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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
Joseph Lorenzini
for Joseph Lorenzini in Hawkeye: Freefall
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After a couple of year of training his friend's daughter Kate Bishop Clint has done some damage to the criminal underworld as his alter ego Ronin. Now that things have settled Clint has to worry about the villains the Hood after he is hired by Intelligencia to assassinate the Swordsman now that they are done with using him as a decoy. Meanwhile Kate Bishop is looking into a masked vigilante going around wearing the old Ronin costume killing mob bosses and crime lords. The new Ronin eventually gets himself a target on the back when the Hood hires Bullseye to find out who he is. All of these stories come together when Clint, Kate, and Swordsman track the Hood down to where Bullseye and Ronin are fighting. Clint gets in the middle of the fight and they all cut each other pretty well. Meanwhile Swordsman and Kate are fighting the Hood which ends in Swordsman sacrificing himself to save Kate. Clint manages to take down Bullseye and Ronin gets away. He goes over to the alley where him and Kate say their goodbyes to Swordsman as he dies. The movie ends with Hawkeye getting a call from an anonymous number causing him to make Kate the new Hawkeye and leave New York.
