Michael Sheen

Birthday:

02/05/1969

Place of birth:

Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK:

Biography:

Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool With Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. He has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s through his roles in various biographical films. He has starred in a trilogy of films as British politician Tony Blair: the television film The Deal (2003), followed by The Queen (2006) and The Special Relationship (2010). For the role, he was nominated for both a BAFTA Award and an Emmy. He was also nominated for a BAFTA as the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's 2006 Fantabulosa!, and was nominated for a fourth Olivier Award in 2006 for portraying the broadcaster David Frost in Frost/Nixon. He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United (2009). In 2009, he appeared in two fantasy films, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. He also appeared in the science-fiction film Tron: Legacy (2010), and Midnight in Paris (2011). He directed and starred in National Theatre Wales's The Passion (2011). He also played a lead role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in 2012. In 2013, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Showtime's television drama Masters of Sex (2013–2016). He played an incarcerated serial killer surgeon in Fox's 2019 drama, Prodigal Son, an angel in the 2019 BBC/Amazon Studios miniseries Good Omens, and appeared as Chris Tarrant in Quiz in 2020. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Credits

National Theatre Live: Nye (2024)
Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins (2023)
Self
Cynefin (2023)
Self/Narrator
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (2023)
Dylan Thomas (voice)
Written in the Stars (2023)
Narrator (voice)
Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2022)
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2021)
Self
Last Train to Christmas (2021)
Tony Towers
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood (2021)
Owain Jenkins
How to Build a Girl (2020)
Sigmund Freud
Faith Healer (2020)
Francis Hardy
Good Omens: Lockdown (2020)
Aziraphale (voice)
Dolittle (2020)
Dr. Blair Müdfly
7 Up & Me (2019)
Self
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel (2018)
Narrator
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
The Bat
Apostle (2018)
Malcolm Howe
To Provide All People (2018)
Porter
Brad's Status (2017)
Craig Fisher
Home Again (2017)
Austen Bloom
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
Carl Flossy
Passengers (2016)
Arthur
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Carlos Holt
Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (2016)
Self
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town (2016)
Presenter - Narrator
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
White Rabbit (voice)
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
Philip Cohen
You Can Never Really Know Someone (2016)
Henry
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry (2015)
Himself
Barbados (2015)
David
7 Days in Hell (2015)
Caspian Wint
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
William Boldwood
Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion (2015)
Self
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme (2014)
Narrator (voice)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Fred Weil
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (2014)
Himself - Narrator
Under Milk Wood (2014)
First Voice
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Charity
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (2013)
Self
Admission (2013)
Mark
Heroes and Demons (2012)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Aro Volturi
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
The Gospel of Us (2012)
The Teacher
Resistance (2011)
Tommy Atkins
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Aro
Beautiful Boy (2011)
Bill Carroll
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Paul
Installing the Cast (2011)
Self
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Castor / Zuse
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
Dr. Griffiths (voice)
Unthinkable (2010)
Steven Arthur Younger
The Special Relationship (2010)
Tony Blair
My Last Five Girlfriends (2010)
No. 5 - Detective Burnam
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
The White Rabbit (voice)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
Self
A Child's Christmases in Wales (2009)
Narrator (voice)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Aro
The Damned United (2009)
Brian Clough
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Lucian
Frost/Nixon (2008)
David Frost
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space (2007)
Adam Banton
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out (2007)
Self
Music Within (2007)
Art
Blood Diamond (2006)
Simmons
Dead Long Enough (2006)
Harry Jones
HG Wells: War with the World (2006)
H.G. Wells
The Queen (2006)
Tony Blair
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006)
Kenneth Williams
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Lucian
The Path to Redemption (2006)
Self
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
Jeremy
Dirty Filthy Love (2005)
Mark Furness
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Priest
The Banker (2004)
The Banker
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Thorne Jamison
The Open Doors (2004)
Framton Nuttel
Timeline (2003)
Lord Oliver
Bright Young Things (2003)
Miles Maitland
The Deal (2003)
Tony Blair
Underworld (2003)
Lucian
Heartlands (2003)
Colin
The Four Feathers (2002)
William Trench
Doomwatch: Winter Angel (1999)
Angel
Animated Epics: Beowulf (1998)
Wiglaf ( voice )
Wilde (1997)
Robbie Ross
Mary Reilly (1996)
Bradshaw
Othello (1995)
Lodovico
Heart of Darkness ()
(voice)
The Price of Admission ()
Harold Sugar