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  • Michael Sheen was introduced to British television viewers under the wrong name on the 14th of April 2020. ITV was broadcasting the second instalment of its drama Quiz, in which he played Chris Tarrant. The continuity announcer called him Martin Sheen, a different actor. The Welsh actor answered by changing his Twitter handle to Martin Sheen.

    Quiz was one more borrowed identity in a career spent becoming other people. Sheen has played political leaders, television broadcasters and supernatural creatures, and critics have often noticed how closely he studies a real person's habits. Yet the most surprising turn in his story is not a role. A man from the steel town of Port Talbot has spent recent years pouring his fame and his own money into causes across Wales.

    Broadway, Hollywood and a Welsh steel town all sit inside one biography, and three questions follow from that. How does an actor from a modest background reach the biggest stages in the world? Why does he keep choosing to play real people? And why would a successful performer decide that his success should be spent on strangers and on a national theatre for his country?

  • Michael Christopher Sheen was born on the 5th of February 1969 in Newport, Wales. His mother Irene was a secretary, and his father Meyrick was a personnel manager at the British Steel Corporation. The surname Sheen comes from an Irish ancestor, his great-great-great grandfather Edward Sheehan, who left Waterford for Wales in 1850 with his wife, Catherine Hickey. When Michael was five, the family moved to Wallasey for work. Three years later they settled in his parents' home town of Port Talbot.

    At the age of 12, Sheen was a keen footballer whom Arsenal wanted for its youth team. His family was unwilling to relocate to London, so the offer went nowhere. He later said he was grateful for the decision, because the chances of building a professional football career were slight.

    The theatre was already part of the household. His parents were both involved in local amateur operatics and musicals. His father later worked part time as a professional Jack Nicholson lookalike, a job that took him across the world and into after-dinner speaking. As a teenager Sheen joined the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and then the National Youth Theatre of Wales. He took inspiration from the performances of Laurence Olivier and the writings of the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan.

    In 1984, at the age of 15, Sheen went for a walk in Laugharne with his friend Charles Uzzell-Edwards and Charles's father, John Uzzell Edwards. They spotted an iron and steel gate stuck in the mud below the Dylan Thomas Boathouse. It had once led to the boathouse terrace. The three dug it out, and it stayed in the Uzzell-Edwards family garden until Charles auctioned it in 2014 at an event marking 100 years since Thomas's birth.

    Sheen studied at Blaenbaglan Primary School, Glan Afan Comprehensive School and Neath Port Talbot College, where he took A-levels in English, drama and sociology. He considered reading English at university but chose drama school instead. After a year earning money at a Welsh fast-food restaurant called Burger Master, he moved to London in 1988 to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In his second year the Society of London Theatre granted him the Laurence Olivier Bursary, and he graduated in 1991 with a BA in Acting. That bursary was only the first of many honours to carry the name of the actor he admired, because Olivier Award nominations would follow for years.

  • In 1991, still in his third and final year at RADA, Sheen won his first professional role in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre. He described it as a big break. One day he was in a movement class, and the next he was at a read-through with Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour. The Observer wrote of a notable West End debut. Looking back, Sheen has said he will always feel "slightly more at home" on stage, and he explained why: "You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you."

    After his 1992 Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange, the critic Michael Coveney called him "the most exciting young actor of his generation... a volatile, electrifying and technically fearless performer". In 1994 he played Peer Gynt in a Yukio Ninagawa production that travelled to Oslo, Tokyo and London's Barbican Centre. The Independent reported that the Norwegian press was "grudgingly captivated by the mercurial Welsh boyo".

    Sheen also built things for other people. In 1991 he co-founded the Thin Language Theatre Company to further Welsh theatre. In early 1998 he formed a production company called The Foundry with Helen McCrory and Robert Delamere, aimed at emerging playwrights. Its production In a Little World of Our Own at the Donmar Warehouse gave Colin Farrell his West End debut. In 1995, encouraged by Thelma Holt, Sheen both directed and starred in The Dresser at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

    The title role in Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 drew praise from The Times for "a blisteringly intelligent performance". Then came Mozart in Amadeus, staged at the Old Vic in 1998 under director Peter Hall and later moved to the Music Box on Broadway. Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote that watching Sheen made you appreciate where the term star came from, calling him "so luminous it's scary!" Sheen earned an Olivier nomination and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for it.

    In 1999 he played Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre. By 2003 he called it "the most enjoyable thing I've ever done... everything came together". Caligula followed at the Donmar Warehouse in 2003, directed by Michael Grandage. It was the first of only three stage appearances in the 2000s, because his young daughter now lived in Los Angeles. The Guardian recalled a moment when he attacked the court poet with a single leap across a chair and table. Sheen won an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award.

