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Michael Sheen

January 26, 2023

Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969)[1] is a Welsh actor, television producer and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles 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.

Michael Sheen
Sheen at the 2018 New York Comic Con
Born
Michael Christopher Sheen

(1969-02-05) 5 February 1969 (age 53)
Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
Education
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actor
  • television producer
Years active1991–present
Partners
Children3
Sheen's voice
recorded December 2018

Sheen has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s, in particular through his roles in various biographical films.[2] For writer Peter Morgan, he starred in a trilogy of films as UK prime minister Tony Blair—the television film The Deal in 2003, The Queen (2006), and The Special Relationship (2010)—earning him nominations 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, a role he revisited in the 2008 film adaptation of the play. He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United (2009).

Since 2009, Sheen had a wider variety of roles. In 2009, he appeared in two fantasy films, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and in 2010, he made a four-episode guest appearance in the NBC comedy 30 Rock. He appeared in the science-fiction film Tron: Legacy (2010) and Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011). He directed and starred in National Theatre Wales's The Passion.[3][4] From late 2011 until early 2012, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Young Vic. He 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.

Sheen played an incarcerated serial killer surgeon in Fox's drama series Prodigal Son (2019–2021), Aziraphale in the BBC/Amazon Studios fantasy comedy series Good Omens (2019–present), and appeared as Chris Tarrant in Quiz (2020). He played himself in the quarantine comedy show Staged (2020–2022) with Good Omens co-star David Tennant throughout the COVID-19 lockdown.

Sheen is politically engaged, and in 2017 he returned his OBE after conducting research on Wales's relationship with England.

Early life

Sheen was born on 5 February 1969 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,[5] the son of Irene, a secretary, and Meyrick, a British Steel Corporation personnel manager.[6] He has one younger sister, Joanne.[6] The family lived in Llanmartin, near Newport, for 12 years.[7] When he was five, the family moved to Wallasey for work,[8] but settled in his parents' home town of Port Talbot, Glamorgan, three years later.[9][10]

Director Sam Mendes has described Sheen as "a stage creature" and attributed that to the actor's Welsh roots: "I'm serious. He's Welsh in the tradition of Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton: fiery, mercurial, unpredictable."[11] A keen footballer, Sheen was scouted and offered a place on Arsenal's youth team at the age of 12, but his family was unwilling to relocate to London. He later said he was "grateful" for his parents' decision, as the chances of forging a professional football career were "so slim".[12]

Sheen was raised in a theatrical family, his parents both being involved in local amateur operatics and musicals[13] and, later in life, his father worked as a part-time professional Jack Nicholson lookalike.[14] In his teenage years, Sheen was involved with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and, later, the National Youth Theatre of Wales.[13][15] "It was a brilliant youth theatre", Sheen has said, "and it taught me not only a lot about acting, but also about work ethic; it was very disciplined."[16] He was influenced by the performances of Laurence Olivier and the writings of theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, saying "the combination of those two things kind of blew my head off."[17][18] Sheen was educated at Blaenbaglan Primary School, Glan Afan Comprehensive School and, finally, Neath Port Talbot College where he sat A-levels in English, Drama and Sociology.[6] He considered studying English at university but instead decided to attend drama school.[13] He moved to London in 1988 to train as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA),[13] having spent the previous year working in a Welsh fast-food restaurant called Burger Master to earn money.[6] Sheen was granted the Laurence Olivier Bursary by the Society of London Theatre in his second year at RADA.[19][20] He graduated in 1991 with a BA in Acting.[6]

Career

Classical stage roles (1991–2001)

Sheen worked predominantly in theatre in the 1990s and has since remarked that he will always feel "slightly more at home" on stage. "It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you."[21] His first professional role, while still in his third and final year at RADA, was in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991.[22] He later described the role as "a big break. One day, I was at RADA doing a movement class, the next I was at a read-through with Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour."[23] Milton Shulman of the Evening Standard praised an "excellent" performance[24] while The Observer wrote of "a notable West End debut".[25] In 1992, Sheen's performance in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange received a MEN Theatre Award nomination[26] and led theatre critic Michael Coveney to declare him "the most exciting young actor of his generation ... a volatile, electrifying and technically fearless performer".[14][27] His 1993 turn as Perdican in Alfred de Musset's Don't Fool With Love at the Donmar Warehouse was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award.[28][29] and was described by The Independent as "quite thrilling".[30] Also in 1993, Sheen appeared in the world premiere of Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre[31] and made his television debut in the 1993 BBC mini-series Gallowglass.[32]

Sheen played the title role in Peer Gynt in 1994. The Yukio Ninagawa production was staged in Oslo, Tokyo and at the Barbican Centre, London. The Times praised Sheen's "astonishing vitality"[33] while The Independent found him "sensationally good" and noted that "the Norwegian press were grudgingly captivated by the mercurial Welsh boyo".[34] In other 1994 work, Sheen appeared in Le Livre de Spencer at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris[35] and starred in the cross-dressing farce Charley's Aunt at the Royal Exchange.[36] In 1995, he appeared opposite Kate Beckinsale in a production of The Seagull at the Theatre Royal, Bath[37] and, with the encouragement of Thelma Holt,[38] directed and starred in The Dresser at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. In addition, Sheen made his film debut that year, appearing opposite Kenneth Branagh in Othello.[39] 1996 saw Sheen at the National Theatre for The Ends of the Earth, an original play by David Lan.[40] A minor role in Mary Reilly marked the first of three film collaborations with director Stephen Frears.[41] Sheen's most significant appearance of 1997 was the title role in Henry V, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at their Stratford-upon-Avon theatre, which earned him a second Ian Charleson Award nomination.[42] The Times praised "a blisteringly intelligent performance".[43] Also in 1997, he appeared in a revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the National Theatre, directed by Roger Michell,[44] and directed Badfinger, starring Rhys Ifans, at the Donmar Warehouse.[45][46][47] The latter was staged by the Thin Language Theatre Company, which Sheen had co-founded in 1991, aiming to further Welsh theatre.[38][48] He then appeared in the biographical film Wilde, playing Robbie Ross to Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.[49] In early 1998 Sheen formed a production company, The Foundry, with Helen McCrory and Robert Delamere to promote the work of emerging playwrights,[48] and produced A Little World of Our Own at the Donmar Warehouse, which gave Colin Farrell his West End debut.[50]

 
The Old Vic, where Sheen starred in a successful revival of Amadeus in 1998. The play later transferred to Broadway.

From 1998 to 1999, Sheen starred as Mozart in a successful revival of Amadeus.[51] The Peter Hall-directed production was staged at the Old Vic, London, and later transferred to the Music Box on Broadway. Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, was particularly vocal in his praise. He noted that "Mr. Sheen elicits a real poetry from the role" and felt that, while watching him, "you start to appreciate the derivation of the term star. This actor is so luminous it's scary!"[52] The Independent found him "quite stunning as Mozart. His fantastically physical performance convinces you of his character's genius and the play catches fire whenever he's on stage."[53] Sheen was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor.[28][54][55] In 1999, Sheen explored the role of Jimmy Porter in the National Theatre's production of Look Back in Anger. In 2003, Sheen described the production as "the most enjoyable thing I've ever done ... everything came together".[56] "Sheen has cornered the market in explosive energy", said The Independent, "but this thrilling performance is his finest yet."[57] The Financial Times noted: "As Jimmy Porter, a role of staggering difficulty in every way, Michael Sheen gives surely the best performance London has yet seen from him ... You hang on every word he utters ... This is a dazzlingly through-the-body performance."[58] He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.[59]

The Deal, The Queen, and Fantabulosa (2002–2006)

At this point in his career, Sheen began to devote more time to film work.[60] Heartlands, a little-seen 2002 film about a naive man's road trip in the Midlands, was his first leading film role.[61] While The Guardian dismissed the "cloying bittersweet-regional-lottery-Britfilm", it noted that "Sheen himself has a childlike, Frank Spencer-ish charm".[62] "It was great to do something that was so different", Sheen has said of the role. "I usually play very extreme characters."[63] Also in 2002, he had a minor role in the action-adventure film The Four Feathers.[64] In 2003, Sheen appeared in Bright Young Things, the directorial debut of his Wilde co-star, Stephen Fry. An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, the film followed high society partygoers in decadent, pre-war London. Sheen played a gay aristocrat in an ensemble cast which included James McAvoy, Emily Mortimer, David Tennant, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent and Peter O'Toole. While the Los Angeles Times said he "shone",[65] The Guardian felt the role "drastically under-uses his talents".[66] Sheen described his character as "possibly the campest man in cinema history" and relished a scene "where I do drugs with [a then 95-year-old] Sir John Mills."[67] In other 2003 film work, Sheen portrayed the werewolf leader Lucian in Underworld[68] and made a brief appearance in the sci-fi film Timeline.[69]

