Michael Gracey

Producer, Director

Birthdate: June 10, 1976 (49 Years Old)

Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia

Michael Gracey is a feature and music video director who began his filmmaking career as an animator, a commercials director, and a visual effects designer. He then made his feature directorial debut with the mega-hit biopic musical The Greatest Showman (2017), which starred Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya and delivered a powerhouse box office ($459 million) for 20^th Century Fox. Gracey returned as director/co-writer/producer with another big-scale biopic musical, Better Man (2024), a fanciful account of the life and career of pop singer Robbie Williams, co-starring Williams himself and Jonno Davies in a motion capture performance (also as Williams, but as a CGI chimpanzee), with Steve Pemberton and Alison Steadman, and which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was released wide by Paramount Pictures (U.S.)/Entertainment Film Distributors (U.K.)/Roadshow Films (Australia). Gracey was a lead producer only on director/writer Jeremy Zag’s computer-animated musical, Melody (date to be announced), with Katy Perry in the starring voice role.

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Personal life

Michael Gracey was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, by his parents. Gracey has one sister. Gracey attended and graduated from Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.

Known For

Better Man

Director (2024)

P!nk: All I Know So Far

Director (2021)

The Greatest Showman

Director (2017)

Michael Gracey Movies

Director

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2021 |
P!nk: All I Know So Far
P!nk: All I Know So Far
2021
Biography, Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at P!NK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019's "Beautiful Trauma" world tour.
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2017 |
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman
2017
Biography, Drama, Musical
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
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Producer

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2021 |
P!nk: All I Know So Far
P!nk: All I Know So Far
2021
Biography, Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at P!NK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019's "Beautiful Trauma" world tour.
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Writer

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2021 |
P!nk: All I Know So Far
P!nk: All I Know So Far
2021
Biography, Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at P!NK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019's "Beautiful Trauma" world tour.
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Facts About Michael Gracey

Theater of Life: Michael Gracey has commented “I love the idea that you can look around the world and see the theater of life. See the magical and imaginative happening every day, even in the mundane.” The Greatest Break: Gracey landed his feature director debut with The Greatest Showman on the work he did as director of a Japanese TV commercial with Hugh Jackman.

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