    In late 2011 and early 2012 he played Hamlet at the Young Vic, a role he had first explored in a 1999 BBC Radio 3 production. After Peter Hall and Michael Grandage had each been floated as director, Sheen asked Ian Rickson. Rickson set it in the secure wing of a psychiatric hospital, with original music by PJ Harvey. The Times found Sheen "unbearably moving", though The Daily Telegraph thought the staging "mindlessly modish".

    His stage work took on a political edge in 2024, when he played Aneurin Bevan in Nye, written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris. It ran at the Royal National Theatre from the 24th of February until the 11th of May, then at the Wales Millennium Centre. The run sold out, and he brought it back in 2025.

  • The Deal was filmed in 2003 while Sheen was playing Caligula on stage every night, and the overlap shaped his view of casting. "It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play, you often end up playing leaders," he said. The Channel 4 film dramatised the Granita pact between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before the 1994 Labour Party leadership election. It was his first collaboration with the writer Peter Morgan. Director Stephen Frears cast him because "he was in Mary Reilly and I knew he was brilliant."

    The Queen, released in 2006, brought him international attention. It followed the clash between the royal family and the newly appointed Prime Minister after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. Sheen said that the longer he worked on Blair, the less opinion he had of him. Watching Blair on television, he said, felt like "a cross between a family member, a friend and seeing a really old embarrassing video of yourself." The role earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

    In 2010 the third part of the Blair trilogy, The Special Relationship, examined the bond between the United States and Britain in the era of Blair and Bill Clinton. It earned Sheen an Emmy nomination. It was his sixth project with Morgan, and both men have said they will not work together again "for the foreseeable future".

    For the 2006 BBC Four film Fantabulosa!, Sheen played the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams. He lost two and a half stone, studied archive footage and read Williams' published diaries. He has said he is "fascinated by finding the private side of the public face". The Observer called the result a tour-de-force, and he won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor.

    Frost/Nixon began on stage in 2006, at the Donmar Warehouse, then the Gielgud Theatre and Broadway's Jacobs Theatre. Morgan wrote it, Grandage directed, and Frank Langella co-starred. Sheen took the role of the broadcaster David Frost as a favour to friends and "never thought it was going anywhere". For the 2008 film of the Nixon Interviews of 1977, Morgan reportedly told the studios he would only release the rights to someone who would cast Sheen. Frost himself later called the performance "a wonderful performance". Sheen received the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards in 2008.

    In 2009 he played the football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United, directed by Tom Hooper. The film centred on Clough's disastrous 44-day spell managing Leeds United and was Sheen's fifth collaboration with Morgan. Sheen has named Clough the real-life character he most enjoyed playing. Variety said the performance got the tics right but also carved a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth.

    The line of impersonations reaches a royal in A Very Royal Scandal, in which Sheen plays Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Prime Video released the series on the 19th of September 2024.

  • In Underworld in 2003 Sheen played the werewolf leader Lucian, and in 2009 he returned to the part in the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. His reason for taking such roles is simple. "My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself," he said. The New York Times called him the film's greatest asset.

    Also in 2009 he joined The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Aro, a mind-reading member of the Italian Volturi vampires. Rolling Stone wrote that late in the film "a real actor" arrives and the young cast can almost be heard thinking, "Is that acting? It looks hard." He made a cameo in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 in 2011 and returned as Aro in the final instalment in 2012.

    Tron: Legacy in 2010 gave him a cane-swishing nightclub owner with a David Bowie flavour. "I was paid to show off basically," Sheen has said. The same year he voiced the White Rabbit, Nivens McTwisp, in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and he reprised the role in 2016. His four-episode run on 30 Rock as Wesley Snipes, a love interest for Tina Fey's Liz Lemon, drew Fey's praise. She said he was "so funny and delightful to work with".

    In 2011 he lent his voice to House, the mysterious villain of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife", written by his friend Neil Gaiman. That year he also appeared in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which opened the Cannes Film Festival and became Allen's highest-grossing film to that date. Allen said Sheen had to play the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual and the pedant, and "nailed it from the start".

    From 2013 to 2016 Sheen starred in and produced Showtime's Masters of Sex, playing the sexuality researcher Masters opposite Lizzy Caplan as Johnson. The series followed them from a Midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine. David Sims of The Atlantic called his portrayal intensely honest and unsympathetic. Sheen received a Golden Globe nomination in late 2013.

