# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-bay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:12:06.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-bay"
name: "Michael Bay"
slug: "michael-bay"
description: "Michael Benjamin Bay 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, Pain & Gain (2013), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$6.6 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-most commercially successful director in history."
tagline: "American film director and producer (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MichaelBay08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.651078924031924
  historical:           26.88073733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
platforms:
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    handle:    "michaelbay"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/michaelbay/"
    handle:    "michaelbay"
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    handle:    "nm0000881"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump