Michael McKean is an actor, known for Whatever Works, This Is Spinal Tap, Clue, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Other film credits include The Meddler, The Words, A Mighty Wind, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), My First Mister, Best in Show, Archibald the Rainbow Painter, and Waiting for Guffman.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut and Theatre World Award-winning role as the Wife’s Lover in Accomplice (Richard Rodgers Theatre), J. Edgar Hoover/Senator Robert Byrd in All the Way and Edna Tumblad in Hairspray (Neil Simon Theatre), Dick Jensen in The Best Man (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre), Arthur Przybyszewski in Superior Donuts (Music Box Theatre), Sam in The Homecoming (Cort Theatre), and Hines in The Pajama Game (American Airline Theatre); and Off-Broadway, in The Exonerated (Bleecker Street Theatre), Gloucester in King Lear (Newman Theatre), Stage Manager in Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre), and Phil Wellman in A Second Hand Memory (Linda Gross Theatre).