Age: 51
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Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.
Michael Shannon
Dr. Otto Hendricks
for Dr. Otto Hendricks in EX-CHANGE
Suggested by officialjohnsilver
During a Spring Weekend reunion between four young women, they discover a UFO crash landed in the North Florida outskirts. Upon finding the spaceship, the four are attacked by a mysterious entity that gives them the ability to switch bodies with someone else for a brief period of time and read into their minds. All is fun and games with the body swapping until the women discover their abilities are causing their physical, psychological, and emotional states to deteriorate and an extraterrestrial threat begins to loom in the Sunshine State. The four young women must uncover the mysteries surrounding their powers and find the source to be free from their abilities before they succumb to becoming something darker while avoiding a government agency with interest to use their abilities as weapons. (MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi violence throughout, sexual content, and brief strong language.) (Influences: Chronicle, Self/Less, and Push). (I am aiming for the deconstructions of the body swap genre, young adult to adulthood, and experimenting with alien powers.)
