- Bassist and backup vocalist for the punk band Green Day.
- The pressures of Mike being in Green Day were too much for him and Anastasia to deal with, so they separated.
- His nickname for his daughter is Hero.
- Earned his trademark last name from the sound that he had made in high school. He would play 'Air Bass Guitar', making a 'dirnt, dirnt, dirnt' noise. From there, it stuck.
- He and his girlfriend, Brittney, have welcomed their first child together, a boy named Brixton Michael Dirnt, on October 11, 2008. He weighed 8 lbs.
- Lives in Los Angeles, California.
- Plays in a side band called The Frustrators, which is on the record label that band mate Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day co-owns.
- Married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996
- Has a daughter, Estelle-Desiree. (b. April, 1997)
- His band, Green Day, is in the studio with Butch Vig, recording the follow-up to their 2004 classic "American Idiot". (October 2008)
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