Michael Sheen
Born 1969
Known for Passengers, Good Omens, Underworld.
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
Movie Credits
Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway (2025)
National Theatre Live: Nye (2024)
City Rush 3 (2023)
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (2014)
Under Milk Wood (2014)
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
The Gospel of Us (2012)
The Special Relationship (2010)
The Damned United (2009)
Dead Long Enough (2006)
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006)
Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
Heartlands (2002)
Apostle (2018)
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (2016)
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Beautiful Boy (2011)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
The Queen (2006)
Dolittle (2020)
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
Passengers (2016)
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
Unthinkable (2010)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Music Within (2007)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Underworld (2003)
Brad's Status (2017)
7 Days in Hell (2015)
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry (2015)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
Bright Young Things (2003)
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
A Child's Christmases in Wales (2009)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Few Options (2011)
Resistance (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
The Four Feathers (2002)
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Wilde (1997)
Mary Reilly (1996)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Home Again (2017)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Othello (1995)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Timeline (2003)
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell (2025)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Admission (2013)
Heroes and Demons (2012)
How to Build a Girl (2020)
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
