About Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon is an American actor. Shannon received two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations, for Revolutionary Road , and Nocturnal Animals . He received Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes .
Shannon's film debut was in Groundhog Day . He has also appeared in Jesus' Son , Pearl Harbor , Kangaroo Jack , Before the Devil Knows You're Dead , The Iceman , The Night Before , The Shape of Water , Knives Out , and Bullet Train . He is a frequent collaborator with director Jeff Nichols, having appeared in all of Nichols' films to date: Shotgun Stories , Take Shelter , Mud , Midnight Special and Loving , and The Bikeriders . He played General Zod in the DC Extended Universe films Man of Steel and The Flash .
Shannon made his Broadway debut in the 2012 play Grace. He returned to Broadway playing James Tyrone Jr. in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night , earning a Tony Award nomination. His television roles include a role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire for which he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He also starred in Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers , and Showtime's George & Tammy , the latter of which he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Shannon was born on August 7, 1974, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University, and Geraldine Hine, a lawyer. His paternal grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.
After Shannon's parents divorced, he alternated time with them, living with his mother in Lexington and in Chicago, Illinois, with his father. He attended New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois for two years before moving to Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, for his junior year. While in Lexington, he participated in the Lexington Children's Theatre summer camp and played bass in his first band, The Jehovah Suspects. He returned to Chicago for his senior year at Evanston Township High School, where he dropped out after a semester.
Shannon's first screen role was the main character in the music video for the Every Mother's Nightmare song "House of Pain", where he played a troubled teenager who had run away from his abusive home. Shannon performed on stage in Chicago, where he helped found A Red Orchid Theatre. He worked with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Northlight Theatre. Shannon originated the role of Peter Evans in Bug in 1996 and starred in the 2006 film adaptation. His roles in Bug and Killer Joe were written by Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts.
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