Michael sheen biography imdb database
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It can be hard to describe who I am at times. It’s very messy being an actor, especially when you play lots of “real” people. I find bits of my personality that I can relate to Kenneth Williamsor Brian Clough or anyone else I’ve played.
I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It’s not something I’m pleased about and it doesn’t happen very often, but it’s very much there.
Being funny can get you out of trouble. I was taller than my mother by the time I was She’s 4ft 11 and a half inches. If she told me off I would pick her up and put her outside. She’d be shouting at me through the letterbox and laughing so much she couldn’t carry on being angry at me.
I have no idea what Tony Blairis really like. I’ve played him three t
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Even though he had burned up the London scen for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" bygd American audiences until his critically-acclaimed vända as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Broadway revival of "Amadeus".
Sheen was born in Newport, Wales, the only son of Irene (Thomas) and Meyrick Sheen. The charming, curly-haired actor grew up a middle-class boy in the working-class town of Port Talbot, Wales. Although his parents worked in personnel, they shared with their son a deep appreciation for acting, with Meyrick Sheen enjoying some success later in life as a Jack Nicholson impersonator.
As a young man, Michael Sheen turned down the opportunity to pursue a possible professional football career, opting to follow in the footsteps of Daniel Day-Lewis and Patrick Stewart bygd attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School instead of university. In his second year, he won the coveted Laurence Olivier Bursary for consi
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Michael Sheen
Welsh actor (born )
Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February )[1] is a Welsh actor. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the s with stage roles in Romeo and Juliet (), Don't Fool with Love (), Peer Gynt (), The Seagull (), The Homecoming (), and Henry V (). He received Olivier Awards nominations for his performances in Amadeus () at the Old Vic, Look Back in Anger () at the National Theatre and Caligula () at the Donmar Warehouse.
Early this century Sheen began screen acting, focusing on biographical films.[2] For writer Peter Morgan, he starred in a trilogy of films as British prime minister Tony Blair—the television film The Deal in , The Queen (), and The Special Relationship ()—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 Fantabulosa!, an