Michael Shannon

Total Box Office:
 $1149.3M
Highest Rated:
98% Mud (2013)
Lowest Rated:
8% Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Birthday:
Aug 7
Birthplace:
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Bio:
Michael Shannon grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and 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…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Midnight Special
  • Actor
-- 2015
56% Man of Steel
  • General Zod
$291.0M 2013
67% The Iceman
  • Richard Kuklinski
$1.9M 2013
98% Mud
  • Galen
$21.6M 2013
83% Return
  • Actor
$6.7k 2012
76% Premium Rush
  • Bobby Monday
$20.3M 2012
23% The Raven
  • Dr. Morgan
$16.0M 2012
20% Broken Tower
  • Emile
-- 2011
8% 13
  • Henry
-- 2011
92% Take Shelter
  • Curtis
$1.7M 2011
80% Return
  • Mike
-- 2011
29% Machine Gun Preacher
  • Donnie
$0.5M 2011
12% Jonah Hex
  • Doc Cross Williams
$10.5M 2010
69% The Runaways
  • Kim Fowley
$2.0M 2010
64% The Missing Person
  • John Rosow
-- 2009
87% Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  • Mundt
$1.6M 2009
50% My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
  • Brad McCullum
-- 2009
52% The Greatest
  • Jordan Walker
$33.6k 2009
68% Revolutionary Road
  • John Givings
$22.9M 2008
91% Shotgun Stories
  • Son Hayes
-- 2007
29% Lucky You
  • Ray Zumbro
$5.7M 2007
Crowley
  • Actor
-- 2007
88% Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  • Dex
$7.0M 2007
12% Let's Go To Prison
  • Lynard
$5.5M 2006
68% World Trade Center
  • Dave Karnes
$70.2M 2006
Marvelous
  • Actor
-- 2006
61% Bug
  • Peter Evans
$7.0M 2006
50% Dead Birds
  • Actor
-- 2004
88% The Woodsman
  • Rosen
$1.5M 2004
69% Criminal
  • Gene
$0.7M 2004
8% Kangaroo Jack
  • Frankie
$66.7M 2003
44% Grand Theft Parsons
  • Larry Oster-Berg
-- 2003
23% Bad Boys II
  • Floyd Poteet
$138.4M 2003
76% 8 Mile
  • Greg Buehl
$116.6M 2002
31% High Crimes
  • Abbott
$41.4M 2002
25% Pearl Harbor
  • Gooz
$197.8M 2001
40% Vanilla Sky
  • Aaron
$100.5M 2001
52% Cecil B. Demented
  • Petie
-- 2000
81% Jesus' Son
  • Dundun
-- 1999
16% Chain Reaction
  • D.C. Flower Delivery Man
-- 1996
97% Groundhog Day
  • Fred
-- 1993


TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
88% Boardwalk Empire
  • Nelson Van Alden
  • Agent Nelson Van Alden
2010-2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Actor
1999-2013

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Quotes from Michael Shannon's Characters

    1. Richard Kuklinski: You see the Iceman crying?
    From The Iceman. Submitted by Prattay S (55 days ago)
    1. General Zod: I was bred to be a warrior, Kal. Trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train? On a farm?
    From Man of Steel. Submitted by Eric G (2 months ago)
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