    In May 2019 Sheen joined David Tennant in Good Omens, based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, playing Aziraphale. From September 2019 to May 2021 he played an incarcerated serial killer surgeon, Martin Whitly, in Fox's Prodigal Son. In June 2020 he and Tennant made Staged, a six-part lockdown comedy shot over video conferencing in which he played himself. A second series of eight episodes began in January 2021, and a third of six episodes aired on the 14th of November 2022. In June 2023 he starred in BBC One's Best Interests, which won him Best Actor in International Competition at Series Mania.

    Good Omens ran a second series from the 28th of July 2023 and ends with a 90-minute finale released on the 13th of May 2026.

  • In 2011 the town of Port Talbot hosted The Passion, a 72-hour secular passion play for National Theatre Wales. Sheen starred in it and served as creative director. A professional cast was joined by over one thousand local amateurs, and as many volunteers again helped in the months of preparation. The event inspired a BBC documentary and The Gospel of Us, a film by Dave McKean. Sheen has called it "the most meaningful experience" of his career, and The Observer ranked it among the outstanding theatrical events of the decade.

    The Independent's critic described it as "the most extraordinary piece of community-specific theatre I've ever beheld". Sheen and co-director Bill Mitchell were jointly named Best Director at the Theatre Awards UK in 2011. In 2013 Sheen won Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs for the production.

    On the 10th of January 2025, Sheen announced a new national theatre for Wales. National Theatre Wales had been forced to close after its funding of £1.6m from the Arts Council of Wales was cut. Sheen named the replacement Welsh National Theatre, committed to fund it personally from the outset and took the role of artistic director. The old company's board asked the Arts Council to transfer £200,000 of its remaining £226,000 Transition Fund to the new one.

    On the 2nd of April 2025 the company revealed its first season. One play was Thornton Wilder's Our Town told from a Welsh perspective, with Sheen as the Stage Manager. The other was Owain & Henry by Gary Owen, about Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion against Henry IV of England in the 15th century, with Sheen as Glyndŵr. In June 2025 the company announced its first headquarters, in Swansea's civic centre overlooking Swansea Bay, where Sheen's theatrical journey began.

    Sheen also founded Welsh Net, a talent-scouting network across Wales for amateur and professional performers. On the 22nd of September 2025, BBC Studios agreed to fund a team of scouts. Matthew Rhys backed the cause by returning to the Welsh stage in Playing Burton, from the 16th to the 26th of November 2025, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Richard Burton's birth.

    On the 8th of January 2026, Sheen topped The Stage 100 power list for putting Wales back on the theatre map in 2025. Our Town toured from the 16th of January to the 28th of March 2026, stopping at Swansea Grand Theatre, Venue Cymru, Theatr Clwyd and the Rose Theatre, and was well received. The Arts Council awarded £299,829 for Owain & Henry on the 31st of March 2026.

    A revival of Amadeus was announced on the 23rd of April 2026, with Sheen as Salieri and Callum Scott Howells as Mozart. Sheen had played Salieri before, in a production at the Sydney Opera House in December 2022, which earned him Best Performer in a Play at the 2023 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards.

    The second season, revealed on the 27th of May 2026, pairs Samuel Beckett's Rockaby with Not I and Footfalls, starring Dame Siân Phillips and directed by Richard Beecham. It adds Frank Vickery's comedy A Night on the Tiles and a tour of Katie Payne's My Mix(ed up) Tape to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2027.

  • In 2019 Sheen sold his own houses to rescue the Homeless World Cup in Cardiff, after £2,000,000 of its funding fell through at the last minute. The following year he raised more than £33,000 to help Welsh households flooded in the wake of Storm Dennis. In 2021 he put £250,000 of his own money into Mab Gwalia, meaning Sons of Wales, a fund for community projects. It supports 16 projects, among them Mothers Matter, GROW Cymru, Street Football Wales and a drama student scholarship in partnership with the Manic Street Preachers.

    That scholarship gives up to £15,000 to support up to three eligible students each academic year. "Opportunity should not only be available to those who can afford it," Sheen said. He also pledged £50,000 over five years to a bursary for Welsh undergraduates at Jesus College, Oxford.

    In December 2021 he announced that all his future earnings would go to charity, calling himself a "not-for-profit actor". The same year he co-founded A Writing Chance for new writers from working-class and lower-income backgrounds. Its voices were introduced on the BBC Radio Wales podcast Michael Sheen: Margins to Mainstream. In May 2025 the project grew into The Bee, a literary magazine and online platform.

