Michael Sheen 1969 56
Michael Sheen 1969 56
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.
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2025 The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
2025 Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary as Self
2025 The 12 Days of Christmas as Henry Sullivan
2025 Heart of Darkness as (voice)
2025 The Price of Admission as Harold Sugar
2025 Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway as Self Producer
2025 Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell as Self
2024 Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special as Self - Audience Member
2024 Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location as Narrator (voice)
2024 National Theatre Live: Nye as Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
2024 The Assembly as Self - Interviewed Guest
2023 Christmas with Katherine Jenkins as Self
2023 Cynefin as Self/Narrator
2023 Pouring Water on Troubled Oil as Dylan Thomas (voice)
2023 Written in the Stars as Narrator (voice)
2022 Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
2022 Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System
2021 Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Self
2021 Last Train to Christmas as Tony Towers
2021 National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood as Owain Jenkins
2020 How to Build a Girl as Sigmund Freud
2020 Faith Healer as Francis Hardy
2020 Good Omens: Lockdown as Aziraphale (voice)
2020 Dolittle as Dr. Blair Müdfly
2019 7 Up & Me as Self
2019 Good Omens as Aziraphale
2018 Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel as Narrator
2018 Slaughterhouse Rulez as The Bat
2018 Apostle as Malcolm Howe
2018 To Provide All People as Porter
2017 Brad's Status as Craig Fisher
2017 Home Again as Austen Bloom
2017 Il était une fois... « The Queen » as Self
2017 Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special as Carl Flossy
2016 Passengers as Arthur
2016 Nocturnal Animals as Carlos Holt
2016 Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016 Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously as Self
2016 Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town as Presenter - Narrator
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
2016 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer as Philip Cohen
2016 You Can Never Really Know Someone as Henry
2015 A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Himself
2015 Barbados as David
2015 7 Days in Hell as Caspian Wint
2015 Far from the Madding Crowd as William Boldwood
2015 Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion as Self
2014 War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme as Narrator (voice)
2014 Kill the Messenger as Fred Weil
2014 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime as Himself - Narrator
2014 Under Milk Wood as First Voice
2013 The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box as Charity
2013 Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
2013 Admission as Mark
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Aro
2012 Jesus Henry Christ as Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
2012 The Gospel of Us as The Teacher
2011 Resistance as Tommy Atkins
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Aro
2011 Beautiful Boy as Bill Carroll
2011 Midnight in Paris as Paul
2011 Heroes and Demons
2011 Installing the Cast as Self
2010 TRON: Legacy as Castor / Zuse
2010 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue as Dr. Griffiths (voice)
2010 Unthinkable as Steven Arthur Younger
2010 The Special Relationship as Tony Blair
2010 My Last Five Girlfriends as No. 5 - Detective Burnam
2010 Alice in Wonderland as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
2010 Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
2009 A Child's Christmases in Wales as Narrator (voice)
2009 The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Aro
2009 The Damned United as Brian Clough
2009 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Lucian
2008 Frost/Nixon as David Frost
2007 Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as Adam Banton
2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007 Music Within as Art
2006 Blood Diamond as Simmons
2006 Dead Long Enough as Harry Jones
2006 HG Wells: War with the World as H.G. Wells
2006 The Queen as Tony Blair
2006 The Path to Redemption as Self
2006 Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! as Kenneth Williams
2006 Underworld: Evolution as Lucian
2005 The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Jeremy
2005 Dirty Filthy Love as Mark Furness
2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Priest
2004 The Banker as The Banker Executive Producer
2004 Laws of Attraction as Thorne Jamison
2004 The Open Doors as Framton Nuttel
2003 Timeline as Lord Oliver
2003 Bright Young Things as Miles Maitland
2003 The Deal as Tony Blair
2003 Underworld as Lucian
2003 Heartlands as Colin
2002 The Four Feathers as William Trench
1999 Doomwatch: Winter Angel as Angel
1998 Animated Epics: Beowulf as Wiglaf ( voice )
1997 Wilde as Robbie Ross
1996 Mary Reilly as Bradshaw
1995 Othello as Lodovico
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6.61 Crime 1
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