Michael Shannon Biography

Michael Shannon's 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. After making his small screen debut in a pair of 1992 television movies he broke into features with a brief appearance as a groom in Harold Ramis' 1993 comedy Groundhog Day. His theater work consumed much of his time for the next three years but by 1996 he was landing small but important parts in independent and Hollywood features. Most of these played to his intense brooding energy; he was a drug addict in the indie comedy-drama Hellcab (1998) a gun-toting psychopath in Jesus' Son (1999) and a Vietnam-era sergeant in Tigerland (1999). Occasionally Shannon directed that energy into offbeat comic turns like his Fassbinder-worshipping guerilla filmmaker in John Waters' Cecil B. Demented (2000) or the laconic airman Lt. Gooz Wood in Michael Bay's epic Pearl Harbor (2001).

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