Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen

1969-02-05 Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK 104 Credits

Biography

Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool With Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards...

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Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway

2025

as Self

7.0
Acting

In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of people in Wales, and then he writes it all off

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway

2025

Producer

7.0
Producing

In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of people in Wales, and then he writes it all off

Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell

Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell

2025

as Self

8.0
Acting

An uplifting and touching documentary special which tells the story of one of Britain's best loved sitcoms as it comes to an end after 17 years. Featu...

Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special

Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special

2024

as Self - Audience Member

8.0
Acting

Michael McIntyre celebrates 25 years of stand-up comedy with a special recording of Macnificent, his latest worldwide sold-out show. Filmed at the ico...

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location

2024

as Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

Almost 50 years after the film’s release, all the Overlook Hotel’s sets are thought to have been destroyed, but one last filming site remains.

National Theatre Live: Nye

National Theatre Live: Nye

2024

as Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan

6.0
Acting

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life...

The Assembly

The Assembly

2024

as Self - Interviewed Guest

8.0
Acting

Michael Sheen faces the interview of a lifetime with The Assembly, a group of autistic, neurodivergent, and learning disabled people. Expect revelatio...

Live a Little

Live a Little

2024

as Arthur (character's voice)

10.0
Acting

An award-winning student short film shot on iPhone, reflecting the director’s experience in Rome. It inspires viewers to embrace life’s simple pleasur...

Christmas with Katherine Jenkins

Christmas with Katherine Jenkins

2023

as Self

Acting

Welsh superstar and mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE returns home to Wales to celebrate Christmas in a special one-off concert recorded at the Swan...

Cynefin

Cynefin

2023

as Self/Narrator

Acting

A moving short film featuring Michael Sheen to launch the name switch from Brecon Beacon’s National Park to Bannau Brycheiniog – describing it as “a n...

Pouring Water on Troubled Oil

Pouring Water on Troubled Oil

2023

as Dylan Thomas (voice)

Acting

A poetic documentary following the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s journey through Iran in 1951 on a film assignment for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Cons...

Written in the Stars

Written in the Stars

2023

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Narrated by Welsh actor and football-fan, Michael Sheen, 'Written in the Stars' is the official film of the first FIFA World Cup to be held in the Ara...

Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

2022

Acting

Public Service Broadcasting – a band who bring wit, invention and multimedia spectacle to the stage – return to the Proms after their previous, stagge...

Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System

Michael Sheen: Lifting the Lid on the Care System

2022

Acting

'I felt so alone and lost.' That’s what Hope told actor Michael Sheen about her time in care. BBC Wales Investigates gives a shocking insight into the...

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

2021

as Self

4.7
Acting

The world’s funniest and most star-studded pantomime is back! Lily James heads the cast as famous names from theatre, film, comedy and music gather to...

Last Train to Christmas

Last Train to Christmas

2021

as Tony Towers

5.4
Acting

When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers boards a magical train at Christmas, he discovers that each carriage harbours a different stage of h...

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

2021

as Owain Jenkins

Acting

A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living ...

How to Build a Girl

How to Build a Girl

2020

as Sigmund Freud

5.7
Acting

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets ...

Faith Healer

Faith Healer

2020

as Francis Hardy

Acting

The Fantastic Francis Hardy travels the most remote corners of Wales, Scotland and Ireland attempting to heal those who wish to be healed. His wife Gr...

Good Omens: Lockdown

Good Omens: Lockdown

2020

as Aziraphale (voice)

7.8
Acting

Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dolittle

Dolittle

2020

as Dr. Blair Müdfly

6.6
Acting

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself...

7 Up & Me

7 Up & Me

2019

as Self

7.5
Acting

In celebration of the release of 63 Up, the 2019 installment of Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary series that began in 1964, a number of Brit...

Pantomime in Port Talbot: Balls of Steel

2018

as Narrator

Acting

Following a year in the lives of some of Port Talbort's residents, as they prepare for the 50th anniversary of the staging of their Christmas pantomim...

