Michael Keaton
Known For
Acting
Born
1951-09-05 in 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 Batman 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.
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Jack Crowley (voice)
Frasier
as Blaine Sternin
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
The Flash
as Bruce Wayne / Batman
The Tony Randall Show
as Zeke
Morbius
as Adrian Toomes
The Protégé
as Michael Rembrandt
The Company
as James Jesus Angleton
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as Ramsey Clark
Inventing the Abbotts
as Narrator (uncredited)
All's Fair
as Lanny Wolf
Worth
as Kenneth Feinberg
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
as Batman (archive footage)
The Comedy Store
as Self
The Whisper Man
America | A Tribute to Heroes
as Self
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour
Untitled Beetlejuice 3
as Beetlejuice
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
as Self
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
as Self