Michael Sheen
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1969-02-05 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
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.
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Known For
Acting
Heart of Darkness
as (voice)
The Price of Admission
as Harold Sugar
The 12 Days of Christmas
as Henry Sullivan
(2025)
(2025)
(2024)
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
as Self - Audience Member
(2024)
The Assembly
as Self - Interviewed Guest
(2024)
National Theatre Live: Nye
as Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
(2024)
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
as Narrator
(2023)
(2023)
Written in the Stars
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
as Dylan Thomas (voice)
(2023)
Cynefin
as Self/Narrator
(2022)
(2022)
(2021)
Last Train to Christmas
as Tony Towers
(2021)
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Owain Jenkins
(2021)
(2020)
Dolittle
as Dr. Blair Müdfly
(2020)
How to Build a Girl
as Sigmund Freud
(2020)
Good Omens: Lockdown
as Aziraphale (voice)
(2020)
Faith Healer
as Francis Hardy
(2019)
7 Up & Me
as Self
(2018)
Apostle
as Malcolm Howe
(2018)
Slaughterhouse Rulez
as The Bat
(2018)
To Provide All People
as Porter
(2018)
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel
as Narrator
(2017)
Home Again
as Austen Bloom
(2017)
Brad's Status
as Craig Fisher
(2017)
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
as Carl Flossy
(2017)
(2016)
Nocturnal Animals
as Carlos Holt
(2016)
Passengers
as Arthur
(2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
as Presenter - Narrator
(2015)
Far from the Madding Crowd
as William Boldwood
(2015)
7 Days in Hell
as Caspian Wint
(2015)
Barbados
as David
(2015)
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
as Himself
(2015)
(2014)
Kill the Messenger
as Fred Weil
(2014)
Under Milk Wood
as First Voice
(2014)
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
as Himself - Narrator
(2014)
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
Admission
as Mark
(2013)
(2013)
(2012)
(2012)
Jesus Henry Christ
as Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
(2012)
The Gospel of Us
as The Teacher
(2011)
(2011)
Midnight in Paris
as Paul
(2011)
Beautiful Boy
as Bill Carroll
(2011)
Resistance
as Tommy Atkins
(2011)
(2011)
Installing the Cast
as Self
(2010)
Alice in Wonderland
as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
(2010)
TRON: Legacy
as Castor / Zuse
(2010)
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
as Dr. Griffiths (voice)
(2010)
Unthinkable
as Steven Arthur Younger
(2010)
The Special Relationship
as Tony Blair
(2010)
My Last Five Girlfriends
as No. 5 - Detective Burnam
(2010)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
(2009)
(2009)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
as Lucian
(2009)
The Damned United
as Brian Clough
(2009)
A Child's Christmases in Wales
as Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Frost/Nixon
as David Frost
(2007)
Music Within
as Art
(2007)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
(2007)
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
as Adam Banton
(2006)
Blood Diamond
as Simmons
(2006)
Underworld: Evolution
as Lucian
(2006)
The Queen
as Tony Blair
(2006)
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
as Kenneth Williams
(2006)
HG Wells: War with the World
as H.G. Wells
(2006)
The Path to Redemption
as Self
(2006)
Dead Long Enough
as Harry Jones
(2005)
Kingdom of Heaven
as Priest
(2005)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Jeremy
(2005)
Dirty Filthy Love
as Mark Furness
(2004)
Laws of Attraction
as Thorne Jamison
(2004)
The Banker
as The Banker
(2004)
The Open Doors
as Framton Nuttel
(2003)
Underworld
as Lucian
(2003)
Timeline
as Lord Oliver
(2003)
Bright Young Things
as Miles Maitland
(2003)
The Deal
as Tony Blair
(2003)
Heartlands
as Colin
(2002)
The Four Feathers
as William Trench
(1999)
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
as Angel
(1998)
Animated Epics: Beowulf
as Wiglaf ( voice )
(1997)
Wilde
as Robbie Ross
(1996)
Mary Reilly
as Bradshaw
(1995)
Othello
as Lodovico
Crew
(2025)