Slaughterhouse Rulez

Slaughterhouse Rulez

2018

as The Bat

5.6
Acting

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakab...

Apostle

Apostle

2018

as Malcolm Howe

6.1
Acting

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

To Provide All People

2018

as Porter

6.0
Acting

To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birt...

Brad's Status

Brad's Status

2017

as Craig Fisher

6.2
Acting

Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his col...

Home Again

Home Again

2017

as Austen Bloom

6.1
Acting

Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

Il était une fois... « The Queen »

2017

as Self

Acting

Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Elizab...

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special

2017

as Carl Flossy

6.2
Acting

After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to start m...

Passengers

Passengers

2016

as Arthur

7.0
Acting

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passe...

Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

2016

as Carlos Holt

7.4
Acting

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, s...

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

2016

6.3
Acting

A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known ...

Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously

Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously

2016

as Self

7.0
Acting

Neil Gaiman is one of the most beloved storytellers in the world today, a medium-jumping legend who opened a new era of comics with Sandman, scared a ...

Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town

Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town

2016

as Presenter - Narrator

Acting

Michael Sheen returns to the town he was brought up in to see for himself the impact hundreds of job losses at the steelworks is having on families. P...

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)

6.6
Acting

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

2016

as Philip Cohen

5.5
Acting

A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.

You Can Never Really Know Someone

2016

as Henry

4.5
Acting

Witness a day in the life of Gretchen, a troubled woman on a quest for love.

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

2015

as Self

Acting

In this documentary, Stephen Fry tells the story behind his success, after presenting the BAFTAs for more than ten years. With an outstanding career ...

Barbados

Barbados

2015

as David

7.5
Acting

David (Michael Sheen) is a middle class guy with middle class problems, despite his lovely home and beautiful middle class wife (Radha Mitchell). His ...

7 Days in Hell

7 Days in Hell

2015

as Caspian Wint

6.5
Acting

A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015

as William Boldwood

7.0
Acting

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep ...

Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion

Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion

2015

as Self

Acting

Actor Michael Sheen goes on a personal journey to explore the reasons for political disillusionment in Wales. Walking in the footsteps of the Chartist...

War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

2014

as Narrator (voice)

9.5
Acting

The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is of...

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger

2014

as Fred Weil

6.6
Acting

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb...

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

2014

as Himself - Narrator

7.6
Acting

Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight t...

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

2014

as First Voice

6.0
Acting

An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National...

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

2013

as Charity

5.7
Acting

Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues ...

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

as Self

9.0
Acting

Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity...

Admission

Admission

2013

as Mark

5.6
Acting

Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school ...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

2012

as Aro

6.5
Acting

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in fron...

Jesus Henry Christ

Jesus Henry Christ

2012

as Dr. Slavkin O'Hara

6.2
Acting

At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in...

The Gospel of Us

The Gospel of Us

2012

as The Teacher

9.0
Acting

Film version of the 72 hour Passion play performed in Port Talbot, Wales during Easter 2011

Resistance

Resistance

2011

as Tommy Atkins

4.8
Acting

It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wa...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

2011

as Aro

6.2
Acting

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.

Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

2011

as Bill Carroll

6.0
Acting

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own ...

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris

2011

as Paul

7.5
Acting

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Heroes and Demons

Heroes and Demons

2011

7.1
Acting

Gripping thriller drama with fantastic all-star cast: Six different stories about crooks, misfits, heroes and their determination to overcome the dest...

Installing the Cast

Installing the Cast

2011

as Self

5.5
Acting

A pat-on-the-back featurette that looks at the work of the actors on TRON: Legacy.

TRON: Legacy

TRON: Legacy

2010

as Castor / Zuse

6.5
Acting

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a myste...

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

2010

as Dr. Griffiths (voice)

6.7
Acting

During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, le...

Unthinkable

Unthinkable

2010

as Steven Arthur Younger

6.8
Acting

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned...

The Special Relationship

The Special Relationship

2010

as Tony Blair

6.5
Acting

A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister sta...

