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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway
2025
as Self
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
2025
Producer
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
2025
as Self
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
2024
as Self - Audience Member
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
2024
as Narrator (voice)
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
2024
as Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
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
2024
as Self - Interviewed Guest
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
2024
as Arthur (character's voice)
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
2023
as Self
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
2023
as Self/Narrator
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
2023
as Dylan Thomas (voice)
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
2023
as Narrator (voice)
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
2022
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
2022
'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
2021
as Self
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
2021
as Tony Towers
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
2021
as Owain Jenkins
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
2020
as Sigmund Freud
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
2020
as Francis Hardy
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
2020
as Aziraphale (voice)
Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dolittle
2020
as Dr. Blair Müdfly
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
2019
as Self
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
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
2018
as The Bat
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakab...

Apostle
2018
as Malcolm Howe
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
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
2017
as Craig Fisher
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
2017
as Austen Bloom
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
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
2017
as Carl Flossy
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
2016
as Arthur
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
2016
as Carlos Holt
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
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
2016
as Self
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
2016
as Presenter - Narrator
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
2016
as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
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
2016
as Philip Cohen
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
Witness a day in the life of Gretchen, a troubled woman on a quest for love.

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
2015
as Self
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
2015
as David
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
2015
as Caspian Wint
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
2015
as William Boldwood
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
2015
as Self
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)
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
2014
as Fred Weil
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
2014
as Himself - Narrator
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
2014
as First Voice
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
2013
as Charity
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
2013
as Self
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
2013
as Mark
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
2012
as Aro
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
2012
as Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
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
2012
as The Teacher
Film version of the 72 hour Passion play performed in Port Talbot, Wales during Easter 2011

Resistance
2011
as Tommy Atkins
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
2011
as Aro
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.

Beautiful Boy
2011
as Bill Carroll
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
2011
as Paul
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
2011
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
2011
as Self
A pat-on-the-back featurette that looks at the work of the actors on TRON: Legacy.

TRON: Legacy
2010
as Castor / Zuse
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
2010
as Dr. Griffiths (voice)
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
2010
as Steven Arthur Younger
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
2010
as Tony Blair
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
2010
as No. 5 - Detective Burnam
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
2010
as Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
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
2010
as Self
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
2009
as Narrator (voice)
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
2009
as Aro
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
2009
as Brian Clough
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
2009
as Lucian
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
2008
as David Frost
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
2007
as Adam Banton
Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
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
2007
as Art Honeyman
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
2006
as Simmons
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
2006
as Harry Jones
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
2006
as H.G. Wells
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
2006
as Tony Blair
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
2006
as Self
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!
2006
as Kenneth Williams
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
2006
as Lucian
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
2005
as Jeremy
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
2005
as Mark Furness
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
2005
as Priest
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

The Banker
2004
as The Banker
A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

The Banker
2004
Executive Producer
A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

Laws of Attraction
2004
as Thorne Jamison
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

The Open Doors
2004
as Framton Nuttel
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
2003
as Lord Oliver
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
2003
as Miles Maitland
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
2003
as Tony Blair
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
2003
as Lucian
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
2003
as Colin
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
2002
as William Trench
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
1999
as Angel
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
1998
as Wiglaf ( voice )
Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuri...

Wilde
1997
as Robbie Ross
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
1996
as Bradshaw
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Othello
1995
as Lodovico
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
Described as a contemporary psychological thriller. Plot TBA.

The Price of Admission
N/A
as Harold Sugar
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
N/A
as (voice)
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
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
A widower receives strange Christmas gifts from a mysterious stranger.