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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Filmography
all 138
Movies 91
TV Shows 47
self 34
Voice 9
Narrator 5
National Theatre Live: Nye (2024)
The Way (2024)
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins (2023)
Best Interests (2023)
Cynefin (2023)
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (2023)
Written in the Stars (2023)
Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama (2022)
Fantasy Football League (2022)
Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2022)
The Sandman (2022)
Art That Made Us (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)
Staged (2020)
Good Omens: Lockdown (2020)
Quiz (2020)
Dolittle (2020)
Prodigal Son (2019)
7 Up & Me (2019)
Good Omens (2019)
There's Something About Movies (2019)
Wales: Land of the Wild (2019)
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel (2018)
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
Apostle (2018)
To Provide All People (2018)
Brad's Status (2017)
Home Again (2017)
Carpool Karaoke: The Series (2017)
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks (2017)
The Good Fight (2017)
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
Passengers (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (2016)
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town (2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Chelsea (2016)
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
You Can Never Really Know Someone (2016)
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016)
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry (2015)
Barbados (2015)
7 Days in Hell (2015)
The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion (2015)
A Life on Screen (2014)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme (2014)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (2014)
Under Milk Wood (2014)
Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast (2014)
The Spoils of Babylon (2014)
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (2013)
Masters of Sex (2013)
Admission (2013)
Gogglebox (2013)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)
Heroes and Demons (2012)
Jamie and Jimmy's Food Fight Club (2012)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Comedy Bang! Bang! (2012)
Jesus Henry Christ (2012)
The Gospel of Us (2012)
Resistance (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
Beautiful Boy (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Installing the Cast (2011)
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
Unthinkable (2010)
The Special Relationship (2010)
My Last Five Girlfriends (2010)
A League of Their Own (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
A Child's Christmases in Wales (2009)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Live from Studio Five (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)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Music Within (2007)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Dead Long Enough (2006)
30 Rock (2006)
HG Wells: War with the World (2006)
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)
The Queen (2006)
The One Show (2006)
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
The Path to Redemption (2006)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
Dirty Filthy Love (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Doctor Who (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (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)
Punk'd (2003)
Top Gear (2002)
The Four Feathers (2002)
Doomwatch: Winter Angel (1999)
Lost In France (1998)
Animated World Faiths (1998)
Animated Epics: Beowulf (1998)
Wilde (1997)
The Grand (1997)
Mary Reilly (1996)
Othello (1995)
Gallowglass (1993)
Maigret (1992)
The Simpsons (1989)
A Very Royal Scandal
Heart of Darkness
The Price of Admission
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
The Battle for Rome
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1969-02-05 (55 years old)
Birth NameMichael Christopher Sheen
Birth PlaceNewport, United Kingdom
RelationshipsSarah Silverman (2014-01-01 - 2018-01-01), Kate Beckinsale (1995-01-01 - 2003-01-01), Rachel McAdams (2010-01-01 - 2013-01-01)
ChildrenLily Mo Sheen
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, Wales
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
Also Known AsMichael Christopher Sheen, Майкл Шин, Μάικλ Σιν, 米高·辛, 마이클 신, マイケル・シーン, மைக்கேல் ஷீன், ਮਾਈਕਲ ਸ਼ੀਨ, მაიკლ შინი, Մայքլ Շին, מייקל שין, مایکل شین, Майкъл Шийн, مايكل شين
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, James Joyce Award, James Joyce Awards
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