Michael Sheen is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on February 5, 1969 in Newport, Wales. He is best known for his roles in Frost/Nixon as Known for his roles as Tony Blair in The Queen and David Frost in Frost/Nixon. He also appeared in the 1992 stage adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and played a role in the 2010 film, The Special Relationship. In 2013, he began playing Dr. William Masters on the Showtime series Masters of Sex. and David Frost. He was also part of the 1992 stage adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and a role in The Special Relationship (2010). He began his career as Dr. William Masters in the Showtime series Masters of Sex.
He stars with Lizzy Cplan in the Showtime drama, Masters of Sex.
Sheen was raised in a theatrical family, his parents both being involved in local amateur operatics and musicals and, later in life, his father worked as a part-time professional Jack Nicholson lookalike. In his teenage years, Sheen was involved with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and, later, the National Youth Theatre of Wales. “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.” 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.” 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. He considered studying English at university but instead decided to attend drama school. He moved to London in 1988 to train as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), having spent the previous year working in a Welsh fast-food restaurant called Burger Master to earn money. Sheen was granted the Laurence Olivier Bursary by the Society of London Theatre in his second year at RADA. He graduated in 1991 with a BA in Acting.
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.” 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. 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.” Milton Shulman of the Evening Standard praised an “excellent” performance while The Observer wrote of “a notable West End debut”. In 1992, Sheen’s performance in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange received a MEN Theatre Award nomination and led theatre critic Michael Coveney to declare him “the most exciting young actor of his generation … a volatile, electrifying and technically fearless performer”. 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. and was described by The Independent as “quite thrilling”. Also in 1993, Sheen appeared in the world premiere of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre and made his television debut in the 1993 BBC mini-series Gallowglass.
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