Sheen returned to the stage in 2003 to play the title role in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Michael Grandage. It was the first of just three stage appearances during the 2000s; his young daughter was now based in Los Angeles which made more frequent stage runs in Britain impractical.[70] The Independent's critic declared it "one of the most thrilling and searching performances I have ever witnessed"[71] and The Daily Telegraph described him as an "outrageously charismatic actor" with "an astonishing physical presence".[72] The Times praised a "riveting performance"[73] and The Guardian found him "highly impressive ... at one point he attacks his court poet with a single hair-raising leap across a chair and table".[74] Sheen won an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and was again nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.[75][76]

Sheen's breakthrough role was as British politician Tony Blair in 2003's The Deal. The Channel 4 film explored the so-called Granita pact made by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown prior to the 1994 Labour Party leadership election, and was the actor's first collaboration with screenwriter Peter Morgan. Director Stephen Frears cast him because "he was in Mary Reilly and I knew he was brilliant."[77] Filmed while he was playing Caligula nightly on stage, Sheen has remarked, "It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play, you often end up playing leaders."[78] The Daily Telegraph praised his "earnest, yet steely, portrayal"[79] while The Guardian found him "excellent. This is intelligent and honest casting."[80] In 2004, Sheen starred in ITV's Dirty Filthy Love, a comic film about a man dealing with OCD and Tourette's after a marital separation. Sheen spoke of "treading a fine line" because "a lot of the symptoms are intrinsically comical".[75] He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Television Actor and a RTS Best Actor Award.[81][82] Also in 2004, Sheen played a pompous rock star in the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction[83] and produced and starred in The Banker, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[84][85]

In 2005, Sheen starred in the National Theatre's production of The UN Inspector, a David Farr adaptation of The Government Inspector. The Times wrote of "a scathingly brilliant and inventive performance"[86] while Variety noted that the actor "adds comic finesse to his apparently ceaseless repertoire".[87] The Evening Standard, while conceding that the performance was "technically brilliant", expressed bemusement as to why "one of the most mercurial and inspiring actors we have seems set on impersonating Rik Mayall throughout".[88] Also that year, he took part in the Old Vic's 24 Hour Play,[89] in which The Daily Telegraph felt he "dazzled".[90] In 2005 film work, Sheen starred in Dead Long Enough, a small-budget Welsh/Irish film, with his longtime friend, Jason Hughes.[91][92] In addition, he had a supporting role in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven,[93] made a cameo appearance in The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse[94] and starred in the short film The Open Doors.[95]

Sheen came to international attention in 2006 for his portrayal of Tony Blair in The Queen. The film focused on the differing reactions of the British Royal Family and the newly appointed Prime Minister following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997; it was Sheen's third collaboration with director Stephen Frears and his second with screenwriter Peter Morgan. He enjoyed reprising his role because Blair, at this point in his career, had "a weight to him that he didn't have before".[18] When asked to discuss his personal opinion of Blair, Sheen admitted that the more time he spent working on the character, the "less opinion" he has of the politician: "Now when I watch him on TV or hear his voice, it's sort of like a cross between a family member, a friend and seeing a really old embarrassing video of yourself."[96] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised "a sensational performance, alert and nuanced"[97] while Empire spoke of an "uncanny, insightful performance".[98] Sheen was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[99] His second film appearance of 2006 was a supporting role in Blood Diamond as an unscrupulous diamond dealer.[100] Also in 2006, Sheen starred as the troubled English comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's Fantabulosa! In preparation for the role, he lost two and a half stone (approx. 35 lbs), studied archival footage and read Williams' published diaries.[18] Sheen has said he is "fascinated by finding the private side of the public face".[101] The Times found his performance "mesmerising"[102] while The Observer described it as "a characterisation for which the description tour-de-force is, frankly, pretty faint praise".[103] He won a RTS Award for Best Actor,[104] and received his second BAFTA nomination of 2006, for Best Television Actor.[105] Sheen starred in two other BBC television productions in 2006, playing H. G. Wells in H. G. Wells: War with the World[106] and Nero in Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.[107]

Frost/Nixon and The Damned United (2007–2009)

From 2006 to 2007, Sheen starred as the television broadcaster David Frost in Frost/Nixon at both the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London and at the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. The play, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage and co-starring Frank Langella, was a critical and commercial success[108] but Sheen initially accepted the role as a favour to his friends and "never thought it was going anywhere".[109] The Guardian said the actor "exactly captures Frost's verbal tics and mannerisms while suggesting a nervousness behind the self-assurance".[110] "He's got the voice, the mannerisms, the blaze," said the Financial Times, "but, more than that, Sheen – as viscerally exciting an actor as any in Britain today – shows us the hunger of Frost's ambition .. and fox-like instinct for the hunt and the kill."[111] Sheen was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.[112][113] Sheen next appeared in the 2007 film Music Within as a political activist with cerebral palsy. He spoke of having a "responsibility" to accurately portray the condition.[114] Variety said his performance was "remarkable.. utterly convincing",[115] USA Today found him "outstanding"[116] while the Los Angeles Times felt he was "reminiscent of Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, bringing a vibrancy and wit to the role".[117] Also that year, Sheen starred in the short film Airlock, or How To Say Goodbye in Space with Derek Jacobi[118] and was invited to join the actors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.[119]

Sheen reprised the role of David Frost in 2008's Frost/Nixon, a film dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews of 1977. Despite appearing in the original stage production in a part written for him by Peter Morgan, Sheen was surprised to have been cast in the film: "Peter said he'd only be prepared to give the rights to someone who would cast me as Frost, which was very nice, but when the studios get their hands on something... Right up until we started filming I was prepared to be disappointed".[120] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a "compelling, intense" performance[121] while The Wall Street Journal felt he was "a brilliant actor" who "grows his character from a bright-eyed social butterfly to a gimlet-eyed interrogator".[122] However, The New York Times felt "the likable, watchable Mr. Sheen has been pitted against a scene-stealer" in Frank Langella's Nixon.[123] Frost himself later said it was "a wonderful performance".[124] Sheen was the recipient of the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2008.,[125] while Langella was nominated for an Academy Award.

 
Sheen at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. He was invited to join the actors' branch of the Academy in 2007.

In 2009, portrayed another public figure; he starred in The Damned United as the outspoken football manager Brian Clough. The Tom Hooper-directed film focused on Clough's disastrous 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United and marked Sheen's fifth collaboration with writer Peter Morgan. He said Clough is the real-life character he enjoyed playing most.[126] The Guardian, writing in 2009, declared it the "best performance of his big-screen career"[127] while The Times found him "magnificent".[128] Entertainment Weekly asserted that, despite American audiences' unfamiliarity with Clough, "what's lost in translation is recovered easily enough in Michael Sheen's astonishing performance".[129] Variety noted that his "typically scrupulous channelling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right, but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth".[130] Also in 2009, Sheen reprised his role as a werewolf in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, a prequel to the original film. Of his decision to take part, Sheen has said: "My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself."[131] The New York Times felt he was "the movie's greatest asset ... [taking] a lively break from his usual high-crust duties to bring wit, actual acting and some unexpected musculature to the goth-horror flick".[132] Variety said he hit "all the right notes in a star-powered performance that will amuse, if not amaze, anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost"[133] while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he "tries bravely to keep a straight face"[134]

Sheen had a supporting role in 2009's The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the highly popular vampire series.[135] In its review, Rolling Stone said: "Late in the film, a real actor, Michael Sheen, shows up as the mind-reading Aro, of the Italian Volturi vampires, and sparks things up. You can almost hear the young cast thinking, 'Is that acting? It looks hard.' So Sheen is quickly ushered out."[136] While The New York Times said he "preens with plausible menace",[137] USA Today felt he "plays the character with more high-pitched giddiness than menace".[138] He was named Actor of the Year at GQ magazine's annual Men of the Year ceremony.[139] Sheen made two one-off stage appearances in 2009; he performed a scene from Betrayal as part of a Harold Pinter tribute evening at the National Theatre[140] and performed improvisational comedy as part of The Groundlings' Crazy Joe Show in Los Angeles.[141]

Hamlet and Masters of Sex (2010–2018)

