Michael Sheen
Acting
Born February 5, 1969 · Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
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
Films (105)
Good Omens 3
2026
You Told Us To Talk About The Weather
2026
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway
2025
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
2025
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
2024
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
2024
National Theatre Live: Nye
2024
The Assembly
2024
Live a Little
2024
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins
2023
Cynefin
2023
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
2023
Written in the Stars
2023
Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
2022
Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System
2022
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2021
Last Train to Christmas
2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
How to Build a Girl
2020
Faith Healer
2020
Good Omens: Lockdown
2020
Dolittle
2020
7 Up & Me
2019
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel
2018
Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
Apostle
2018
To Provide All People
2018
Brad's Status
2017
Home Again
2017
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
2017
Passengers
2016
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
2016
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
You Can Never Really Know Someone
2016
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
2015
Top Gear: From A-Z
2015
Barbados
2015
7 Days in Hell
2015
Far from the Madding Crowd
2015
Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion
2015
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
2014
Kill the Messenger
2014
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
2014
Under Milk Wood
2014
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
Admission
2013
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Jesus Henry Christ
2012
The Gospel of Us
2012
Resistance
2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Few Options
2011
Beautiful Boy
2011
Midnight in Paris
2011
Heroes and Demons
2011
Installing the Cast
2011
TRON: Legacy
2010
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
2010
The Special Relationship
2010
Unthinkable
2010
My Last Five Girlfriends
2010
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Creating Clough
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
A Child's Christmases in Wales
2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
Michael Sheen Presents - You're The Boss
2009
The Damned United
2009
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
Frost/Nixon
2008
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
Music Within
2007
Blood Diamond
2006
Dead Long Enough
2006
HG Wells: War with the World
2006
The Queen
2006
The Path to Redemption
2006
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
2006
Underworld: Evolution
2006
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
Dirty Filthy Love
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
The Banker
2004
Laws of Attraction
2004
The Open Doors
2004
Timeline
2003
Bright Young Things
2003
The Deal
2003
Underworld
2003
Heartlands
2003
The Four Feathers
2002
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
1999
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
Wilde
1997
Mary Reilly
1996
Othello
1995