Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

actor, producer, director

Michael Shannon was born on Aug 07, 1974 in USA. Michael Shannon's big-screen debut came with Overexposed directed by Robert Markowitz in 1992, strarring Young Man. Michael Shannon is known for George & Tammy directed by John Hillcoat, Jessica Chastain stars as Tammy Wynette and Michael Shannon as George Jones. Michael Shannon has got 34 awards and 100 nominations so far. The most recent award Michael Shannon achieved is Palm Springs International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Michael Shannon plays is The Flash which will be released on Jun 16, 2023.

Michael Corbett Shannon was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University. His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.Shannon began his professional stage career in Chicago. His first acting role was in "Winterset" at the Illinois Theatre Center. Over the next several years, he continued working on the stage with such companies as Steppenwolf, The Next Lab and the Red Orchid Theatre. He subsequently relocated to London for a year, and performed on stage in London's West End in such productions as "Woyzeck", "Killer Joe" and "Bug".While in Chicago, Shannon also kept busy in front of movie and television cameras, most notably in the big screen project Chicago Cab (1997), based on the long-running stage play "Hellcab". Kangourou Jack (2003) marked the third Jerry Bruckheimer production in which Shannon has appeared. He also appeared in Bad Boys II (2003), directed by Michael Bay and starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, and in Grand Theft Parsons (2003), with Johnny Knoxville and Christina Applegate.In addition, Shannon appeared in Pearl Harbor (2001), also directed by Bay. His other film credits also include Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile (2002); Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001) with Tom Cruise; Carl Franklin's Crimes et pouvoir (2002) with Morgan Freeman; John Waters' Cecil B. Demented (2000), and Joel Schumacher's war drama Tigerland (2000).

  • Birthday

    Aug 07, 1974
  • Place of Birth

    Lexington, Kentucky, USA
  • Also known

    Mike Shannon, Μάικλ Σάνον, 마이클 섀넌, Майкл Шеннон

Known For

Awards

34 wins & 100 nominations

Palm Springs International Film Festival
2018
The Shape of Water (2017)
Winner - Chairman's Vanguard Award
2009
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Winner - Ensemble Cast Award
Central Ohio Film Critics Association
2012
Best Actor
Winner - COFCA Award
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