VIDEO: Sneak Peek - Tony Nominee Michael Shannon Channels '80's Rock on LIP SYNC BATTLE

Watch as Tony nominee Michael Shannon takes the stage with "Here Comes Your Man" by 80's rock band, the Pixies! on Thursday night's LIP SYNC BATTLE. Shannon and Rachel Bloom face off on the show airing June 16th at 10p/9c.

Michael Shannon was recently nominated for a 2016 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play. He will next star in The Night Before opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Lizzy Caplan, and Jeff Nichol's Midnight Special opposite Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton and Sam Shepard. Shannon's previous collaborations with Nichols include Take Shelter, for which he received a 2011 Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor; as well as the films Mud and Shotgun Stories. Shannon recently completed production on Liza Johnson's Elvis & Nixon opposite Kevin Spacey, Matthew M. Ross' Frank and Lola opposite Imogen Poots, and Untitled Joshua Marston Project, co-starring opposite Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover.

In 2012, Shannon appeared opposite Paul Rudd, Ed Asner, and Kate Arrington in Grace at the Cort Theatre, for which he was nominated for a 2013 Distinguished Performance Drama League Award. In 2010, he led Craig Wright's Off-Broadway play, Mistakes Were Made, at the Barrow Street Theater, which earned him an Outstanding Lead Actor Lortel Award nomination, an Outstanding Actor in a Play Drama Desk Award nomination, an Outstanding Solo Performance Outer Critics Award nomination, and a Distinguished Performance Drama League Award nomination.

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