Michael Sheen
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
Credits
- 2022 · Fantasy Football League as Self - Guest
- 2022 · The Sandman as Paul (voice)
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Actor
- 2020 · Staged as Michael
- 2019 · Prodigal Son as Dr. Martin Whitly
- 2019 · Good Omens as Aziraphale
- 2018 · Apostle as Malcolm Howe
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · The Good Fight as Roland Blum
- 2016 · Passengers as Arthur
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as White Rabbit (voice)
- 2016 · Chelsea as Self
- 2016 · Join or Die with Craig Ferguson as
- 2015 · The Spoils Before Dying as Chet
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2013 · Masters of Sex as William Masters
- 2012 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Aro Volturi
- 2012 · Comedy Bang! Bang! as Self
- 2011 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Aro
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2010 · TRON: Legacy as Castor / Zuse
- 2010 · A League of Their Own as
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The White Rabbit (voice)
- 2009 · The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Aro
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Wesley Snipes
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · Doctor Who as House (voice)
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as William Masters (voice)
- Future · Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Self - Presenter
- 2024 · The Way as Denny Driscoll
- 2020 · Quiz as Chris Tarrant
- 2020 · Dolittle as Dr. Blair Müdfly
- 2018 · Slaughterhouse Rulez as The Bat
- 2017 · Home Again as Austen Bloom
- 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- 2016 · Nocturnal Animals as Carlos Holt
- 2016 · Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer as Philip Cohen
- 2015 · Far from the Madding Crowd as William Boldwood
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Himself
- 2014 · Kill the Messenger as Fred Weil
- 2014 · Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast as Himself
- 2014 · The Spoils of Babylon as Chet Halner
- 2013 · The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box as Charity
- 2013 · Admission as Mark
- 2013 · The Great Comic Relief Bake Off as Himself - Contestant
- 2011 · Beautiful Boy as Bill Carroll
- 2011 · Midnight in Paris as Paul
- 2010 · Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue as Dr. Griffiths (voice)
- 2010 · Unthinkable as Steven Arthur Younger
- 2009 · Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Lucian
- 2008 · Frost/Nixon as David Frost
- 2006 · Blood Diamond as Simmons
- 2006 · Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Emperor "Nero" Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
- 2006 · The Queen as Tony Blair
- 2006 · Underworld: Evolution as Lucian
- 2005 · Kingdom of Heaven as Priest
- 2004 · Laws of Attraction as Thorne Jamison
- 2003 · Timeline as Lord Oliver
- 2003 · Underworld as Lucian
- 2003 · Punk'd as Self
- 2002 · Top Gear as Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
- 1998 · Lost In France as Owen
- 1998 · Animated World Faiths as John (voice)
- 1997 · Wilde as Robbie Ross
- 1992 · Maigret as
- Future · A Very Royal Scandal as Prince Andrew
- 2024 · National Theatre Live: Nye as Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
- 2023 · Best Interests as Andrew
- 2022 · Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama as David Sherborne
- 2021 · Last Train to Christmas as Tony Towers
- 2020 · How to Build a Girl as Sigmund Freud
- 2020 · Good Omens: Lockdown as Aziraphale (voice)
- 2019 · Wales: Land of the Wild as Narrator
- 2017 · Brad's Status as Craig Fisher
- 2017 · Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special as Carl Flossy
- 2016 · Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously as Self
- 2016 · You Can Never Really Know Someone as Henry
- 2015 · 7 Days in Hell as Caspian Wint
- 2014 · Under Milk Wood as First Voice
- 2013 · Gogglebox as Self
- 2012 · Heroes and Demons as
- 2012 · Jesus Henry Christ as Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
- 2011 · Resistance as Tommy Atkins
- 2010 · The Special Relationship as Tony Blair
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2009 · The Damned United as Brian Clough
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2007 · Music Within as Art
- 2006 · Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! as Kenneth Williams
- 2006 · The Path to Redemption as Self
- 2005 · The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Jeremy
- 2005 · Dirty Filthy Love as Mark Furness
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Miles Maitland
- 2003 · The Deal as Tony Blair
- 2002 · The Four Feathers as William Trench
- 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Wiglaf ( voice )
- 1996 · Mary Reilly as Bradshaw
- 1995 · Othello as Lodovico
- 1993 · Gallowglass as Joe
- Future · The Price of Admission as Harold Sugar
- 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 as
- 2021 · Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Self
- 2021 · National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood as Owain Jenkins
- 2020 · Faith Healer as Francis Hardy
- 2019 · 7 Up & Me as Self
- 2018 · Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel as Narrator
- 2018 · To Provide All People as Porter
- 2016 · Aberfan: The Green Hollow as
- 2016 · Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town as Presenter - Narrator
- 2015 · A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Himself
- 2015 · Barbados as David
- 2015 · Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion as Self
- 2014 · War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime as Himself - Narrator
- 2013 · Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
- 2012 · The Gospel of Us as The Teacher
- 2011 · Installing the Cast as Self
- 2010 · My Last Five Girlfriends as No. 5 - Detective Burnam
- 2010 · Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
- 2009 · A Child's Christmases in Wales as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as Adam Banton
- 2006 · Dead Long Enough as Harry Jones
- 2004 · The Banker as The Banker
- 2003 · Heartlands as Colin
- Future · The Battle for Rome as Nero
- 2006 · HG Wells: War with the World as H.G. Wells
- 1999 · Doomwatch: Winter Angel as Angel
- Future · Heart of Darkness as (voice)
- 2004 · The Open Doors as Framton Nuttel