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Nelson Van Alden

Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon is known to TV Flash readers as Nelson Van Alden — a defining face of the catalog era.

Networks & studios

  • HBO — via catalog credits
  • Netflix — via catalog credits

On the dial

Shows in our catalog

HBO · 2010–2014

Boardwalk Empire

Prohibition Atlantic City — Nucky Thompson’s empire in Scorsese-sheen.

Netflix · 2025

Death by Lightning

Garfield assassination as standom tragedy — Shannon and Macfadyen bearded.

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