Michael Sheen
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
167 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 167
The Simpsons
1989
Doctor Who
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Top Gear
2002
30 Rock
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The One Show
2006
The Good Fight
2017
Masters of Sex
2013
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Sandman
2022
Good Omens
2019
Have I Got News for You
1990
The Last Leg
2013
Punk'd
2003
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
—
Chelsea
2016
Prodigal Son
2019
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
A League of Their Own
2010
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020
TRON: Legacy
2010
Blood Diamond
2006
Staged
2020
Dolittle
2020
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
Passengers
2016
Underworld
2003
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016
Maigret
1992
Underworld: Evolution
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
2010
Unthinkable
2010
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Midnight in Paris
2011
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
The Way
2024
The Grand
1997
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
2016
Wilde
1997
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
Quiz
2020
The Four Feathers
2002
Gogglebox
2013
Far from the Madding Crowd
2015
Timeline
2003
The Queen
2006
Apostle
2018
Fantasy Football League
2022
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
The Spoils of Babylon
2014
The Celebrity Traitors
2025
Frost/Nixon
2008
Best Interests
2023
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
A Life on Screen
2014
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
2017
Home Again
2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Art That Made Us
2022
Kill the Messenger
2014
Mary Reilly
1996
Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
2013
Gallowglass
1993
Laws of Attraction
2004
Bright Young Things
2003
Brad's Status
2017
Admission
2013
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2021
The Damned United
2009
Animated World Faiths
1998
7 Days in Hell
2015
There's Something About Movies
2019
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
2025
Beautiful Boy
2011
How to Build a Girl
2020
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast
2014
Lost In France
1998
Othello
1995
Heroes and Demons
2012
Live from Studio Five
2009
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
2016
Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama
2022
Jesus Henry Christ
2012
The Deal
2003
Sean's Show
1992
Resistance
2011
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Under Milk Wood
2014
Last Train to Christmas
2021
Heart of Darkness
—
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
Music Within
2007
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
—
The Path to Redemption
2006
The Special Relationship
2010
Wales: Land of the Wild
2019
My Last Five Girlfriends
2010
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
Heartlands
2003
Few Options
2011
Train‑ing It with Joe Wilkinson
2026
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
2024
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
Dirty Filthy Love
2005
To Provide All People
2018
Installing the Cast
2011
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
2006
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
National Theatre Live: Nye
2024
Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway
2025
Fortitude
—
You Can Never Really Know Someone
2016
7 Up & Me
2019
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
2015
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
1999
The Open Doors
2004
Barbados
2015
Good Omens: The Finale
—
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
—
HG Wells: War with the World
2006
The Price of Admission
—
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
2014
A Child's Christmases in Wales
2009
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Good Omens: Lockdown
2020
The Battle for Rome
—
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
2014
The Gospel of Us
2012
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
2024
Written in the Stars
2023
The Assembly
2024
The 12 Days of Christmas
—
The Banker
2004
Creating Clough
2010
Faith Healer
2020
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins
2023
Good Omens - Season 3: An Ineffable Goodbye
2026
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
2023
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
2016
Good Omens Finale
—
Cynefin
2023
Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
2022
Michael Sheen Presents - You're The Boss
2009
Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion
2015
Buried
2026
Top Gear: From A-Z
2015
You Told Us To Talk About The Weather
2026
Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System
2022
Dead Long Enough
2006
Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel
2018