In 2010, Sheen had a supporting role in the science fiction sequel Tron: Legacy. Referring to his David Bowie-esque character, Sheen has said, "I was paid to show off basically".[101] The Wall Street Journal found little fun in the movie "except for a gleefully campy turn by Michael Sheen"[142] while The New York Times said he "shows up to deliver the closest thing to a performance in the movie".[143] The Daily Telegraph felt his "lively hamming as a cane-swishing nightclub owner merely underlines how impersonal—how inhuman—much else here is".[144] However, USA Today felt his "scenery-chewing performance ... is meant as comic relief, but this movie thunders along so seriously that the attempt at humor feels jarring".[145] In other 2010 film work, Sheen voiced Nivens McTwisp, the White Rabbit, in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland[146] and Dr. Griffiths in Disney's Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue[147] and appeared as a terrorist in Unthinkable.[148] On television, Sheen's performance in the third instalment of Peter Morgan's Blair trilogy, The Special Relationship, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or Movie.[149] The HBO film examined the "special relationship" between the US and the UK in the political era of Blair and Bill Clinton. It was the sixth collaboration between Sheen and Peter Morgan; both parties have since said they will not work together again "for the foreseeable future".[23][150] Sheen also made a guest appearance in four episodes of NBC's 30 Rock as Wesley Snipes, a love interest for Tina Fey's Liz Lemon. Fey, the sitcom's star and creator, has said that "he was so funny and delightful to work with".[151][152] In November 2010, Sheen received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.[153]

 
Sheen at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con

In 2011, Sheen starred in and was creative director of National Theatre Wales's The Passion, a 72-hour secular passion play staged in his hometown of Port Talbot, Wales.[154] In addition to a professional cast, over one thousand local amateurs took part in the performance and as many more volunteers from local charity and community groups were involved in preparations in the months leading up to the play.[155][156] The event was the subject of both a BBC documentary and The Gospel of Us, a film by director Dave McKean.[157][158] Sheen has described it as "the most meaningful experience" of his career.[159] The Observer declared it "one of the outstanding theatrical events not only of this year, but of the decade".[160] The Independent's critic described it as "the most extraordinary piece of community-specific theatre I've ever beheld".[161] While The Daily Telegraph bemoaned the large-scale production's logistical problems, "overall I found it touching, transformative and, in its own wayward way, a triumph."[162] The Guardian felt it was "so much more than just an epic piece of street theatre..transforming and uplifting".[163] Sheen and co-director Bill Mitchell were jointly honoured as Best Director at the Theatre Awards UK 2011.[164] In 2013, Sheen was nominated for a Best Actor Welsh BAFTA for The Gospel of Us.[165]

Sheen's most notable film appearance of 2011 was a supporting role in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.[166] Allen noted that "Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual, the pedant, and he came in and nailed it from the start".[167] Sheen enjoyed playing "someone who's just absolutely got no sense that he's overstepping the mark or that he's being a bore."[168] The film opened the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and became Allen's highest-grossing film to date.[169] Also in 2011, Sheen starred in Beautiful Boy, an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting,[170] voiced the enigmatic and mysterious villain House in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife" written by his friend Neil Gaiman[171] and made cameo appearances in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1[172] and Resistance.[173] In 2012 film work, Sheen starred opposite Toni Collette in the independent comedy Jesus Henry Christ[174] and reprised his role as the vampire Aro in the final instalment of The Twilight Saga.[175][176]

Sheen played the title role in Hamlet at the Young Vic in late 2011 and early 2012,[177] a role he first explored in a 1999 BBC Radio 3 production.[178] While there had been tentative plans over the years for both Peter Hall and Michael Grandage to direct Sheen in the play,[179][180][181] he eventually asked Ian Rickson.[140] Rickson's production was set in the secure wing of a psychiatric hospital and featured original music by PJ Harvey.[182] The Evening Standard declared Sheen's performance "an audacious achievement" that "will live in the memory"[183] while The Independent praised "a recklessly brilliant and bravura performance."[184] The Daily Telegraph felt that Sheen "could be right up there among the great Hamlets",[185] were it not for Rickson's "mindlessly modish" staging, while The Times found him "unbearably moving".[186][187] The Guardian described him as "fascinating to watch ... intelligent, inventive and full of insights ... [he] delivers the "What a piece of work is a man" passage with a beautiful consciousness of human potential."[188] The Observer declared him an actor "always worth crossing a principality to see and hear" whose "'To be, or not to be' is a marvel."[189]

In 2013, Sheen appeared in a supporting role as the boyfriend of Tina Fey in the comedy Admission, with Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice describing the character as "a whiskery, elfin academic who chuckles to himself as he reads the Canterbury Tales prologue aloud in bed, in Middle English, no less. (Sheen is scarily good at this.)"[190] In 2014, he starred in the fantasy children's film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box.[191] R. Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine said "the ever-versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role"[192] but Matt Pais of RedEye found him "insufficiently zany" in "a part that Robert Downey Jr. would nail but never accept."[193] His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller Kill the Messenger.[194] Also in 2014, he starred in IFC's six-episode The Spoils of Babylon, a television parody of classic, sweeping miniseries, in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig's character.[195]

In 2015, Sheen starred opposite Carey Mulligan in the romantic drama Far from the Madding Crowd as prosperous bachelor William Boldwood. His performance was well received.[196][197][198] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker remarked: "How you prevent such a fellow, crushed by his own decency, from sagging into a bearded Ashley Wilkes is no easy task, yet Sheen succeeds, and Boldwood's brave smile grows dreadful to behold."[199] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club found the character "pitiful, and sometimes downright painful to watch. He's not Hardy's Boldwood, but he's a Boldwood. The only sad, genuine moment of the film belongs to him."[200] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian remarked that Sheen's face "is etched with agony and an awful kind of abject adoration, forever trying to find ways to forgive the loved one in advance for rejection. When Sheen's Boldwood confides to Oak that he feels "grief" you really can feel his pain."[201] Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice also referred to the scene where Boldwood expressed his grief, commenting: "Sheen's performance is fine-grained, and the pure Englishness of his understatement is heartrending."[202] Also in 2015, Sheen had well-received comedic television performances in Comedy Bang! Bang!,[203][204] The Spoils Before Dying[205][206][207][208] and 7 Days in Hell.[209] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times said his television host in 7 Days in Hell was "played with damp lechery and cigarette-ash mastery."[210] Liz Shannon Miller of Indiewire said he may have "stolen the show"[211] while John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter described him as the "scene-stealer of the bunch".[212]

Sheen presenting the St David Awards, Cardiff in 2015

Between 2013 and 2016, Sheen starred in and produced Showtime's Masters of Sex.[213] He and Lizzy Caplan portrayed the 1960s human sexuality pioneers Masters and Johnson; the series chronicled "their unusual lives, romance and pop culture trajectory, which saw them go from a Midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and Johnny Carson's couch".[214][215] David Sims of The Atlantic described Sheen's portrayal of Masters as "an intensely honest and unsympathetic one"[216] while Sonia Saraiya of The A.V. Club said Sheen played the role "so seamlessly it's hard to remember that there's a British actor there who has played flamboyant news personalities and prime ministers."[217] Sean T. Collins of The Observer described Masters as "a singularly unappealing figure": "It's not that Michael Sheen is bad in the role. On the contrary! Sheen's skill in playing Masters as an asshole who oscillates between headache-inducing self-repression and volcanic rage renders him unpleasant to spend more than two minutes with at a time."[218] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter remarked: "Masters has never been very likable. In fact, it's a testament to Sheen's performance— and Caplan's nuanced Johnson offsetting Masters—that anyone still cares what happens to Masters on a personal level."[219] He received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in late 2013.[220][221]

In 2016, Sheen had supporting roles in the dramas Nocturnal Animals[222] and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,[223] and the science fiction romance Passengers.[224] He also reprised his role as the White Rabbit in the fantasy adventure Alice Through the Looking Glass.[225] In 2017, he had supporting roles in the dramatic comedies Brad's Status[226] and Home Again.[227] In 2018, Sheen was cast as unconventional lawyer Roland Blum in season 3 of television series The Good Fight.[228]

Good Omens and Staged (2019–present)

In May 2019 Sheen starred alongside David Tennant in Good Omens, based on the novel of the same name written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and was cast as Chris Tarrant in the TV adaptation of James Graham's stage play Quiz.[229] In September 2019, Sheen began playing the role of Martin Whitly in the American television series Prodigal Son on Fox.[230][231] In April 2020, Quiz was shown on ITV. On 14 April, when the channel broadcast the second instalment, the continuity announcer introduced him as "Martin Sheen", a different actor. Sheen reacted to this by changing his Twitter handle to "Martin Sheen".[232] In June 2020, Sheen starred alongside David Tennant again in a six-part television lockdown comedy entitled Staged, which was made using video-conferencing software.[233] A second eight-episode series started airing in January 2021.[234] In June 2021, Sheen returned to the London stage, after its protracted period of Covid-19 shutdown, in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre. A new production of Amadeus, scheduled for December 2022 at the Sydney Opera House, was announced in July 2022 with Sheen as Salieri.[235] Continuing Sheen's professional partnership with Tennant, a third six-episode series of Staged aired in its entirely on 14 November 2022,[236][237] while a second six-episode series of Good Omens will premiere in 2023.[238]

