Biography
Michael Shannon - American film actor, the creative biography of which is associated with the films "Surk Day", "Road of Change", "Man of Steel", "Batman against Superman: At the Dawn of Justice". Also Shannon showed himself and as a musician, although this type of art He considers the entertainment rather than the profession.
Michael was born in the American state of Kentucky, in the town of Lexington, where the family lived at that time. The father of the boy, Donald Saterlin Sannon, was a professor of the local University named after the De Field, which was taught accounting. Mom Geraldin Hein occupied a prestigious position in legal office.
The grandfather of the boy in the father's line was illustrized - Raymond Corbett Shannon, who was engaged in entomology and reached in the study of large heights in the insect science. The future actor became the firstborn in the Shannon family. Later, the younger brother Dave and Sister Rebecca was born.
When Michael studied in junior grades, parents decided to part. After the divorce, the children alternately lived in the new family of the Father in Lexington, together with the mother in the city of Chicago, where, often visiting theatrical performances, Michael Shannon and caught fire a dream to become an actor. A young man began his career just on Chicago's theatrical layouts, after which he made a confident step towards the cinema.
A much later Shannon found one more profitable occupation. Together with the friends-actors, Robert Beitzem and Reii Rizzo organized its own music group "Corporal". Michael himself acts as a soloist, and also writes texts for musical compositions. The guys play the style of indie rock and have already managed to release a full-format-dimensional one with the album group, as well as a couple of individual singles "Glory" and "Obama". The last song was devoted to re-election for the second term of the American president of Barack Obama.
Films
After theater career of Michael Shannon started, the actor began to invite to television paintings on episodic roles. The artist appeared in the series "Pursued Woman" and "Angel Street". The first success for Michael came in 1993, when he played Fred in an unusual picture of the "Groundhog Day".
Then the artist's participation in the chain reaction thriller was followed, where Keanu Rivz was reincarnated in the main character, and the scientific fiction series "Tomorrow will come today." The actor appeared in the episodic role and in the military drama "Country of Tigers" with Colin Farrell in the lead role.
Despite the fact that Shannon played in cash blockbusters "Vanilla Sky", "Pearl Harbor" and "Eight Mile", the worldwide popularity of the actor brought the secondary role of John Hivings in the Drama "Road of Change". Also in this film, Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet were shone.
In 2010, a number of successful projects have gave the artist - the Music Film "Ranweaveis" about the fate of the participants of the women's rock band, where Michael appeared in the form of a popular American singer Kim Fowie, the dramatic series of the HBO channel "Underground Empire". For participation in the chicago gangsters, the actor received two awards from the US film actor guild.
Shannon was shot in all projects directed by Jeff Nichols, who considers actors the most talented performer of modernity. Drama "Mad", where, in addition to Michael, played Matthew McConaja, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard. In the film, we were talking about a mysterious man named Mad, who finds shelter in an abandoned boat. His stay is discovered by teenagers who ultimately agree to help the stranger.
The film entered the competitive program of the Cannes Festival, in the US Drama replenished the ranking of the top 10 of the best independent films of the year.
In the shelter thriller, Michael Shannon starred in the leading role of Worker Curtis, who begins to see the apocalyptic dreams at night. The head of the chief character was played by Jessica Chestain. Kinokartina was nominated for a number of prestigious premiums, including the Grand Prix of the Sandens Film Festival. Later Shannon played in a fantastic militant "Special Midnight Release", where his hero, together with his son, had to hide from representatives of the sectarian movement.
The work of Michael Shannon famous for the whole world became the role of General Zoda from the screening of the comic book "Man of Steel". In the image of the same character, the actor appears in the new fantastic action "Batman against Superman: at the dawn of justice." Another work that was replenished with Shannon's filmography in 2014, became the main role of the corrupt realtor Rica Carver in the Drama "99 houses".
Personal life
Unlike Hollywood colleagues, Michael Shannon is not a regular customer of paparazzi and regulars of printing publications specializing in rumors and gossip. The photo of the actor is not sparkled in the tabloids, and only the announcements of Michael films appear in the "Instagram". And all because the actor has been married for many years, although the actual one has been married for many years.
The artist constantly lives in New York, in the Brooklyn area, where has its own living space in the vicinity of the famous RED Hook center. Together with Michael, his civilian wife Kate Arrington lives, also an actress, shot in such television series, as "elementary" and "missing", as well as two daughters - Sylvia and Marion.
Michael Shannon now
Now Michael Shannon, in addition to the acting career, engaged in producing. The first project, spirroined Shannon, became the comedy "Elvis and Nixon", in which the actor played a key character, King Rock and Roll. President of the United States submitted to the public Kevin Spacy. In 2017, Michael participated in the issue of a melodramatic comedy "Crown Reception".For 2018, the premiere of the drama "What they had," the producer and acting project of Shannon was scheduled. The main female character will fulfill in the film Hilary Swank.
In addition to the experience of producing, the actor continues to remove much. Only in 2017, the artist appeared in the films "Potterrsville", "Water Form", "Current War", where the capital heroes played. In the same year, the artist was nominated for the Oscar premium for participating in the Thriller "under the cover of the night", which came out on the screens a year earlier. Shannon played a fictional character of the history of the detective of Bobby Andes.
And in 2018, the drama "as if in a dream", "Cavalry", the series "Tragedy in Waco" and the fantastic film "451 degrees Fahrenheit" were published.
Filmography
- 1993 - "Groundhog Day"
- 2001 - "Vanilla Sky"
- 2002 - "Eight Mile"
- 2008 - "Change Road"
- 2010 - "Rasterweiss"
- 2010-2014 - "Underground Empire"
- 2011 - "Shelter"
- 2013 - "Man of Steel"
- 2014 - "99 houses"
- 2016 - "Special Midnight Release"
- 2016 - "Batman against Superman: at the dawn of justice"
- 2016 - "Under the cover of the night"
- 2017 - "War of currents"
- 2018 - "Tragedy in Waco"