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Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen

Birthday: 1969-02-05 | Place of Birth: 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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Last Train to Christmas

as    Tony Towers

2020
Quiz

as    Chris Tarrant

2020
Dolittle

as    Dr. Blair Müdfly

2020
The Sandman

as    Lucifer

2020
Staged

as    Michael

2019
Good Omens

as    Aziraphale

2019
Prodigal Son

as    Dr. Martin Whitly

2018
Apostle

as    Malcolm Howe

2018
Slaughterhouse Rulez

as    The Bat

2017
Home Again

as    Austen Bloom

2017
Brad's Status

as    Craig Fisher

2016
Passengers

as    Arthur

2016
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as    White Rabbit (voice)

2015
7 Days in Hell

as    Caspian Wint

2015
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

as    Himself

2015
The Spoils Before Dying

as    Kenton Price

2015
Far from the Madding Crowd

as    William Boldwood

2014
The Spoils of Babylon

as    Chet Halner

2014
The Spoils of Babylon

as    Chet Halner

2014
Kill the Messenger

as    Fred Weil

2013
Masters of Sex

as    William Masters

2012
Jesus Henry Christ

as    Dr. Slavkin O'Hara