Charity work

Sheen is the honorary President of Wales Council for Voluntary Action, the lead national body for the voluntary sector in Wales. Accepting the role he explained "I plan to use my role to actively challenge and support WCVA in their impact and role in supporting the community and keeping us focused on what matters locally as well as the need for national leadership". He is also an ambassador for TREAT Trust Wales, and is the Welsh ambassador of Into Film, a charity which offers after-school film clubs to state primary and secondary schools in an effort to improve literacy levels.[239] He is also an ambassador of the environmental charity Keep Wales Tidy.[240]

Sheen is a patron of British charities including Scene & Heard,[241] NSPCC's Child's Voice Appeal,[242] Healing the Wounds,[243][244] The Relationships Centre,[245] WGCADA (West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse)[246] and Adferiad Recovery, a new organisation providing support for vulnerable people in Wales and their families and carers.[247] He has taken part in a number of charity football matches, including captaining the winning Soccer Aid 2010 team at Wembley Stadium,[248] as well as appearing in the 2012 and 2014 matches. He is a patron of the British Independent Film Awards,[249] an ambassador for the Dylan Thomas Prize[250] and vice-president of Port Talbot Town F.C.[251] In October 2018, Sheen sponsored a women's football team in Wales.[252]

In 2014, Sheen designed a Shakespeare-themed Paddington Bear statue. Placed outside Shakespeare's Globe, it was one of fifty statues of Paddington located around London prior to the release of the film Paddington, which were auctioned to raise funds for the NSPCC.[253] In 2017 Sheen founded the End High Cost Credit Alliance working to promote more affordable ways to borrow money.[254] That same year Sheen became a Patron of Social Enterprise UK, a charity which supports social projects which benefit local, environmental and co-operative causes.[255] In October 2018 Sheen and Natasha Kaplinsky became vice-presidents (an ambassadorial role) of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).[256] Sheen is a fundraising partner with the non-profit organization, The White Curl, which supports Welsh charities.[257] In December 2021, Sheen announced that he would be giving all of his future earnings to charities, declaring himself a "not-for-profit actor".[258]

Political activism

Sheen has done much political work, from campaigning to end high-cost credit agreements to trying to help find a solution to the crisis in local journalism.[259]

He has also highlighted the importance of having a "healthy discussion" about Welsh independence.[260] In 2020 Sheen received much media attention after revealing that he returned the OBE in 2017[261] in order to "avoid being a hypocrite" following a speech citing "past wrongs" committed by England "to fracture us, to control us, to subdue us".[262]

On the "Prince of Wales" title, Sheen said the following:

When that change and the traditional requirements would mean the Prince of Wales would become a new person, and a new Englishman, it would be I think a really meaningful and powerful gesture for that title to no longer be held in the same way as it has before. That would be an incredibly meaningful thing I think to happen. Make a break there. Put some things that have been wrongs of the past right. There's an opportunity to do that at that point. Don't necessarily just because of habit and without thinking just carry on that tradition that was started as a humiliation to our country. That’s what it was. It was a humiliation. Why not change that when we come to this moment where inevitably things will change anyway?[263]

Personal life

Sheen was in a relationship with English actress Kate Beckinsale from 1995 until 2003. They met when cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995,[37] and began living together shortly afterwards.[264][265] Their daughter was born in 1999 in London.[37] Their relationship ended in January 2003, soon after the couple moved to Los Angeles.[37] Beckinsale had persuaded director Len Wiseman to cast Sheen in Underworld;[266] but while on set, she and Wiseman fell in love,[9] and subsequently married in 2004.[267]

Sheen had a long-distance relationship with English ballet dancer Lorraine Stewart from late 2004 until mid-2010.[268] He dated Canadian actress Rachel McAdams from autumn 2010 to early 2013.[269][270] He dated American comedian Sarah Silverman from early 2014 to early 2018.[271][272]

Sheen lives in Baglan, Wales with his partner, Swedish actress Anna Lundberg.[273][274][275] The couple have two daughters together, born September 2019 and May 2022.[276][277][278]

Awards and recognition

Theatre awards

  • M.E.N. Theatre Award for Best Actor (1992)—nominated for Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
  • Ian Charleson Award (1993)—nominated for Don't Fool with Love at the Donmar Warehouse, London[29]
  • Ian Charleson Award (1997)—nominated for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance (1998)—nominated for Amadeus at the Old Vic, London
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor (1999)—nominated for Amadeus at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (1999)—nominated for Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre, Chandigarh
  • Evening Standard Award for Best Actor (1999)—nominated for Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre, London
  • Evening Standard Award for Best Actor (2003)—win for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse, London
  • Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (2003)—win for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse, London
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (2003)—nominated for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse, London
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (2006)—nominated for Frost/Nixon at the Donmar Warehouse, London
  • Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance (2007)—nominated for Frost/Nixon at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway
  • Theatre Award UK for Best Director (2011)—win for The Passion, a site-specific performance in Port Talbot, Wales

Screen awards

Return of OBE

Sheen was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for his services to drama.[279] In 2020, Sheen revealed, during an online interview with Owen Jones, that he had "handed back" the medal after doing research for a lecture on the relationship between Wales and the British state, saying "I didn't mean any disrespect but I just realised I'd be a hypocrite if I said the things I was going to say in the lecture about the nature of the relationship between Wales and the British state."[280] Individuals who voluntarily renounce an honour continue to legally hold it unless it is annulled by the monarch.[281]

Other honours

He was awarded the freedom of the borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales in 2008 for his services in the field of the dramatic arts.[282][283][failed verification] He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Newport,[284] the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama,[285] Swansea University,[286] Aberystwyth University and Swansea Metropolitan University,[287][288] and has been awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin.[289]

List of performances

Main article: List of Michael Sheen performances

In addition to theatre, film and television credits, Sheen has also appeared in many radio productions, particularly in the early years of his career. Notable radio play appearances include Strangers on a Train (1994) opposite Bill Nighy,[290] The Importance of Being Earnest (1995) opposite Judi Dench,[291] Romeo and Juliet (1997) opposite Kate Beckinsale,[292] Troy (1998)[293] and The Pretenders (2004) both opposite Paul Scofield.[294] He has narrated five novels for BBC Radio 4 and Naxos AudioBooks: Crime and Punishment (1994),[295] The Idiot (1995),[296] The Picture of Dorian Gray (1995),[297] A White Merc With Fins (1997),[298] Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)[299] and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013).