My Last Five Girlfriends

My Last Five Girlfriends

2010

as No. 5 - Detective Burnam

5.4
Acting

Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, flashes back to his last five...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)

6.6
Acting

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

Harold Pinter:  A Celebration

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

2010

as Self

Acting

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...

A Child's Christmases in Wales

A Child's Christmases in Wales

2009

as Narrator (voice)

7.3
Acting

One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by ...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2009

as Aro

6.0
Acting

Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob...

The Damned United

The Damned United

2009

as Brian Clough

7.2
Acting

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to...

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

2009

as Lucian

6.5
Acting

A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret lo...

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

2008

as David Frost

7.3
Acting

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit...

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

2007

as Adam Banton

Acting

Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007

as Self

Acting

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftiet...

Music Within

Music Within

2007

as Art Honeyman

6.5
Acting

After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to...

Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

2006

as Simmons

7.5
Acting

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

Dead Long Enough

Dead Long Enough

2006

as Harry Jones

6.0
Acting

Two brothers from Wales on a stag night return to a small village in Donegal where they spent a working holiday 16 years previously. There they bump i...

HG Wells: War with the World

HG Wells: War with the World

2006

as H.G. Wells

6.5
Acting

BBC docudrama telling the story of the father of science fiction, HG Wells, and his ambition to avert mankind's headlong course towards self-destructi...

The Queen

The Queen

2006

as Tony Blair

6.9
Acting

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, fol...

The Path to Redemption

The Path to Redemption

2006

as Self

8.0
Acting

From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Interviews with the cast an...

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

2006

as Kenneth Williams

6.2
Acting

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his...

Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution

2006

as Lucian

6.6
Acting

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts...

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005

as Jeremy

6.3
Acting

The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way i...

Dirty Filthy Love

Dirty Filthy Love

2005

as Mark Furness

6.7
Acting

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

2005

as Priest

7.0
Acting

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

The Banker

The Banker

2004

as The Banker

5.8
Acting

A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

The Banker

The Banker

2004

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

Laws of Attraction

Laws of Attraction

2004

as Thorne Jamison

5.8
Acting

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

The Open Doors

The Open Doors

2004

as Framton Nuttel

6.0
Acting

The Open Doors is a short British film based on a short story 'The Open Window' by Saki (H. H. Munro) starring Michael Sheen, Charlotte Ritchie and Ch...

Timeline

Timeline

2003

as Lord Oliver

5.7
Acting

A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

2003

as Miles Maitland

6.3
Acting

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

The Deal

The Deal

2003

as Tony Blair

6.7
Acting

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the...

Underworld

Underworld

2003

as Lucian

6.8
Acting

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, ...

Heartlands

Heartlands

2003

as Colin

6.1
Acting

Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atle...

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

2002

as William Trench

6.6
Acting

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends a...

Doomwatch: Winter Angel

Doomwatch: Winter Angel

1999

as Angel

7.5
Acting

University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear faci...

Animated Epics: Beowulf

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998

as Wiglaf ( voice )

4.3
Acting

Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuri...

Wilde

Wilde

1997

as Robbie Ross

6.6
Acting

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...

Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly

1996

as Bradshaw

5.8
Acting

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Othello

Othello

1995

as Lodovico

6.4
Acting

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

N/A

Acting

Described as a contemporary psychological thriller. Plot TBA.

The Price of Admission

The Price of Admission

N/A

as Harold Sugar

Acting

Harold Sugar is a middling playwright amidst a mid-life crisis and a failing marriage. Incapable of functioning in reality, he submerges himself into ...

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

N/A

as (voice)

Acting

Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out a...

Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary

N/A

as Self

Acting

Tracks the evolution of the union between 2008 and 2024, a time that saw a failed strike authorization, a merger and the 2023 work stoppage.

The 12 Days of Christmas

N/A

as Henry Sullivan

Acting

A widower receives strange Christmas gifts from a mysterious stranger.