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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 12. 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 times, but I would never assume to know of his inner workings, as I’ve never met the guy.
My parents instilled a love of performance in me. They’re both big fans of amateur dramatics and musicals. I began critiquing other actors’ performances at 11. I’d see other children acting on telly and think: “I can do better than that.”
I’ve always found it hard to say sorry. Increasingly I’m more motivated to do it.
Hamlet is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Feeling successful has very little to do with my career. I feel successful because I’m engaged with life, and all the relationships I have are meaningful.
Reading about yourself is a form of self-harm. I used to read reviews and my own interviews, partly because there were so few. Now it’s som
Michael Sheen
Welsh actor (born 1969)
Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor. 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). He received Olivier Awards nominations for his performances in Amadeus (1998) at the Old Vic, Look Back in Anger (1999) at the National Theatre and Caligula (2003) at the Donmar Warehouse.
Early this century Sheen began screen acting, focusing on biographical films. For writer Peter Morgan, he starred in a trilogy of films as British 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 has 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. 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 nomi Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus". Michael Sheen was forced to explain his IMDb self-searching during an appearance on Michael McIntyre's Big Show. Airing Saturday, 25 January on BBC One, the star-studded programme (which also involved Olly Murs pranking one of his biggest fans with a fake Who Do You Think You Are? episode) featured the Welsh actor as the latest victim of Send To All, which gave the eponymous host carte blanche over his phone. Naturally, McIntyre scrutinised everything he could find on it - Sheen seemingly has a habit of IMDb'ing himself - before sending a silly message to his entire contacts book. "I'm very nervous Michael. It all seemed like a very good idea when I was first asked, now it seems like a very bad idea!" admitted Sheen ahead of handing over his phone. It took no time at all for the comedian to begin busying himself on his guest's device; discovering the IMDb application amongst other things. "Mmm... IMDb. Oh you must be on that one!" he remarked. "I'll press search and see what you have... Oh... You seem to have searched for yourself!" Explaining himself, Sheen laughed: "Listen, listen, sometimes I have to look myself up all right? Because I forget what I've been in!" Read more: McIntyre wasn't done there, though, because the star's Notes app was ripe for a rummaging too. "Don't do that!" cringed Sheen as the TV presenter hovered over the icon. Coincidentally, one of his entries was a self-written biography - "award-winning actor, director and producer of stage and screen" - which led McIntyre to quip: "Sorry Michael, you're coming across as rather self-centred..." "I had to send my own bio into somewhere recently, so I had to write a bio for myself!" he pointed out, much to the amusement of his partner Anna Lundberg and her mother Ingrid, who were sat beside him.
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 by attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School instead of university. In his second year, he won the coveted Laurence Olivier Bursary for consistently outstanding performances. While Sheen was still studying, he landed a pivotal role opposite stage legend Vanessa Redgrave in Martin Sherman's "When She Danced" (1991). He left school early to make his West End debut and has been dazzling audiences and critics with his intense and passionate performances ever since. Among his most memorable roles were "Romeo" in "Romeo and Juliet", the title role in Yukio Ninagawa's 1994 Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of "Peer Gynt" and "Jimmy Porter" both in a 1994 regional staging in a 1999 London revival of "Look Back in Anger". A critic from the London Times panned the multimedia production of "Peer Gynt", but praised Sheen for his ability to express "astonishing vitality despite lifeless direction". Referring to Sheen's performance in "Look Back in Anger", Susannah Clapp of The Observer hailed him for his "luminous qualit What did you miss?
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