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Michael Keaton
Known for: ActingMichael 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.
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Toy Story 3
as Ken (voice)
Jackie Brown
Spider-Man: Homecoming
The Whisper Man
The Flash
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Cars
as Chick Hicks (voice)
Spotlight
as Walter 'Robby' Robinson
Beetlejuice
Knox Goes Away
as John Knox
Batman Returns
American Assassin
Minions
The Other Guys
Need for Speed
as Monarch
The Founder
as Ray Kroc
Dopesick
as Samuel Finnix
Batman
Dumbo
as V. A. Vandevere
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Hawaiian Vacation
as Ken (voice)
The Protégé
as Michael Rembrandt
Morbius
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Ray Peyton Sr.
RoboCop
First Daughter
as President Mackenzie
Clear History
Pacific Heights
as Carter Hayes
The Company
as James Jesus Angleton
White Noise
as Jonathan Rivers
Jack Frost
Buccaneers & Bones
as Host
Much Ado About Nothing
Post Grad
as Walter Malby
The Paper
Goodrich
as Andy
The Comedy Store
as Self
Penthouse North
as Hollader
Worth
as Kenneth Feinberg
Night Shift
as Bill Blazejowski
The Dream Team
Desperate Measures
as Peter McCabe
Multiplicity
Gung Ho
as Hunt Stevenson
Mr. Mom
My Life
as Bob Jones
The Last Time
as Ted
One Good Cop
as Artie Lewis
Clean and Sober
as Daryl Poynter
Live from Baghdad
as Robert Wiener
The Squeeze
as Harry Berg
The Merry Gentleman
as Frank Logan
Quicksand
as Martin Raikes
A Shot at Glory
Touch and Go
Game 6
as Nicky Rogan
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self - Host