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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
Victor Von Doom
for Victor Von Doom in Venom Beyond Darkness: Episode 2
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The episode opens on the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier as Phil Coulson rushes to find Nick Fury but ends up having to just tell Maria Hill that they found an alien symbiote. After telling her the two go back to the lab where they meet with Miles Warren. The episode follows the three as they test on the symbiote and try to figure out where it came from. Meanwhile somewhere else we see a mysterious figure in the shadows speaking with scientist Arnim Zola about the symbiote making its way to Earth. The mysterious figure asks Zola if Hydra knows about it yet to which Zola replies they and S.H.I.E.L.D are the only ones. The mysterious figure reaches his hand out of the shadows and points at a screen playing footage of a symbiote coming to earth 19 years ago in 2004. They watch the as the symbiote in the video kills 200,000 people in Japan alone. The figure tells Zola that an organization called S.W.O.R.D managed to capture the symbiote and eventually found a way to kill it with fire and sound waves. The figure comes out of the shadows to reveal his scarred face and tells Zola they are going to need that symbiote if the next step of their plan is to succeed. We cut back to the Helicarrier where they continue to test on it but after a couple of hours an alarm goes off alerting the everyone on the Hellicarrier that there has been a breach. Phil, Maria, and Miles go to see what it is but when they get back the symbiote is gone and so is the breach.
