Michael Keaton
Acting
- Born:
- 1951-09-05
- Place of birth:
- Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, he was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. Keaton gained early recognition for his comedic roles in Night Shift (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Beetlejuice (1988). He gained wider stardom portraying the title superhero in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). He took roles in Clean and Sober (1988), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Jack Frost (1998), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and The Other Guys (2010). He also performed voice roles in the animated films Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015). Keaton experienced a career resurgence after taking a starring role as a faded actor attempting a comeback in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman (2014), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since acted in biographical dramas such as Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Worth (2021). He portrayed the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), while also reprising his roles as Man in The Flash (2023) and the title role in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Keaton starred as a journalist in the HBO film Live from Baghdad (2002). He portrayed a drug-addicted doctor in the Hulu limited series Dopesick (2021), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Keaton directed the films The Merry Gentleman (2008) and Knox Goes Away (2023), in which he also played the starring role.
Known For
Filmography
Rode to Ruin
The Whisper Man
The American Revolution
Clemente
Sweetwater
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Goodrich
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Knox Goes Away
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
Superpowered: The DC Story
The Flash
Minions & More Volume 2
Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Morbius
Wings Over Water
Dopesick
The Protégé
Worth
The Comedy Store
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Dumbo
Basketball: A Love Story
Norm Macdonald Has a Show
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
An Evening with Lucia Micarelli
American Assassin
Spider-Man: Homecoming
A Fan's Guide to Spider-Man Homecoming
The Founder
Spotlight
Binky Nelson Unpacified
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Documentary Now!
Minions
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Need for Speed
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
RoboCop
Clear History
Penthouse North
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Inside Comedy
Hawaiian Vacation
Buccaneers & Bones
The Other Guys
Toy Story 3
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Groovin' with Ken
Post Grad
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
The Merry Gentleman
The Company
The Graham Norton Show
Tenacious D: Time Fixers
30 Rock
The Last Time
Cars
Game 6
Herbie Fully Loaded
White Noise
First Daughter
Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Quicksand
Live from Baghdad
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
America: A Tribute to Heroes
A Shot at Glory
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Jack Frost
Out of Sight
Desperate Measures
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Jackie Brown
Frank Capra's American Dream
Inventing the Abbotts
King of the Hill
Multiplicity
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Speechless
The Paper
My Life
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Much Ado About Nothing
Earth and the American Dream
Batman Returns
Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
Rabbit Ears - Mose the Fireman
One Good Cop
Pacific Heights
The Earth Day Special
The Simpsons
Batman
The Dream Team
Clean and Sober
Beetlejuice
She's Having a Baby
Na siehste!
The Squeeze
Touch and Go
Gung Ho
Johnny Dangerously
Mr. Mom
Night Shift
Report to Murphy
Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary
Working Stiffs
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour
Rabbit Test
A Different Approach
Mary
The Tony Randall Show
All's Fair
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Saturday Night Live
Film '72
60 Minutes
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Imagine Agents
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