Michael Sheen
Birthday: 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
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Underworld
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The Queen
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Blood Diamond
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Kingdom of Heaven
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Underworld: Evolution
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Laws of Attraction
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Animated Epics: Beowulf
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TRON: Legacy
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The Damned United
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Last Train to Christmas
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Frost/Nixon
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Alice in Wonderland
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Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
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Timeline
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My Last Five Girlfriends
Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan – determined to find the secret to a healthy...
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Written in the Stars
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Music Within
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Bright Young Things
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The Deal
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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
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Unthinkable
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The Special Relationship
A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of ...
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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
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Cynefin
A moving short film featuring Michael Sheen to launch the name switch from Brecon Beacon’s National ...
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cull...
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HG Wells: War with the World
BBC docudrama telling the story of the father of science fiction, HG Wells, and his ambition to aver...
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Barbados
David (Michael Sheen) is a middle class guy with middle class problems, despite his lovely home and ...
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
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A Child's Christmases in Wales
One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s...
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Heartlands
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Midnight in Paris
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriou...
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Beautiful Boy
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Jesus Henry Christ
At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his fem...
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Resistance
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The Gospel of Us
Film version of the 72 hour Passion play performed in Port Talbot, Wales during Easter 2011...
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Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion
Actor Michael Sheen goes on a personal journey to explore the reasons for political disillusionment ...
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Admission
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Heroes and Demons
Gripping thriller drama with fantastic all-star cast: Six different stories about crooks, misfits, h...
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Installing the Cast
A pat-on-the-back featurette that looks at the work of the actors on TRON: Legacy....
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Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
A poetic documentary following the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s journey through Iran in 1951 on a film ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very differen...
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Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate....
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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
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Dead Long Enough
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Kill the Messenger
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af...
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Under Milk Wood
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's ra...
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7 Days in Hell
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a...
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Christmas with Katherine Jenkins
Welsh superstar and mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE returns home to Wales to celebrate Christmas...
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Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Public Service Broadcasting – a band who bring wit, invention and multimedia spectacle to the stage ...
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Mary Reilly
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde....
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Othello
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in th...
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The Four Feathers
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Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
Michael Sheen returns to the town he was brought up in to see for himself the impact hundreds of job...
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National Theatre Live: Nye
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Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
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Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter....
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Passengers
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunc...
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Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
The world’s funniest and most star-studded pantomime is back! Lily James heads the cast as famous na...
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The Banker
A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank....
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The Assembly
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a polit...
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Dirty Filthy Love
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Wilde
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A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
In this documentary, Stephen Fry tells the story behind his success, after presenting the BAFTAs for...
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You Can Never Really Know Someone
Witness a day in the life of Gretchen, a troubled woman on a quest for love....
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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its blood...
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense con...
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Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
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Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to re...
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Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
Almost 50 years after the film’s release, all the Overlook Hotel’s sets are thought to have been des...
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Nocturnal Animals
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tra...
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The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Described as a contemporary psychological thriller. Plot TBA....
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Aberfan: The Green Hollow
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and ...
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Brad's Status
Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, t...
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Home Again
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to mo...
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Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
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Apostle
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by ...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for ...
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Slaughterhouse Rulez
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appe...
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The Open Doors
The Open Doors is a short British film based on a short story 'The Open Window' by Saki (H. H. Munro...
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Dolittle
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterin...
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The Price of Admission
Harold Sugar is a middling playwright amidst a mid-life crisis and a failing marriage. Incapable of ...
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To Provide All People
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journ...
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7 Up & Me
In celebration of the release of 63 Up, the 2019 installment of Michael Apted's groundbreaking docum...
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How to Build a Girl
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talkin...
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Good Omens: Lockdown
Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the CO...
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Heart of Darkness
Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a ...
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Faith Healer
The Fantastic Francis Hardy travels the most remote corners of Wales, Scotland and Ireland attemptin...
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The Path to Redemption
From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kin...
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Doomwatch: Winter Angel
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Sov...
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Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
Tracks the evolution of the union between 2008 and 2024, a time that saw a failed strike authorizati...
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Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
Michael McIntyre celebrates 25 years of stand-up comedy with a special recording of Macnificent, his...
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Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
An uplifting and touching documentary special which tells the story of one of Britain's best loved s...
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Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway
In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of...
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Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System
'I felt so alone and lost.' That’s what Hope told actor Michael Sheen about her time in care. BBC Wa...
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The 12 Days of Christmas
A widower receives strange Christmas gifts from a mysterious stranger....
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Live a Little
An award-winning student short film shot on iPhone, reflecting the director’s experience in Rome. It...
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Michael Sheen Presents - You're The Boss
A hilarious look at the most entertaining football bosses of all time. Fresh from his critically acc...
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Few Options
When a convicted drug smuggler leaves prison after 22 years for one youthful mistake, he just wants ...
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Fortitude
Brilliant British Army officers Dudley Clarke and Thomas Argyll “Tar” Robertson deploy an elaborate ...
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius
The son of a Welsh miner, Richard Burton became a Hollywood star and is considered one of the greate...
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Top Gear: From A-Z
From A-Z incorporates a wealth of footage and incredible facts from the past 13 years of Top Gear. V...
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