
Michael Bay
Directing
Born: 1965-02-17 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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:
🎬 Movies (30)

A Quiet Place Part III
2027
Producer

Drop
2025
Producer

We Are Storror
2025
Director

Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024
Porsche Driver

Apartment 7A
2024
Producer

A Quiet Place: Day One
2024
Producer

Transformers One
2024
Producer

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
Producer

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2022
Self (archive footage)

Ambulance
2022
Director

A Quiet Place Part II
2021
Producer

The Forever Purge
2021
Producer

Bad Boys for Life
2020
Wedding MC

Songbird
2020
Producer

6 Underground
2019
Director

Bumblebee
2018
Producer

A Quiet Place
2018
Producer

The First Purge
2018
Producer

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Director

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016
Director

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016
Producer

The Purge: Election Year
2016
Producer

Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
Producer

Project Almanac
2015
Producer

Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Self

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Director

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
Producer

The Purge: Anarchy
2014
Producer

Ouija
2014
Producer

Pain & Gain
2013
Director
📺 TV Shows (12)

Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
2024
Executive Producer

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
Executive Producer

The Purge
2018
Executive Producer

Billion Dollar Wreck
2016
Executive Producer

The Last Ship
2014
Executive Producer

Black Sails
2014
Executive Producer

The Neighbors
2012
Michael Bay

On the Lot
2007

Taff
1997
self

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Self - Presenter

Miami Vice
1984
Goon #3

Night Court
1984
Production Office Assistant