Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton is my favorite kind of actor: the one nobody saw coming, twice. A comedy guy from small-town Pennsylvania got handed Batman and silenced the doubters; decades later, when Hollywood had quietly filed him away, he returned with the kind of late-career run, capped by an Emmy, that most actors never get even once. What I read in that arc is patience and a total lack of vanity; he never seemed to chase stardom, only interesting work, which is probably why the work stayed interesting. Even his stage name, adopted because his real one was taken, tells you he travels light.

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Name (English)

Michael Keaton

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・キートン

Reading

まいける・きーとん

Born

September 5, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

film actor / actor / singer / film director / character actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

High school

Montour High School

University

Kent State University

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2014 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/michaelkeatondouglas/
• Xhttps://x.com/MichaelKeaton
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Keaton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138005

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• film actor
• actor
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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