11-08 |
| Movie | High Crimes | Troy Abbott | 2002-04-05 |
| Movie | Pearl Harbor | Gooz Wood | 2001-05-21 |
| Movie | New Port South | Stanton | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Vanilla Sky | Aaron | 2001-12-14 |
| Movie | The Photographer | Maurice | 2000-04-15 |
| Movie | Jesus' Son | Dundun | 2000-06-16 |
| Movie | Mullitt | Phil Kunz | 2000-01-20 |
| Movie | Cecil B. Demented | Petie | 2000-08-02 |
| Movie | Tigerland | Sgt. Filmore | 2000-10-06 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | Only Love | Dr. Duncan | 1998-05-10 |
| Movie | 30 Years to Life | Graham | 1998-10-15 |
| Movie | Chicago Cab | Crack Head | 1998-09-18 |
| Movie | The Ride | Jimmy | 1997-10-01 |
| Movie | Hostile Waters | Admiral | 1997-10-18 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | D.C. Flower Delivery Man | 1996-08-02 |
| Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
| Movie | Night Watch | Martin Schraeder | 1995-10-04 |
| Movie | The Affair | Capt. Ford | 1995-10-14 |
| Movie | Royce | Senator Scanlon | 1994-08-31 |
| Movie | Fatherland | US Ambassador | 1994-11-26 |
| Movie | Groundhog Day | Fred | 1993-02-11 |
| Movie | Overexposed | Young Man | 1992-10-11 |
| Series | The Big Battalions | David | 1992-11-19 |
| Movie | Pride and Extreme Prejudice | Chapinski | 1990-01-17 |
| Series | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Morley Kennerly | 1989-04-30 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Ivanov | 1989-05-09 |
| Movie | Out of the Shadows | Frank Osbourne | 1988-09-02 |
| Series | The Two Mrs. Grenvilles | Jack Fisher | 1987-02-08 |
| Series | A Very Peculiar Practice | Vice-Chancellor Jack Daniels | 1986-05-21 |
| Movie | Death of an Angel | Bishop Holmes | 1986-03-07 |
| Movie | The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story | Senator John Tunney | 1986-11-24 |
| Movie | Little Shop of Horrors | Television Reporter | 1986-12-19 |
| Movie | Sheena | Phillip Ames | 1984-08-17 |
| Movie | Making Love | Marty | 1982-02-12 |
| Series | Riker | Brice Landis | 1981-03-14 |
| Movie | Never Never Land | Peter | 1980-12-25 |
| Movie | Superman II | President's Aide | 1980-12-12 |
| Movie | The Best Place to Be | Patrick Callahan | 1979-05-27 |
| Movie | Cops and Robin | John Haven | 1978-03-28 |
| Series | Lillie | Freddie Gebhard | 1978-09-24 |
| Series | Future Cop | Haven | 1977-03-05 |
| Series | Rock Follies | 1976-02-24 | |
| Movie | Future Cop | Haven | 1976-05-01 |
| Movie | That Lucky Touch | Lt. Davis | 1975-08-07 |