Michael Sheen
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
Movies (99)
Good Omens - Season 3: An Ineffable Goodbye
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
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
Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
Apostle
2018
Brad's Status
2017
Home Again
2017
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
2017
Passengers
2016
Nocturnal Animals
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
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
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
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
The Price of Admission
Heart of Darkness
TV Shows (54)
Train‑ing It with Joe Wilkinson
2026
The Celebrity Traitors
2025
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
The Way
2024
Best Interests
2023
Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama
2022
Fantasy Football League
2022
The Sandman
2022
Art That Made Us
2022
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020
Staged
2020
Quiz
2020
Prodigal Son
2019
Good Omens
2019
There's Something About Movies
2019
Wales: Land of the Wild
2019
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
The Good Fight
2017
Chelsea
2016
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
2016
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
A Life on Screen
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast
2014
The Spoils of Babylon
2014
Masters of Sex
2013
Gogglebox
2013
The Last Leg
2013
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
A League of Their Own
2010
Live from Studio Five
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
30 Rock
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
The One Show
2006
Doctor Who
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Punk'd
2003
Top Gear
2002
Lost In France
1998
Animated World Faiths
1998
The Grand
1997
Gallowglass
1993
Sean's Show
1992
Maigret
1992
Have I Got News for You
1990
The Simpsons
1989
