Michael Cyril Creighton
Also Known As: Michael C. Creighton, MCC, 麥可・西里爾・克瑞頓
Biography: Michael Cyril Creighton is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Howard Morris in Only Murders in the Building, Patrick in High Maintenance, Joe Crowley in Spotlight, and his Writers Guild of America Award-winning web series Jack in a Box. His mother and maternal grandparents raised Creighton on Long Island, New York. He works regularly in film, television and theatre, alternating between comedic and dramatic roles. Sarah Larson of The New Yorker says, "Creighton has a gift for expressing the tension between the desire to connect and the desire to protect oneself." On the stage, Creighton's credits include the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's The Amateurs at Vineyard Theater and the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss at Playwrights Horizons. For his portrayal of Kevin in Stage Kiss, he was named a "Face to Watch" by The New York Times and nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. He has often worked with the Brooklyn-based theatre company The Debate Society, originating several roles. As a writer, in addition to creating and starring in the Writers Guild Award-winning web series Jack in a Box (2009–2012), he wrote and guest starred in an episode of the popular web series High Maintenance created by Katja Blichfeld & Ben Sinclair. The episode is called "Helen". He was a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists and performed weekly in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Long Island, New York, USA
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Sleeping with Other People
Overview: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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American Fiction
Overview: A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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3rd Street Blackout
Overview: A technology-obsessed couple is forced to examine their relationship during a blackout
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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How to Follow Strangers
Overview: There is a true story of a woman who died in her apartment and it took people a year to find her body decomposing in a crisp Chanel suit. A young man becomes obsessed with this urban tragedy and disappears, wondering if anyone will notice. A young woman who shares his commuting schedule DOES notice. And when he resurfaces, she decides to follow him setting of a chain of events that bind them together...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-28
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Fits and Starts
Overview: A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Overview: A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Spotlight
Overview: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Coin Heist
Overview: When a crisis threatens to destroy their high school, four teens hatch a daring plan to raise $10 million. Step one? Breaking into the U.S. Mint.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Game Night
Overview: Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-15
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Home Again
Overview: Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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The Post
Overview: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Untitled Short Film About White People
Overview: In an effort to rid herself of guilt for gentrifying the neighborhood, a WASPy young woman aggressively attempts to befriend the Indian woman who works at the bodega on her block.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-05
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Overview: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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The Outside Story
Overview: After locking himself out of his apartment, an introverted, heartbroken editor finds himself on an epic journey up, down and around his block with life-altering ramifications.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-30
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The Dark End of the Street
Overview: Residents of a suburban community enjoy a night at home with their friends and family, while an ominous threat looms just outside their doors.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-07
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Seneca
Overview: A little story about making it big, natural disasters, and being a dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-04
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Paper Spiders
Overview: A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Handle With Care
Overview: In the wake of a short-lived marriage, a young man sells his unused wedding gifts online and learns valuable life lessons from the people he meets along the way.
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Original Language: en
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The Man with the Bag
Overview: After Santa’s magic bag is stolen, he turns to his naughty list to find Vance, a thief, to help him get it back. Along with his daughter, Santa, and a group of misfits, Vance will have to pull off the greatest heist of his life to save Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-10-03
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