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michael, sheen, michael, christopher, sheen, born, february, 1969, welsh, actor, television, producer, political, activist, after, training, london, royal, academy, dramatic, rada, worked, mainly, theatre, throughout, 1990s, with, stage, roles, romeo, juliet, . Michael Christopher Sheen born 5 February 1969 1 is a Welsh actor television producer and political activist After training at London s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles 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 Michael SheenSheen at the 2018 New York Comic ConBornMichael Christopher Sheen 1969 02 05 5 February 1969 age 53 Newport Monmouthshire WalesEducationGlan Afan Comprehensive School Neath Port Talbot CollegeAlma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic ArtOccupationsActortelevision producerYears active1991 presentPartnersKate Beckinsale 1995 2003 Lorraine Stewart 2004 2010 Sarah Silverman 2014 2018 Anna Lundberg 2019 present Children3Sheen s voice source source source track track recorded December 2018Sheen has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s in particular through his roles in various biographical films 2 For writer Peter Morgan he starred in a trilogy of films as UK prime minister Tony Blair the television film The Deal in 2003 The Queen 2006 and The Special Relationship 2010 earning him nominations 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 a role he revisited in the 2008 film adaptation of the play He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United 2009 Since 2009 Sheen had a wider variety of roles In 2009 he appeared in two fantasy films Underworld Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga New Moon and in 2010 he made a four episode guest appearance in the NBC comedy 30 Rock He appeared in the science fiction film Tron Legacy 2010 and Woody Allen s romantic comedy Midnight in Paris 2011 He directed and starred in National Theatre Wales s The Passion 3 4 From late 2011 until early 2012 he played the title role in Hamlet at the Young Vic He 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 Sheen played an incarcerated serial killer surgeon in Fox s drama series Prodigal Son 2019 2021 Aziraphale in the BBC Amazon Studios fantasy comedy series Good Omens 2019 present and appeared as Chris Tarrant in Quiz 2020 He played himself in the quarantine comedy show Staged 2020 2022 with Good Omens co star David Tennant throughout the COVID 19 lockdown Sheen is politically engaged and in 2017 he returned his OBE after conducting research on Wales s relationship with England Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Classical stage roles 1991 2001 2 2 The Deal The Queen and Fantabulosa 2002 2006 2 3 Frost Nixon and The Damned United 2007 2009 2 4 Hamlet and Masters of Sex 2010 2018 2 5 Good Omens and Staged 2019 present 3 Charity work 4 Political activism 5 Personal life 6 Awards and recognition 6 1 Theatre awards 6 2 Screen awards 6 3 Return of OBE 6 4 Other honours 7 List of performances 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditSheen was born on 5 February 1969 in Newport Monmouthshire Wales 5 the son of Irene a secretary and Meyrick a British Steel Corporation personnel manager 6 He has one younger sister Joanne 6 The family lived in Llanmartin near Newport for 12 years 7 When he was five the family moved to Wallasey for work 8 but settled in his parents home town of Port Talbot Glamorgan three years later 9 10 Director Sam Mendes has described Sheen as a stage creature and attributed that to the actor s Welsh roots I m serious He s Welsh in the tradition of Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton fiery mercurial unpredictable 11 A keen footballer Sheen was scouted and offered a place on Arsenal s youth team at the age of 12 but his family was unwilling to relocate to London He later said he was grateful for his parents decision as the chances of forging a professional football career were so slim 12 Sheen was raised in a theatrical family his parents both being involved in local amateur operatics and musicals 13 and later in life his father worked as a part time professional Jack Nicholson lookalike 14 In his teenage years Sheen was involved with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and later the National Youth Theatre of Wales 13 15 It was a brilliant youth theatre Sheen has said and it taught me not only a lot about acting but also about work ethic it was very disciplined 16 He was influenced by the performances of Laurence Olivier and the writings of theatre critic Kenneth Tynan saying the combination of those two things kind of blew my head off 17 18 Sheen was educated at Blaenbaglan Primary School Glan Afan Comprehensive School and finally Neath Port Talbot College where he sat A levels in English Drama and Sociology 6 He considered studying English at university but instead decided to attend drama school 13 He moved to London in 1988 to train as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA 13 having spent the previous year working in a Welsh fast food restaurant called Burger Master to earn money 6 Sheen was granted the Laurence Olivier Bursary by the Society of London Theatre in his second year at RADA 19 20 He graduated in 1991 with a BA in Acting 6 Career EditClassical stage roles 1991 2001 Edit Sheen worked predominantly in theatre in the 1990s and has since remarked that he will always feel slightly more at home on stage It s more of an actor s medium You are your own editor nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you 21 His first professional role while still in his third and final year at RADA was in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991 22 He later described the role as a big break One day I was at RADA doing a movement class the next I was at a read through with Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour 23 Milton Shulman of the Evening Standard praised an excellent performance 24 while The Observer wrote of a notable West End debut 25 In 1992 Sheen s performance in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange received a MEN Theatre Award nomination 26 and led theatre critic Michael Coveney to declare him the most exciting young actor of his generation a volatile electrifying and technically fearless performer 14 27 His 1993 turn as Perdican in Alfred de Musset s Don t Fool With Love at the Donmar Warehouse was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award 28 29 and was described by The Independent as quite thrilling 30 Also in 1993 Sheen appeared in the world premiere of Harold Pinter s Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre 31 and made his television debut in the 1993 BBC mini series Gallowglass 32 Sheen played the title role in Peer Gynt in 1994 The Yukio Ninagawa production was staged in Oslo Tokyo and at the Barbican Centre London The Times praised Sheen s astonishing vitality 33 while The Independent found him sensationally good and noted that the Norwegian press were grudgingly captivated by the mercurial Welsh boyo 34 In other 1994 work Sheen appeared in Le Livre de Spencer at the Odeon Theatre de l Europe Paris 35 and starred in the cross dressing farce Charley s Aunt at the Royal Exchange 36 In 1995 he appeared opposite Kate Beckinsale in a production of The Seagull at the Theatre Royal Bath 37 and with the encouragement of Thelma Holt 38 directed and starred in The Dresser at the Theatre Royal Plymouth In addition Sheen made his film debut that year appearing opposite Kenneth Branagh in Othello 39 1996 saw Sheen at the National Theatre for The Ends of the Earth an original play by David Lan 40 A minor role in Mary Reilly marked the first of three film collaborations with director Stephen Frears 41 Sheen s most significant appearance of 1997 was the title role in Henry V staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company RSC at their Stratford upon Avon theatre which earned him a second Ian Charleson Award nomination 42 The Times praised a blisteringly intelligent performance 43 Also in 1997 he appeared in a revival of Harold Pinter s The Homecoming at the National Theatre directed by Roger Michell 44 and directed Badfinger starring Rhys Ifans at the Donmar Warehouse 45 46 47 The latter was staged by the Thin Language Theatre Company which Sheen had co founded in 1991 aiming to further Welsh theatre 38 48 He then appeared in the biographical film Wilde playing Robbie Ross to Stephen Fry s Oscar Wilde 49 In early 1998 Sheen formed a production company The Foundry with Helen McCrory and Robert Delamere to promote the work of emerging playwrights 48 and produced A Little World of Our Own at the Donmar Warehouse which gave Colin Farrell his West End debut 50 The Old Vic where Sheen starred in a successful revival of Amadeus in 1998 The play later transferred to Broadway From 1998 to 1999 Sheen starred as Mozart in a successful revival of Amadeus 51 The Peter Hall directed production was staged at the Old Vic London and later transferred to the Music Box on Broadway Ben Brantley chief theatre critic for The New York Times was particularly vocal in his praise He noted that Mr Sheen elicits a real poetry from the role and felt that while watching him you start to appreciate the derivation of the term star This actor is so luminous it s scary 52 The Independent found him quite stunning as Mozart His fantastically physical performance convinces you of his character s genius and the play catches fire whenever he s on stage 53 Sheen was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor 28 54 55 In 1999 Sheen explored the role of Jimmy Porter in the National Theatre s production of Look Back in Anger In 2003 Sheen described the production as the most enjoyable thing I ve ever done everything came together 56 Sheen has cornered the market in explosive energy said The Independent but this thrilling performance is his finest yet 57 The Financial Times noted As Jimmy Porter a role of staggering difficulty in every way Michael Sheen gives surely the best performance London has yet seen from him You hang on every word he utters This is a dazzlingly through the body performance 58 He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor 59 The Deal The Queen and Fantabulosa 2002 2006 Edit At this point in his career Sheen began to devote more time to film work 60 Heartlands a little seen 2002 film about a naive man s road trip in the Midlands was his first leading film role 61 While The Guardian dismissed the cloying bittersweet regional lottery Britfilm it noted that Sheen himself has a childlike Frank Spencer ish charm 62 It was great to do something that was so different Sheen has said of the role I usually play very extreme characters 63 Also in 2002 he had a minor role in the action adventure film The Four Feathers 64 In 2003 Sheen appeared in Bright Young Things the directorial debut of his Wilde co star Stephen Fry An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh s novel Vile Bodies the film followed high society partygoers in decadent pre war London Sheen played a gay aristocrat in an ensemble cast which included James McAvoy Emily Mortimer David Tennant Dan Aykroyd Jim Broadbent and Peter O Toole While the Los Angeles Times said he shone 65 The Guardian felt the role drastically under uses his talents 66 Sheen described his character as possibly the campest man in cinema history and relished a scene where I do drugs with a then 95 year old Sir John Mills 67 In other 2003 film work Sheen portrayed the werewolf leader Lucian in Underworld 68 and made a brief appearance in the sci fi film Timeline 69 Sheen returned to the stage in 2003 to play the title role in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Michael Grandage It was the first of just three stage appearances during the 2000s his young daughter was now based in Los Angeles which made more frequent stage runs in Britain impractical 70 The Independent s critic declared it one of the most thrilling and searching