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 (2004), that Clint Eastwood-directed Best Picture winner represented Peña's first major Hollywood credit. His involvement only amounted to a small part, but he re-teamed with Baby scripter Paul Haggis for higher (supporting) billing in the latter's Crash (2005) -- also a Best Picture Winner, and this one a searing, acerbic indictment of inner-city racism.
Peña scored one of his first leads under the aegis of director Oliver Stone, co-starring opposite Nicolas Cage in the taut, suspenseful thriller World Trade Center (2006) -- a docudrama about the two New York City Port Authority rescue workers trapped beneath the rubble of the fifth building when the towers fell. Peña followed it up with a turn as a genial, resourceful FBI agent who assists a government-conned scapegoat (Mark Wahlberg) in Antoine Fuqua's conspiracy thriller Shooter (2007), and essayed a key supporting role in director Robert Redford's ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, opposite Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise.
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30 Minutes or Less
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Battle: Los Angeles
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The Good Doctor
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The Lincoln Lawyer
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Tower Heist
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Everything Must Go
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Observe and Report
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The Lucky Ones
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Lions for Lambs
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Shooter
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Babel
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Fifty Pills
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Walkout
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World Trade Center
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Crash
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Little Athens
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Sueño
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The Shield: Hurt
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Million Dollar Baby
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The Calcium Kid
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ER: When Night Meets Day
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Love Object
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Bellyfruit
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NYPD Blue: What a Dump!
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