Michael Shannon

Known for Acting

1/24/1943

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Michael Shannon was born on January 24, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (2012), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Superman II (1980).

Known For (50 credits)

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

6.0

Movie

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2018

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

5.7

Movie

Möbius

2013

An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

6.1

Movie

Dark Shadows

2012

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

6.3

Movie

The Raven

2012

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

6.6

Movie

You've Got a Friend

2007

A recently-orphaned 12 year old boy moves to a new town to live with his aunt and uncle, and finds an unlikely mentor in the town loner, who helps him build the soap box racer he dreamed of crafting with his dad.

7.3

Movie

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

7.1

Brothers and Sisters

2006

The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.

5.7

Movie

American Gun

2005

Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.

7.9

Boston Legal

2004

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

5.0

Movie

30 Years to Life

1998

In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.

5.4

Movie

Only Love

1998

Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love.

6.0

Movie

Hostile Waters

1997

Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.