Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

Watch him go nuclear, for example, in 2011’s Take Shelter – perhaps the hardest role to shed of them all – as a man slowly unravelling under apocalyptic visions.

Hollywood a-lister Michael Shannon is known for his intense performances in films like Take Shelter, Knives Out, Mud and Man of Steel. He’s twice been nominated for an Oscar, thanks to his roles in ...