performances I have ever witnessed 71 and The Daily Telegraph described him as an outrageously charismatic actor with an astonishing physical presence 72 The Times praised a riveting performance 73 and The Guardian found him highly impressive at one point he attacks his court poet with a single hair raising leap across a chair and table 74 Sheen won an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor and a Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor and was again nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor 75 76 Sheen s breakthrough role was as British politician Tony Blair in 2003 s The Deal The Channel 4 film explored the so called Granita pact made by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown prior to the 1994 Labour Party leadership election and was the actor s first collaboration with screenwriter Peter Morgan Director Stephen Frears cast him because he was in Mary Reilly and I knew he was brilliant 77 Filmed while he was playing Caligula nightly on stage Sheen has remarked It s interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders 78 The Daily Telegraph praised his earnest yet steely portrayal 79 while The Guardian found him excellent This is intelligent and honest casting 80 In 2004 Sheen starred in ITV s Dirty Filthy Love a comic film about a man dealing with OCD and Tourette s after a marital separation Sheen spoke of treading a fine line because a lot of the symptoms are intrinsically comical 75 He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Television Actor and a RTS Best Actor Award 81 82 Also in 2004 Sheen played a pompous rock star in the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction 83 and produced and starred in The Banker which won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film 84 85 In 2005 Sheen starred in the National Theatre s production of The UN Inspector a David Farr adaptation of The Government Inspector The Times wrote of a scathingly brilliant and inventive performance 86 while Variety noted that the actor adds comic finesse to his apparently ceaseless repertoire 87 The Evening Standard while conceding that the performance was technically brilliant expressed bemusement as to why one of the most mercurial and inspiring actors we have seems set on impersonating Rik Mayall throughout 88 Also that year he took part in the Old Vic s 24 Hour Play 89 in which The Daily Telegraph felt he dazzled 90 In 2005 film work Sheen starred in Dead Long Enough a small budget Welsh Irish film with his longtime friend Jason Hughes 91 92 In addition he had a supporting role in Ridley Scott s Kingdom of Heaven 93 made a cameo appearance in The League of Gentlemen s Apocalypse 94 and starred in the short film The Open Doors 95 Sheen came to international attention in 2006 for his portrayal of Tony Blair in The Queen The film focused on the differing reactions of the British Royal Family and the newly appointed Prime Minister following the death of Diana Princess of Wales in 1997 it was Sheen s third collaboration with director Stephen Frears and his second with screenwriter Peter Morgan He enjoyed reprising his role because Blair at this point in his career had a weight to him that he didn t have before 18 When asked to discuss his personal opinion of Blair Sheen admitted that the more time he spent working on the character the less opinion he has of the politician Now when I watch him on TV or hear his voice it s sort of like a cross between a family member a friend and seeing a really old embarrassing video of yourself 96 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised a sensational performance alert and nuanced 97 while Empire spoke of an uncanny insightful performance 98 Sheen was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 99 His second film appearance of 2006 was a supporting role in Blood Diamond as an unscrupulous diamond dealer 100 Also in 2006 Sheen starred as the troubled English comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four s Fantabulosa In preparation for the role he lost two and a half stone approx 35 lbs studied archival footage and read Williams published diaries 18 Sheen has said he is fascinated by finding the private side of the public face 101 The Times found his performance mesmerising 102 while The Observer described it as a characterisation for which the description tour de force is frankly pretty faint praise 103 He won a RTS Award for Best Actor 104 and received his second BAFTA nomination of 2006 for Best Television Actor 105 Sheen starred in two other BBC television productions in 2006 playing H G Wells in H G Wells War with the World 106 and Nero in Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire 107 Frost Nixon and The Damned United 2007 2009 Edit From 2006 to 2007 Sheen starred as the television broadcaster David Frost in Frost Nixon at both the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London and at the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway The play written by Peter Morgan directed by Michael Grandage and co starring Frank Langella was a critical and commercial success 108 but Sheen initially accepted the role as a favour to his friends and never thought it was going anywhere 109 The Guardian said the actor exactly captures Frost s verbal tics and mannerisms while suggesting a nervousness behind the self assurance 110 He s got the voice the mannerisms the blaze said the Financial Times but more than that Sheen as viscerally exciting an actor as any in Britain today shows us the hunger of Frost s ambition and fox like instinct for the hunt and the kill 111 Sheen was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance 112 113 Sheen next appeared in the 2007 film Music Within as a political activist with cerebral palsy He spoke of having a responsibility to accurately portray the condition 114 Variety said his performance was remarkable utterly convincing 115 USA Today found him outstanding 116 while the Los Angeles Times felt he was reminiscent of Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot bringing a vibrancy and wit to the role 117 Also that year Sheen starred in the short film Airlock or How To Say Goodbye in Space with Derek Jacobi 118 and was invited to join the actors branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts amp Sciences 119 Sheen reprised the role of David Frost in 2008 s Frost Nixon a film dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews of 1977 Despite appearing in the original stage production in a part written for him by Peter Morgan Sheen was surprised to have been cast in the film Peter said he d only be prepared to give the rights to someone who would cast me as Frost which was very nice but when the studios get their hands on something Right up until we started filming I was prepared to be disappointed 120 Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a compelling intense performance 121 while The Wall Street Journal felt he was a brilliant actor who grows his character from a bright eyed social butterfly to a gimlet eyed interrogator 122 However The New York Times felt the likable watchable Mr Sheen has been pitted against a scene stealer in Frank Langella s Nixon 123 Frost himself later said it was a wonderful performance 124 Sheen was the recipient of the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2008 125 while Langella was nominated for an Academy Award Sheen at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009 He was invited to join the actors branch of the Academy in 2007 In 2009 portrayed another public figure he starred in The Damned United as the outspoken football manager Brian Clough The Tom Hooper directed film focused on Clough s disastrous 44 day tenure as manager of Leeds United and marked Sheen s fifth collaboration with writer Peter Morgan He said Clough is the real life character he enjoyed playing most 126 The Guardian writing in 2009 declared it the best performance of his big screen career 127 while The Times found him magnificent 128 Entertainment Weekly asserted that despite American audiences unfamiliarity with Clough what s lost in translation is recovered easily enough in Michael Sheen s astonishing performance 129 Variety noted that his typically scrupulous channelling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth 130 Also in 2009 Sheen reprised his role as a werewolf in Underworld Rise of the Lycans a prequel to the original film Of his decision to take part Sheen has said My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I d like to go and see myself 131 The New York Times felt he was the movie s greatest asset taking a lively break from his usual high crust duties to bring wit actual acting and some unexpected musculature to the goth horror flick 132 Variety said he hit all the right notes in a star powered performance that will amuse if not amaze anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost 133 while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he tries bravely to keep a straight face 134 Sheen had a supporting role in 2009 s The Twilight Saga New Moon the second film in the highly popular vampire series 135 In its review Rolling Stone said Late in the film a real actor Michael Sheen shows up as the mind reading Aro of the Italian Volturi vampires and sparks things up You can almost hear the young cast thinking Is that acting It looks hard So Sheen is quickly ushered out 136 While The New York Times said he preens with plausible menace 137 USA Today felt he plays the character with more high pitched giddiness than menace 138 He was named Actor of the Year at GQ magazine s annual Men of the Year ceremony 139 Sheen made two one off stage appearances in 2009 he performed a scene from Betrayal as part of a Harold Pinter tribute evening at the National Theatre 140 and performed improvisational comedy as part of The Groundlings Crazy Joe Show in Los Angeles 141 Hamlet and Masters of Sex 2010 2018 Edit In 2010 Sheen had a supporting role in the science fiction sequel Tron Legacy Referring to his David Bowie esque character Sheen has said I was paid to show off basically 101 The Wall Street Journal found little fun in the movie except for a gleefully campy turn by Michael Sheen 142 while The New York Times said he shows up to deliver the closest thing to a performance in the movie 143 The Daily Telegraph felt his lively hamming as a cane swishing nightclub owner merely underlines how impersonal how inhuman much else here is 144 However USA Today felt his scenery chewing performance is meant as comic relief but this movie thunders along so seriously that the attempt at humor feels jarring 145 In other 2010 film work Sheen voiced Nivens McTwisp the White Rabbit in Tim Burton s Alice in Wonderland 146 and Dr Griffiths in Disney s Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue 147 and appeared as a terrorist in Unthinkable 148 On television Sheen s performance in the third instalment of Peter Morgan s Blair trilogy The Special Relationship was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor Miniseries or Movie 149 The HBO film examined the special relationship between the US and the UK in the political era of Blair and Bill Clinton It was the sixth collaboration between Sheen and Peter Morgan both parties have since said they will not work together again for the foreseeable future 23 150 Sheen also made a guest appearance in four episodes of NBC s 30 Rock as Wesley Snipes a love interest for Tina Fey s Liz Lemon Fey the sitcom s star and creator has said that he was so funny and delightful to work with 151 152 In November 2010 Sheen received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year 153 Sheen at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con In 2011 Sheen starred in and was creative director of National Theatre Wales s The Passion a 72 hour secular passion play staged in his hometown of Port Talbot Wales 154 In addition to a professional cast over one thousand local amateurs took part in the performance and as many more volunteers from