1. Michael Keaton 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.
64 Facts About Michael Keaton
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Michael Keaton gained wider stardom portraying the titular superhero in Batman and Batman Returns.
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Michael Keaton performed voice roles in the animated films Cars, Toy Story 3, and Minions.
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Michael Keaton experienced a career resurgence after taking a starring role as a faded actor attempting a comeback in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Michael Keaton has since acted in biographical dramas such as Spotlight, The Founder, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Worth.
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Michael Keaton portrayed the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, while reprising his roles as Batman in The Flash and the title role in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Michael Keaton starred as a journalist in the HBO film Live from Baghdad.
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Michael Keaton portrayed a drug-addicted doctor in the Hulu limited series Dopesick, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
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Michael Keaton directed the films The Merry Gentleman and Knox Goes Away, in which he played the starring role.
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Michael Keaton John Douglas, the youngest of seven children, was born at Ohio Valley Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania, on September 5,1951.
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Michael Keaton was raised between McKees Rocks, Coraopolis and Robinson Township, Pennsylvania.
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Michael Keaton's father, George A Douglas, worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth, was a homemaker, and came from McKees Rocks.
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Michael Keaton said he liked going to Catholic school and being an altar boy, and the school shaped who he was.
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Michael Keaton's mother was of Irish descent, while his father was of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German and English ancestry, and was originally from a Protestant family.
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Michael Keaton graduated with the class of 1969, and studied speech for two years at Kent State University, where he appeared in plays, and returned to Pennsylvania to pursue his career.
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Michael Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh public television programs Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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Michael Keaton performed stand-up comedy during his early years to supplement his income.
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Michael Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts.
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Michael Keaton popped up in various popular TV shows including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour.
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Michael Keaton decided to use a stage name to satisfy SAG rules, as there were already an actor and daytime host with the same or similar names.
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Michael Keaton has said in several interviews that he searched a phone book under "K", saw "Michael Keaton" and decided to stop looking.
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Night Shift led to Michael Keaton becoming a leading man in the 1983 comedy hit Mr Mom.
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Michael Keaton was pigeonholed as a comic lead during this time with films like Johnny Dangerously, Gung Ho, The Squeeze, and The Dream Team, though Michael Keaton tried to transition to dramatic leads as early as 1984, playing a hockey player in Touch and Go, which was shelved until 1986.
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Michael Keaton played the title character in Tim Burton's horror-comedy Beetlejuice, earning Keaton widespread acclaim and boosting him to Hollywood's A list.
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Michael Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero of the 1989 film Batman.
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Michael Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel Batman Returns, which was another critically acclaimed success.
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Michael Keaton was initially set to reprise the role again for a third Batman film, even going as far as to show up for costume fitting.
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However, when Burton was dropped as director of the film, Michael Keaton left the franchise as well.
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Michael Keaton was reportedly dissatisfied with the screenplay approved by the new director, Joel Schumacher.
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Michael Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including Pacific Heights, One Good Cop, My Life and the star-studded Shakespearean story Much Ado About Nothing.
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Michael Keaton starred in The Paper and Multiplicity, and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films Jackie Brown and Out of Sight.
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Michael Keaton made the family holiday movie Jack Frost and the thriller Desperate Measures.
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Michael Keaton starred as a political candidate's speechwriter in 1994's Speechless.
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Michael Keaton had a cameo in the Tenacious D short film Time Fixers, an iTunes exclusive.
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Michael Keaton reportedly was cast as Jack Shephard in the series Lost, with the understanding that the role of Jack would be a brief one.
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Michael Keaton starred in the 2007 TV miniseries The Company, set during the Cold War, in which he portrayed the real-life CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton.
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Michael Keaton provided the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3.
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Michael Keaton played Captain Gene Mauch in the comedy The Other Guys.
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Michael Keaton starred alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman or, playing Riggan Thomson, a screen actor, famous for playing the titular superhero, who puts on a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story to regain his former glory.
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Michael Keaton won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Thomson and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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In 2015, Keaton appeared as Walter V Robinson in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder.
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On July 28,2016, Michael Keaton was honored with the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film.
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In 2017, Michael Keaton played the supervillain the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Later that year, Michael Keaton portrayed Stan Hurley in American Assassin.
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In 2020, Michael Keaton appeared in a small role as US Attorney General Ramsey Clark in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a legal drama directed by Aaron Sorkin about seven anti-Vietnam protesters charged with inciting riots in 1968.
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In 2021, Michael Keaton starred as American lawyer Kenneth Feinberg in the Netflix biographical drama film Worth.
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Michael Keaton won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role.
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Michael Keaton cites his performance in 1988's Clean and Sober as an early preparation for Dopesick.
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Michael Keaton filmed scenes to reprise the character in Batgirl starring Leslie Grace, set for a release on HBO Max, taking some inspiration from the acclaimed DC Animated Universe animated series Batman Beyond with Keaton playing the elder Bruce Wayne as the title character's mentor and remote coordinator in the Batcave, only for the film's release to be cancelled in August 2022.
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Michael Keaton stated that he didn't care about that decision because he had made money making the film, though he said he felt badly for the film's directors.
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Michael Keaton reprised the character in the 2023 film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, in an ultimately deleted scene.
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Michael Keaton starred in and directed the 2023 noir thriller Knox Goes Away.
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In 2024, Michael Keaton reprised his role as Betelgeuse for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Michael Keaton next starred in Goodrich, a film about a man whose second wife suddenly leaves him, forcing him to take sole care of their nine-year-old twins.
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Michael Keaton was married to Caroline McWilliams from 1982 to 1990.
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Michael Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 1990 to 1995.
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Michael Keaton did however take time off from filming the sequel Batman Returns in order to return to Pittsburgh to support the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals.
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Michael Keaton has been seen regularly at Penguins home playoff games.
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Michael Keaton often attends Pittsburgh Steelers games and, during the 2005 AFC Championship Game, he wandered onto the camera frame of the KDKA pregame coverage, surprising reporter John Steigerwald.
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Michael Keaton wrote an ESPN blog on the Pirates during the final months of their 2013 season.
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Michael Keaton supported Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton for president in the 2016 US presidential election, and Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election.
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Over his career Michael Keaton has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, six Critics Choice Movie Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award and British Academy Film Award.
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Michael Keaton was honored with a Career Achievement Award from the Hollywood Film Festival.
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Michael Keaton is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.