Michael Sheen
Acting
- Born:
- 1969-02-05
- 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
Known For
Filmography
You Told Us To Talk About the Weather
Buried with Michael Sheen
Out There
Our Town
Buried
Good Omens - Season 3: An Ineffable Goodbye
Train‑ing It with Joe Wilkinson
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
The Celebrity Traitors
The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked
Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
A Very Royal Scandal
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
National Theatre Live: Nye
The Way
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins
Best Interests
Cynefin
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
Written in the Stars
Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama
Fantasy Football League
Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
The Sandman
Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System
Art That Made Us
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Last Train to Christmas
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
How to Build a Girl
Faith Healer
Staged
Good Omens: Lockdown
Quiz
Dolittle
Prodigal Son
7 Up & Me
Good Omens
The Making of 'Nocturnal Animals'
There's Something About Movies
Wales: Land of the Wild
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Apostle
To Provide All People
Saturday Knight Takeaway
Brad's Status
Home Again
House of Games
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
The Good Fight
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Passengers
Nocturnal Animals
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Chelsea
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
You Can Never Really Know Someone
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Top Gear: From A-Z
Barbados
7 Days in Hell
The Spoils Before Dying
Far from the Madding Crowd
Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion
A Life on Screen
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
Kill the Messenger
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
Under Milk Wood
Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast
The Spoils of Babylon
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Masters of Sex
Admission
Gogglebox
The Last Leg
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Heroes & Demons
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Jesus Henry Christ
The Gospel of Us
Resistance
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
The Jonathan Ross Show
Few Options
Beautiful Boy
Midnight in Paris
Installing the Cast
TRON: Legacy
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
The Special Relationship
Unthinkable
My Last Five Girlfriends
A League of Their Own
Alice in Wonderland
Creating Clough
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
A Child's Christmases in Wales
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Michael Sheen Presents - You're The Boss
Live from Studio Five
The Damned United
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Frost/Nixon
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
The Graham Norton Show
The Making of 'The Queen'
Music Within
Blood Diamond
Dead Long Enough
30 Rock
HG Wells: War with the World
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
The Queen
The One Show
The Path to Redemption
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
Underworld: Evolution
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Dirty Filthy Love
Kingdom of Heaven
Doctor Who
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Banker
Laws of Attraction
The Open Doors
Timeline
Bright Young Things
The Deal
Underworld
Heartlands
Punk'd
Top Gear
The Four Feathers
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Lost In France
Animated World Faiths
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Wilde
The Grand
Mary Reilly
Othello
Gallowglass
Sean's Show
Maigret
Have I Got News for You
The Simpsons
The South Bank Show
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
The Price of Admission
Heart of Darkness
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
The 12 Days of Christmas
Fortitude
C.L.A.Y.
Good Omens T3: El final
The Battle for Rome
Have I Got a Bit More News for You