Michael Bay was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He was raised by his adoptive parents Harriet, a bookstore owner/
child psychiatrist, and Jim, a
CPA.
[7] Bay's grandfather was Russian.
[8] His cousin, Susan Bay, is the wife of
Star Trek actor
Leonard Nimoy.
[9] He attended the exclusive
Crossroads School, in
Santa Monica, California.
[10]
Bay often traces his interest in action films back to an incident during his childhood. As a boy, he attached some firecrackers to a toy train and filmed the ensuing fiery disaster with his mother's
8mm camera. The fire department was called and he was grounded.
[11]
Career
Bay got his start in the film industry interning with
George Lucas when he was fifteen, filing the
storyboards for
Raiders of the Lost Ark, which he thought was going to be terrible. His opinion changed after seeing it in the theater and he was so impressed by the experience that he decided to become a film director.
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