
Michael Shannon
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 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016).
Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of 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 in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.
Known For | Acting |
---|---|
Most Rating | 0.77 |
Birthday | 1974-08-07 |
Place of Birth | Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
Also Known As | Mike Shannon, Μάικλ Σάνον, 마이클 섀넌, Michael Corbett Shannon, مایکل شنون, |

2002

8 Mile
7.1/7373
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...
Watch Now
8 Mile

1993

Groundhog Day
7.612/8171
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...
Watch Now
Groundhog Day

2001

Pearl Harbor
6.9/6599
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...
Watch Now
Pearl Harbor

2006

World Trade Center
6.1/1672
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Watch Now
World Trade Center

2001

Vanilla Sky
6.813/4221
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...
Watch Now
Vanilla Sky

2008

Revolutionary Road
6.986/3864
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...
Watch Now
Revolutionary Road

2010

Jonah Hex
4.945/1443
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...
Watch Now
Jonah Hex

2022

Abandoned
5.9/274
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...
Watch Now
Abandoned

2002

High Crimes
6.355/800
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....
Watch Now
High Crimes

2009

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
6.2/1149
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...
Watch Now
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2007

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7.113/1540
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...
Watch Now
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead


McCarthy
0/0
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...
Watch Now
McCarthy

2003

Bad Boys II
6.646/5558
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...
Watch Now
Bad Boys II

2007

Shotgun Stories
6.9/191
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...
Watch Now
Shotgun Stories

2000

Jesus' Son
6.3/69
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Watch Now
Jesus' Son

2006

Let's Go to Prison
5.7/303
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...
Watch Now
Let's Go to Prison

2010

The Runaways
6.5/794
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that...
Watch Now
The Runaways

2007

Bug
6.1/555
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...
Watch Now
Bug

2004

The Woodsman
6.901/491
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...
Watch Now
The Woodsman

2009

The Missing Person
5.6/36
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...
Watch Now
The Missing Person

2024

The End
4.8/19
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they...
Watch Now
The End

2014

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
0/0
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.
Watch Now
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

2010

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6/207
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...
Watch Now
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

13
5.8/821
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...
Watch Now
13

2023

The Flash
6.7/4437
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...
Watch Now
The Flash

2011

Machine Gun Preacher
6.7/1055
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...
Watch Now
Machine Gun Preacher

2011

Take Shelter
7.039/1799
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.
Watch Now
Take Shelter

2013

Man of Steel
6.63/15307
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...
Watch Now
Man of Steel

2012

Premium Rush
6.3/2136
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Watch Now
Premium Rush

2012

The Iceman
6.547/1033
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
Watch Now
The Iceman

2004

Dead Birds
5.747/272
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...
Watch Now
Dead Birds

2011

Return
6.429/3749
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Watch Now
Return

2012

The Broken Tower
5.1/21
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Watch Now
The Broken Tower

2022

Night's End
4.4/21
An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism which takes a horrific turn.
Watch Now
Night's End

2013

Mud
7.054/2840
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...
Watch Now
Mud

1998

Chicago Cab
5.4/15
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...
Watch Now
Chicago Cab

2014

They Came Together
5.6/414
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Watch Now
They Came Together

2000

The Photographer
3.5/2
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...
Watch Now
The Photographer

2007

Blackbird
2.5/2
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....
Watch Now
Blackbird

2014

Young Ones
5.7/300
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...
Watch Now
Young Ones

2023

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
3.8/2
Watch Now
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

2000

Mullitt
5/1
Two roommates late on rent have to come up with a quick way to get money.
Watch Now
Mullitt

2015

The Harvest
6/201
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...
Watch Now
The Harvest

2016

Midnight Special
6.243/1905
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Watch Now
Midnight Special

2013

Choose You
5.4/7
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...
Watch Now
Choose You


Dead Guy
0/0
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...
Watch Now
Dead Guy

2000

Cecil B. Demented
6.4/266
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...
Watch Now
Cecil B. Demented

2010

Herbert White
7.1/7
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...
Watch Now
Herbert White

2015

99 Homes
6.8/759
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...
Watch Now
99 Homes

2024

The Bikeriders
6.7/853
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...
Watch Now
The Bikeriders


