Michael PeñaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Adept at essaying a broad array of roles, Michael Peña launched his career with guest appearances on such series as NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, and ER, as well as longer stints on Felicity and The Shield. Though his big-screen work officially stretches back several years prior to Million Dollar Baby...Read More

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Observe and Report

Actors: Seth Rogen, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña, Anna Faris, Dan Bakkedahl

Synopsis: The Foot Fist Way director Jody Hill takes the helm for this Seth Rogen comedy concerning an ambitious mall cop who competes with a seasoned detective to bust an elusive flasher. Make a wrong move at Forest Ridge Mall, and you'll have to answer to no-nonsense security head Ronnie Barnhardt (Read More

4/10/09
Pinkville

Actors: Channing Tatum, Michael Peña, Woody Harrelson, Michael Pitt, Toby Jones

Synopsis: Channing Tatum, Michael Peña, and Woody Harrelson star in director Oliver Stone's war drama concerning the investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre. Bruce Willis portrays Army General William R. Peers, the man sent to investigate when U.S. soldiers were accused of slaughtering 500 unarmed My Lai Read More

1/1/09
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Actors: Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Grace Zabriskie, Udo Kier

Synopsis: The first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man whose mystifying experiences lead him to commit a shocking act of matricide. Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny, and William Dafoe Read More

2009
The Lucky Ones

Actors: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña, Molly Hagan, Mark L. Young

Synopsis: Director Neil Burger's road movie The Lucky Ones stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Peña as three Iraq War veterans who take a road trip together. The trio meet on their way home from overseas with Fred Cheaver (Robbins) finishing his service once and for all, while the other two Read More

9/26/08
Lions for Lambs

Actors: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Michael Peña, Andrew Garfield

Synopsis: Robert Redford directs this dramatic tale of intersecting lives that weaves together the stories of an idealistic professor's attempts to inspire a privileged student, a former student of the teacher who is wounded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a congressman whose interactions with a Read More

11/9/07
Shooter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a Read More

3/23/07
Babel

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the Read More

10/27/06
World Trade Center

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: Director Oliver Stone once again offers a powerful and provocative story based on real-life events in this drama. Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Peña) were two officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority who were working their beats on a quiet day in Read More

8/9/06
Fifty Pills

Actors: John Kapelos, Lou Taylor Pucci, Donnell Rawlings, Kristen Bell, Rachel Boston, John Hensley, John Marshall Jones, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Ron Yuan

Synopsis: This collegiate farce directed by Theo Avgerinos had its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. After a party thrown by his roommate, Coleman (John Hensley), violates their dorm-room probation, college freshman (at a thinly veiled New York University) Darren (Lou Taylor Pucci) loses his Read More

2006
Walkout

Actors: Alexa Vega, Michael Peña, Yancey Arias, Laura Elena Harring, Efren Ramirez

Synopsis: Made for cable, Walkout is the true story of a little-known but profoundly significant moment in the history of the Latino community in East Los Angeles. In 1968, Lincoln High School honor student Paula Crisostomo (Alexa Vega), outraged at the shabby treatment afforded Chicano students in the L.A. Read More

2006
Sueño

Actors: John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano, Jose Maria Yazpik

Synopsis: An aspiring musician looking to break big finds the singer who may finally be able to make his dreams come true in director Renee Chabria's musical drama starring John Leguizamo and Elizabeth Peña. There's nothing that Antonio (Leguizamo) wants more out of life than to be standing on the stage Read More

9/30/05
Crash

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Shaun Toub, Brendan Fraser

Synopsis: Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about Read More

5/6/05
The Shield: Hurt

Synopsis: As part of the auto-shop sting operation, Ronnie (David Rees Snell) gets surveillance footage of Russian mobster plotting to torch a building for an insurance scam. Monica (Glenn Close) and Vic (Michael Chiklis) are planning the raid, but Assistant Chief Phillips (Nigel Gibbs) shows up and calls Read More

2005
Little Athens

Actors: Shawn Hatosy, Michelle Horn

Synopsis: The Darwinian plight of a small Arizona town's youthful but aimless population leads to a series of strange confrontations in Lansdown director Tom Zuber's slacker-themed slice of life. While trim-and-tidy outward appearances give Little Athens the illusion of calm tranquility, a look at the life Read More

2005
Million Dollar Baby

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high Read More

12/15/04
Love Object

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Robert Bagnell, Michael Peña

Synopsis: Robert Parigi writes and directs the low-budget horror movie Love Object. Technical writer Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is too shy to reveal his attraction to co-worker Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller). He's only able to relax after ordering Nikki, a Lisa-lookalike sex doll with realistic anatomy. The Read More

2/13/04
The Calcium Kid

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Omid Djalili, Michael Peña, Michael Lerner, Tamer Hassan

2004
Buffalo Soldiers

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) guards against the Soviets while on duty, and rips off the U.S. military while off Read More

7/25/03
ER: When Night Meets Day

Synopsis: This 200th episode of ER (actually the 201st in the syndicated package) occurs during a solar eclipse, with the action alternating between the day and night shifts at County General. Holding down the day shift is a bone-weary Carter (Noah Wyle), who must contend with the victims of a cult mass Read More

2003
Bellyfruit

Actors: Tamara LaSeon Bass, Tonatzin Mondragon, Kelly Vint, Michael Peña, T.E. Russell

Synopsis: In this independent drama, three teenage girls find themselves dealing with that most adult of responsibilities, parenthood, when they unexpectedly become pregnant. Shanika (Tamara LaSeon Bass) was abandoned by her drug-addicted mother and has bounced from one foster home to another ever since. Read More

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part one, Lewis (Clark Johnson) completely drops out of sight after being suspended for a heated confrontation with litigious drug dealer Read More

1998
Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as a two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part two, the homicide unit has been ordered to concentrate exclusively on the murders of a priest and monsignor. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) Read More

1998
Touched By an Angel: At Risk

Synopsis: Youthful lawbreaker Jason DeLee (Vicelllous Reon Shannon) is "volunteered" by Monica (Roma Downey) to participate in a program sponsored by Denver Juvenile Services, wherein at-risk teenagers help out with physically disabled youngsters at the Linwood Children's Academy. Despite his initial Read More

1997
NYPD Blue: What a Dump!

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) investigate the murder of a Russian mail-order bride who wanted to divorce her husband. After losing his cool while investigating an unusual drive-by shooting, Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) wonders if he should go through with his dinner date with Abby (Paige Turco Read More

1997