local charity and community groups were involved in preparations in the months leading up to the play 155 156 The event was the subject of both a BBC documentary and The Gospel of Us a film by director Dave McKean 157 158 Sheen has described it as the most meaningful experience of his career 159 The Observer declared it one of the outstanding theatrical events not only of this year but of the decade 160 The Independent s critic described it as the most extraordinary piece of community specific theatre I ve ever beheld 161 While The Daily Telegraph bemoaned the large scale production s logistical problems overall I found it touching transformative and in its own wayward way a triumph 162 The Guardian felt it was so much more than just an epic piece of street theatre transforming and uplifting 163 Sheen and co director Bill Mitchell were jointly honoured as Best Director at the Theatre Awards UK 2011 164 In 2013 Sheen was nominated for a Best Actor Welsh BAFTA for The Gospel of Us 165 Sheen s most notable film appearance of 2011 was a supporting role in Woody Allen s Midnight in Paris 166 Allen noted that Michael had to do the pseudo intellectual the genuine intellectual the pedant and he came in and nailed it from the start 167 Sheen enjoyed playing someone who s just absolutely got no sense that he s overstepping the mark or that he s being a bore 168 The film opened the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and became Allen s highest grossing film to date 169 Also in 2011 Sheen starred in Beautiful Boy an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting 170 voiced the enigmatic and mysterious villain House in the Doctor Who episode The Doctor s Wife written by his friend Neil Gaiman 171 and made cameo appearances in The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 172 and Resistance 173 In 2012 film work Sheen starred opposite Toni Collette in the independent comedy Jesus Henry Christ 174 and reprised his role as the vampire Aro in the final instalment of The Twilight Saga 175 176 Sheen played the title role in Hamlet at the Young Vic in late 2011 and early 2012 177 a role he first explored in a 1999 BBC Radio 3 production 178 While there had been tentative plans over the years for both Peter Hall and Michael Grandage to direct Sheen in the play 179 180 181 he eventually asked Ian Rickson 140 Rickson s production was set in the secure wing of a psychiatric hospital and featured original music by PJ Harvey 182 The Evening Standard declared Sheen s performance an audacious achievement that will live in the memory 183 while The Independent praised a recklessly brilliant and bravura performance 184 The Daily Telegraph felt that Sheen could be right up there among the great Hamlets 185 were it not for Rickson s mindlessly modish staging while The Times found him unbearably moving 186 187 The Guardian described him as fascinating to watch intelligent inventive and full of insights he delivers the What a piece of work is a man passage with a beautiful consciousness of human potential 188 The Observer declared him an actor always worth crossing a principality to see and hear whose To be or not to be is a marvel 189 In 2013 Sheen appeared in a supporting role as the boyfriend of Tina Fey in the comedy Admission with Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice describing the character as a whiskery elfin academic who chuckles to himself as he reads the Canterbury Tales prologue aloud in bed in Middle English no less Sheen is scarily good at this 190 In 2014 he starred in the fantasy children s film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box 191 R Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine said the ever versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role 192 but Matt Pais of RedEye found him insufficiently zany in a part that Robert Downey Jr would nail but never accept 193 His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller Kill the Messenger 194 Also in 2014 he starred in IFC s six episode The Spoils of Babylon a television parody of classic sweeping miniseries in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig s character 195 In 2015 Sheen starred opposite Carey Mulligan in the romantic drama Far from the Madding Crowd as prosperous bachelor William Boldwood His performance was well received 196 197 198 Anthony Lane of The New Yorker remarked How you prevent such a fellow crushed by his own decency from sagging into a bearded Ashley Wilkes is no easy task yet Sheen succeeds and Boldwood s brave smile grows dreadful to behold 199 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A V Club found the character pitiful and sometimes downright painful to watch He s not Hardy s Boldwood but he s a Boldwood The only sad genuine moment of the film belongs to him 200 Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian remarked that Sheen s face is etched with agony and an awful kind of abject adoration forever trying to find ways to forgive the loved one in advance for rejection When Sheen s Boldwood confides to Oak that he feels grief you really can feel his pain 201 Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice also referred to the scene where Boldwood expressed his grief commenting Sheen s performance is fine grained and the pure Englishness of his understatement is heartrending 202 Also in 2015 Sheen had well received comedic television performances in Comedy Bang Bang 203 204 The Spoils Before Dying 205 206 207 208 and 7 Days in Hell 209 Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times said his television host in 7 Days in Hell was played with damp lechery and cigarette ash mastery 210 Liz Shannon Miller of Indiewire said he may have stolen the show 211 while John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter described him as the scene stealer of the bunch 212 source source source source source source source source track Sheen presenting the St David Awards Cardiff in 2015 Between 2013 and 2016 Sheen starred in and produced Showtime s Masters of Sex 213 He and Lizzy Caplan portrayed the 1960s human sexuality pioneers Masters and Johnson the series chronicled their unusual lives romance and pop culture trajectory which saw them go from a Midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and Johnny Carson s couch 214 215 David Sims of The Atlantic described Sheen s portrayal of Masters as an intensely honest and unsympathetic one 216 while Sonia Saraiya of The A V Club said Sheen played the role so seamlessly it s hard to remember that there s a British actor there who has played flamboyant news personalities and prime ministers 217 Sean T Collins of The Observer described Masters as a singularly unappealing figure It s not that Michael Sheen is bad in the role On the contrary Sheen s skill in playing Masters as an asshole who oscillates between headache inducing self repression and volcanic rage renders him unpleasant to spend more than two minutes with at a time 218 Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter remarked Masters has never been very likable In fact it s a testament to Sheen s performance and Caplan s nuanced Johnson offsetting Masters that anyone still cares what happens to Masters on a personal level 219 He received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in late 2013 220 221 In 2016 Sheen had supporting roles in the dramas Nocturnal Animals 222 and Norman The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer 223 and the science fiction romance Passengers 224 He also reprised his role as the White Rabbit in the fantasy adventure Alice Through the Looking Glass 225 In 2017 he had supporting roles in the dramatic comedies Brad s Status 226 and Home Again 227 In 2018 Sheen was cast as unconventional lawyer Roland Blum in season 3 of television series The Good Fight 228 Good Omens and Staged 2019 present Edit In May 2019 Sheen starred alongside David Tennant in Good Omens based on the novel of the same name written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and was cast as Chris Tarrant in the TV adaptation of James Graham s stage play Quiz 229 In September 2019 Sheen began playing the role of Martin Whitly in the American television series Prodigal Son on Fox 230 231 In April 2020 Quiz was shown on ITV On 14 April when the channel broadcast the second instalment the continuity announcer introduced him as Martin Sheen a different actor Sheen reacted to this by changing his Twitter handle to Martin Sheen 232 In June 2020 Sheen starred alongside David Tennant again in a six part television lockdown comedy entitled Staged which was made using video conferencing software 233 A second eight episode series started airing in January 2021 234 In June 2021 Sheen returned to the London stage after its protracted period of Covid 19 shutdown in Dylan Thomas s Under Milk Wood in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre A new production of Amadeus scheduled for December 2022 at the Sydney Opera House was announced in July 2022 with Sheen as Salieri 235 Continuing Sheen s professional partnership with Tennant a third six episode series of Staged aired in its entirely on 14 November 2022 236 237 while a second six episode series of Good Omens will premiere in 2023 238 Charity work EditSheen is the honorary President of Wales Council for Voluntary Action the lead national body for the voluntary sector in Wales Accepting the role he explained I plan to use my role to actively challenge and support WCVA in their impact and role in supporting the community and keeping us focused on what matters locally as well as the need for national leadership He is also an ambassador for TREAT Trust Wales and is the Welsh ambassador of Into Film a charity which offers after school film clubs to state primary and secondary schools in an effort to improve literacy levels 239 He is also an ambassador of the environmental charity Keep Wales Tidy 240 Sheen is a patron of British charities including Scene amp Heard 241 NSPCC s Child s Voice Appeal 242 Healing the Wounds 243 244 The Relationships Centre 245 WGCADA West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse 246 and Adferiad Recovery a new organisation providing support for vulnerable people in Wales and their families and carers 247 He has taken part in a number of charity football matches including captaining the winning Soccer Aid 2010 team at Wembley Stadium 248 as well as appearing in the 2012 and 2014 matches He is a patron of the British Independent Film Awards 249 an ambassador for the Dylan Thomas Prize 250 and vice president of Port Talbot Town F C 251 In October 2018 Sheen sponsored a women s football team in Wales 252 In 2014 Sheen designed a Shakespeare themed Paddington Bear statue Placed outside Shakespeare s Globe it was one of fifty statues of Paddington located around London prior to the release of the film Paddington which were auctioned to raise funds for the NSPCC 253 In 2017 Sheen founded the End High Cost Credit Alliance working to promote more affordable ways to borrow money 254 That same year Sheen became a Patron of Social Enterprise UK a charity which supports social projects which benefit local environmental and co operative causes 255 In October 2018 Sheen and Natasha Kaplinsky became vice presidents an ambassadorial role of the Royal Society for Public Health RSPH 256 Sheen is a fundraising partner with the non profit organization The White Curl which supports Welsh charities 257 In December 2021 Sheen announced that he would be giving all of his future earnings to charities declaring himself a not for profit actor 258 Political activism EditSheen has done much political work from campaigning to end high cost credit agreements to trying to help find a solution to the crisis in local journalism 259 He has also highlighted the importance of having a healthy discussion about Welsh independence 260 In 2020 Sheen received much media attention after revealing that he returned the OBE in 2017 261 in order to avoid being a hypocrite following a speech