Nuremberg
0/0
American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself in a c...
Watch Now
Nuremberg

2004

Grand Theft Parsons
5.8/37
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...
Watch Now
Grand Theft Parsons

2003

Kangaroo Jack
5.295/933
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...
Watch Now
Kangaroo Jack

2015

Freeheld
7.227/653
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was...
Watch Now
Freeheld

2016

Elvis & Nixon
5.964/414
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...
Watch Now
Elvis & Nixon

2019

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
0/0
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Musi...
Watch Now
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

2024

A Different Man
7.084/221
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a night...
Watch Now
A Different Man


The Young King
0/0
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...
Watch Now
The Young King

2016

Frank & Lola
5.6/181
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.
Watch Now
Frank & Lola

2015

She's Funny That Way
6/672
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...
Watch Now
She's Funny That Way

2019

State Like Sleep
4.9/33
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...
Watch Now
State Like Sleep

2016

Nocturnal Animals
7.421/7886
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...
Watch Now
Nocturnal Animals

2016

Salt and Fire
4.8/75
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...
Watch Now
Salt and Fire

1996

Chain Reaction
5.756/1100
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of...
Watch Now
Chain Reaction

2015

The Night Before
6.1/1712
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...
Watch Now
The Night Before

2016

Loving
6.7/923
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led...
Watch Now
Loving

2018

Poor Boy
4/7
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...
Watch Now
Poor Boy

2016

Complete Unknown
5.1/168
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...
Watch Now
Complete Unknown

2011

Touch of Evil
6.894/33
Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.
Watch Now
Touch of Evil

2016

Wolves
5.9/65
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...
Watch Now
Wolves

2004

Criminal
6.2/134
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...
Watch Now
Criminal

2017

The Shape of Water
7.243/12252
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...
Watch Now
The Shape of Water

2004

Zamboni Man
7/1
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...
Watch Now
Zamboni Man

2009

The Greatest
6.2/159
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...
Watch Now
The Greatest

2008

Marvelous
0/0
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...
Watch Now
Marvelous

2000

Tigerland
6.6/562
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands...
Watch Now
Tigerland

2017

Pottersville
5/128
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The...
Watch Now
Pottersville

2001

New Port South
4.667/6
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South
Watch Now
New Port South

2007

Lucky You
5.6/266
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...
Watch Now
Lucky You

1997

The Ride
0/0
Three men steal a car.
Watch Now
The Ride

2012

Happy Hour
0/0
When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.
Watch Now
Happy Hour

1992

Overexposed
1/2
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...
Watch Now
Overexposed

2004

Water
0/0
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...
Watch Now
Water

2018

The Current War
6.7/1082
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Watch Now
The Current War

2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
5.975/18151
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...
Watch Now
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

2018

12 Strong
6.334/2996
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Watch Now
12 Strong

2018

What They Had
6.6/114
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.
Watch Now
What They Had

2018

Fahrenheit 451
5.421/870
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Watch Now
Fahrenheit 451

2017

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
6.4/9
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...
Watch Now
Bob Dylan - Trouble No More

2018

Friedkin Uncut
7.023/44
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc...
Watch Now
Friedkin Uncut

2018

Long Way Back Home
6.4/5
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...
Watch Now
Long Way Back Home

2019

Knives Out
7.844/12688
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit B...
Watch Now
Knives Out

2020

Echo Boomers
5.8/113
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...
Watch Now
Echo Boomers

2020

The Quarry
5.3/126
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...
Watch Now
The Quarry

2017

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2/1
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...
Watch Now
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2019

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
7.6/5
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...
Watch Now
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

2021

Heart of Champions
6.6/70
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...
Watch Now
Heart of Champions

2009

13 Scarier Movie Moments
9/4
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
Watch Now
13 Scarier Movie Moments

2023

A Little White Lie
5.6/40
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...
Watch Now
A Little White Lie

2013

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
8/2
Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma sorority sisters.
Watch Now
Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter

2022

Bullet Train
7.4/6497
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...
Watch Now
Bullet Train

2022

Amsterdam
6.064/1571
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...
Watch Now
Amsterdam

2010

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
0/0
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...
Watch Now