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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-02-17 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Michael Bay

Biography:

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors.

He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).

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Known For

Acting

2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die as Porsche Driver

2023

2020

Bad Boys for Life as Wedding MC

2019

6 Underground as Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)

2014

2012

2011

2009

2007

Transformers as Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited)

2004

2003

Bad Boys II as Crappy Car Driver

2000

1999

Mystery Men as Frat Boy

1998

Armageddon as NASA Scientist (uncredited)

1997

Taff as self

1992

MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self - Presenter

1986

1984

Directing

2025

We Are Storror as Director

2022

Ambulance as Director

2019

6 Underground as Director

2013

Pain & Gain as Director

2007

Transformers as Director

2005

The Island as Director

2003

Bad Boys II as Director

2001

Pearl Harbor as Director

1998

Armageddon as Director

1996

The Rock as Director

1995

Bad Boys as Director

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Fast and Loose as Director

Production

2025

Drop as Producer
We Are Storror as Producer

2024

2022

Ambulance as Producer

2021

2020

Songbird as Producer

2019

6 Underground as Producer

2018

Bumblebee as Producer
A Quiet Place as Producer
The First Purge as Producer
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Executive Producer
The Purge as Executive Producer

2017

Transformers: The Last Knight as Executive Producer

2015

Project Almanac as Producer

2014

The Purge: Anarchy as Producer
Ouija as Producer
Transformers: Age of Extinction as Executive Producer
The Last Ship as Executive Producer
Black Sails as Executive Producer

2013

Pain & Gain as Producer
The Purge as Producer

2011

I Am Number Four as Producer
Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Executive Producer

2009

Horsemen as Producer
The Unborn as Producer
Friday the 13th as Producer

2007

The Hitcher as Producer
Transformers as Executive Producer

2005

The Island as Producer

2001

Pearl Harbor as Producer

1998

Armageddon as Producer

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The Rising as Producer
Wolf Night as Producer
Lure as Producer
Life on Mars as Producer
The Birds as Producer
I Am Yours as Producer
Meet Jimmy as Producer
Inherit the Earth as Producer
Big Rig as Producer

Crew

1993

Indecent Proposal as Second Unit

1984

Night Court as Production Office Assistant

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark as Production Intern