citing past wrongs committed by England to fracture us to control us to subdue us 262 On the Prince of Wales title Sheen said the following When that change and the traditional requirements would mean the Prince of Wales would become a new person and a new Englishman it would be I think a really meaningful and powerful gesture for that title to no longer be held in the same way as it has before That would be an incredibly meaningful thing I think to happen Make a break there Put some things that have been wrongs of the past right There s an opportunity to do that at that point Don t necessarily just because of habit and without thinking just carry on that tradition that was started as a humiliation to our country That s what it was It was a humiliation Why not change that when we come to this moment where inevitably things will change anyway 263 Personal life EditSheen was in a relationship with English actress Kate Beckinsale from 1995 until 2003 They met when cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995 37 and began living together shortly afterwards 264 265 Their daughter was born in 1999 in London 37 Their relationship ended in January 2003 soon after the couple moved to Los Angeles 37 Beckinsale had persuaded director Len Wiseman to cast Sheen in Underworld 266 but while on set she and Wiseman fell in love 9 and subsequently married in 2004 267 Sheen had a long distance relationship with English ballet dancer Lorraine Stewart from late 2004 until mid 2010 268 He dated Canadian actress Rachel McAdams from autumn 2010 to early 2013 269 270 He dated American comedian Sarah Silverman from early 2014 to early 2018 271 272 Sheen lives in Baglan Wales with his partner Swedish actress Anna Lundberg 273 274 275 The couple have two daughters together born September 2019 and May 2022 276 277 278 Awards and recognition EditTheatre awards Edit M E N Theatre Award for Best Actor 1992 nominated for Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange Manchester Ian Charleson Award 1993 nominated for Don t Fool with Love at the Donmar Warehouse London 29 Ian Charleson Award 1997 nominated for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford Upon Avon Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance 1998 nominated for Amadeus at the Old Vic London Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor 1999 nominated for Amadeus at the Music Box Theatre Broadway Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor 1999 nominated for Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre Chandigarh Evening Standard Award for Best Actor 1999 nominated for Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor 2003 win for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor 2003 win for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse London Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor 2003 nominated for Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse London Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor 2006 nominated for Frost Nixon at the Donmar Warehouse London Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance 2007 nominated for Frost Nixon at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre Broadway Theatre Award UK for Best Director 2011 win for The Passion a site specific performance in Port Talbot WalesScreen awards Edit British Academy Television Award for Best Actor 2004 nominated for Dirty Filthy Love Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor 2004 nominated for Dirty Filthy Love British Academy Television Award for Best Actor 2006 nominated for Fantabulosa Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor 2006 win for Fantabulosa BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2006 nominated for The Queen Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor 2006 nominated for The Queen Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor 2006 win for The Queen New York Film Critics Online 2006 win for The Queen Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor 2006 win for The Queen Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor 2006 win for The Queen St Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor 2007 nominated for The Music Within Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor 2008 nominated for Frost Nixon London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year 2008 nominated for Frost Nixon Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2008 nominated for Frost Nixon Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2008 win GQ Magazine s Actor of the Year 2009 win Satellite Award for Best Actor Motion Picture 2009 nominated for The Damned United Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor Miniseries or a Movie 2010 nominated for The Special Relationship BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year 2010 win Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2012 nominated for Midnight in Paris Welsh BAFTA Award for Best Actor 2013 nominated for The Gospel of UsReturn of OBE Edit Sheen was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for his services to drama 279 In 2020 Sheen revealed during an online interview with Owen Jones that he had handed back the medal after doing research for a lecture on the relationship between Wales and the British state saying I didn t mean any disrespect but I just realised I d be a hypocrite if I said the things I was going to say in the lecture about the nature of the relationship between Wales and the British state 280 Individuals who voluntarily renounce an honour continue to legally hold it unless it is annulled by the monarch 281 Other honours Edit He was awarded the freedom of the borough of Neath Port Talbot Wales in 2008 for his services in the field of the dramatic arts 282 283 failed verification He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Newport 284 the Royal Welsh College of Music amp Drama 285 Swansea University 286 Aberystwyth University and Swansea Metropolitan University 287 288 and has been awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin 289 List of performances EditMain article List of Michael Sheen performances In addition to theatre film and television credits Sheen has also appeared in many radio productions particularly in the early years of his career Notable radio play appearances include Strangers on a Train 1994 opposite Bill Nighy 290 The Importance of Being Earnest 1995 opposite Judi Dench 291 Romeo and Juliet 1997 opposite Kate Beckinsale 292 Troy 1998 293 and The Pretenders 2004 both opposite Paul Scofield 294 He has narrated five novels for BBC Radio 4 and Naxos AudioBooks Crime and Punishment 1994 295 The Idiot 1995 296 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1995 297 A White Merc With Fins 1997 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on 1 November 2019 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Sheen tells about long term lover This is South Wales 14 February 2009 Archived from the original on 24 May 2011 Retrieved 22 August 2011 Slonim Jeffrey 18 May 2011 Michael Sheen amp Rachel McAdams Confirm They Are Dating People Archived from the original on 24 March 2016 Retrieved 24 August 2021 Billups Andrea 27 February 2013 Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen Split People Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 24 August 2021 Chakelian Anoosh 5 December 2018 He changed all his nastiness suddenly came out Meet the people breaking up over Brexit New Statesman Archived from the original on 9 June 2019 Retrieved 12 September 2019 Saunders Tristram Fane 28 November 2018 Michael Sheen on Good Omens sex scenes and why Brexit led to his break up The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on 13 April 2020 Retrieved 6 December 2018 Michael Sheen plans to donate earnings to charities 6 December 2021 Archived from the original on 31 December 2021 Retrieved 31 December 2021 Nicholson Rebecca 6 April 2020 I was face to face with Tony Blair Michael Sheen on Murdoch class and giving away his money The Guardian London Archived from the original on 31 December 2021 Retrieved 31 December 2021 Movie star Michael Sheen is coming home to Wales North Wales Live 20 November 2010 Archived from the original on 28 January 2021 Retrieved 17 August 2021 Michael Sheen and Anna Lundberg welcome their baby BBC News 27 September 2019 Archived from the original on 20 October 2019 Retrieved 18 June 2020 Sheen Michael michaelsheen 17 July 2019 Very happy to let everyone know that my partner Anna and I are expecting a little angel of our own Tweet Retrieved 18 July 2019 via Twitter Just to be clear we re having a baby Michael Sheen and Partner Anna Lundberg Welcome Second Baby Another Monkey Jumping on the Bed People New Years Honours List The London Gazette 31 December 2008 p 12 Rawlinson Kevin 29 December 2020 Michael Sheen returned OBE to air views on royal family The Guardian Retrieved 29 December 2020 Having honours taken away forfeiture GOV UK Cabinet Office 27 December 2017 Archived from the original on 30 December 2020 Retrieved 31 December 2020 Freedom of the Borough ceremony Neath Port Talbot County Borough press release 21 July 2008 Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 Retrieved 18 December 2013 Freemen of Neath Port Talbot BBC Archived from the original on 5 January 2022 Retrieved 18 September 2011 University of Wales Newport s Honorary Fellows University of Wales Newport Archived from the original on 20 March 2012 Retrieved 18 September 2011 Honorary Fellows Royal Welsh College of Music amp Drama Archived from the original on 28 March 2012 Retrieved 18 September 2011 Swansea University honours Port Talbot s Michael Sheen with degree This is South Wales 18 October 2012 Archived from the original on 5 January 2022 Retrieved 17 December 2013 Honorary Fellowships for Leading Welsh Figures Swansea Metropolitan University 1 July 2009 Archived from the original on 4 June 2012 Retrieved 24 November 2011 Honour at uni for stars This is South Wales 11 July 2012 Archived from the original on 5 January 2022 Retrieved 17 December 2013 Star of the Damned United and the Queen receives L amp H Society James Joyce Award University College Dublin 15 February 2011 Archived from the original on 23 December 2020 Retrieved 18 September 2011 Strangers on a Train Radio Collection Amazon com Archived from the original on 5 January 2022 Retrieved 19 September 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest BBC 2009 Archived from the original on 1 January 2011 Retrieved 19 September 2011 Romeo and Juliet Naxos Audiobooks Archived from the original on 30 September 2011 Retrieved 19 September 2011 Hanks Robert 28 November 1998 Troy this time it s personal The Independent Archived from the original on 28 January 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2011 The Pretenders RadioListings co uk 2004 Archived from the original on 19 July 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2011 Crime and Punishment Naxos Audiobooks Archived from the original on 30 November 2011 Retrieved 19 September 2011 The Idiot abridged Naxos Audiobooks Archived from the original on 3 March 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2011 The Picture of Dorian Gray Naxos Audiobooks Archived from the original on 3 March 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2011 A White Merc With Fins RadioListings co uk 1997 Archived from the original on 19 July 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2011 Salmon Fishing in Yemen Book at Bedtime BBC 22 February 2007 Retrieved 19 September 2011 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Sheen Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Sheen Michael Sheen at IMDb Michael Sheen at the Internet Broadway Database Michael Sheen discography at Discogs Michael Sheen at AllMovie Michael Sheen at the TCM Movie Database Michael Sheen at Rotten Tomatoes Michael Sheen at the British Film Institute Q amp A Michael Sheen Comprehensive career 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