    Debt became his most visible cause. In 2017 Sheen founded the End High Cost Credit Alliance, which works to promote more affordable ways to borrow money. By October 2024 it was reported that he had used his own money to write off personal debts for hundreds of people in South Wales. The full story aired on the 10th of March 2025 in Channel 4's Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway.

    The documentary showed how Sheen spent two years secretly setting up a debt acquisition company. With £100,000 of his own money, he cleared £1,000,000 of debt for 900 people. The programme was well received, and his scheme was called "Robin Hood-like". Sheen continues to call for a Fair Banking Act, and on the 20th of May 2025 Time named him among its 100 most influential people in philanthropy.

    Smaller gifts add up too. In February 2024 he donated £5,000 to help a young boy in Wrexham with a rare genetic condition called TUBA1A. In March he gave another £5,000 to the struggling club FC United of Wrexham. His fundraising with The White Curl had raised over £110,000 for Welsh causes by 2023.

    On the 5th of June 2025 Puffin published his debut picture book, A Home for Spark the Dragon, about a character who loses their home. For every hardback sold in the UK and Ireland, £1 goes to the charity Shelter, with 50p from each paperback.

  • On the 18th of October 2013, Sheen published a full-page open letter in the South Wales Argus condemning the "absurd and tragic" demolition of the Chartist Mural in Newport. A few weeks later, council leader Bob Bright invited him to advise a committee on replacing it. On the 4th of November 2019, exactly 180 years after the Newport Rising, a replica of the mural was unveiled. In 2015 he made Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion for BBC Cymru Wales, retracing the walk of 20,000 Chartists into Newport.

    On the 1st of March 2015, Sheen spoke at the People's March for the NHS in Tredegar, the birthplace of the NHS founder Aneurin Bevan. His speech opposed privatisation and austerity cuts, and clips of it went viral. He told BBC News he had not known it was being filmed. "It was a cold and very wet day," he said, adding that he belonged to no political party.

    On the 21st of December 2015, he started a Change.org petition against housing homeless teenagers in unsuitable bed and breakfast accommodation. It gathered more than 115,000 signatures. He presented the issue to the minister Lesley Griffiths, and in March 2016 the Welsh Government issued stricter guidance to local authorities. In July 2022 he returned to the issue in a BBC Wales documentary on the care system, and found that homeless young people were still staying in such places.

    The 2016 BBC One Wales documentary Michael Sheen: The Fight for My Steel Town saw him return to Port Talbot to see how hundreds of lost steelworks jobs affected families. It won a BAFTA Cymru for News and Current Affairs.

    On the 16th of November 2017, Sheen gave the Annual Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture in Merthyr, taking up the question "Who speaks for Wales?" He raised Brexit, the decline of local journalism and PCB pollution near Brofiscin Quarry, reported by the researcher Douglas Gowan. Sheen recorded a seven-hour interview with Gowan as evidence. In 2024 he joined the BBC Radio 4 podcast Buried: The Last Witness, which investigated chemical waste in South Wales. The Guardian named it the third best podcast of 2024.

    In September 2022, a motivational speech for the Wales national football team on A League of Their Own went viral. He was then invited into the Welsh camp to give a team talk to coach Rob Page and the players before the FIFA World Cup.

    In 2020, in an online interview with Owen Jones, Sheen revealed that he had handed back the OBE he received in the 2009 New Year Honours. He said he would otherwise be a hypocrite when giving a lecture about the relationship between Wales and the British state. Anyone who gives up an honour still legally holds it unless the monarch annuls it. In 2026 he said he supported Plaid Cymru in the Senedd election.

    On the 16th of March 2026 it was announced that Sheen would take over hosting the quiz show House of Games from Richard Osman.

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Common questions

Who is Michael Sheen?

Michael Sheen is a Welsh actor born on the 5th of February 1969 in Newport, Wales. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduated in 1991 and became known for stage work and for playing real people such as Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough.

What is Michael Sheen best known for?

Michael Sheen is best known for playing Tony Blair in The Deal, The Queen and The Special Relationship, David Frost in Frost/Nixon and Brian Clough in The Damned United. He also played Aro in The Twilight Saga and Aziraphale in Good Omens.

Where did Michael Sheen grow up?

Michael Sheen grew up mainly in Port Talbot, Wales, where his family settled when he was about eight. His father worked as a personnel manager for the British Steel Corporation.

What is the Welsh National Theatre that Michael Sheen founded?

Welsh National Theatre is a company Michael Sheen announced on the 10th of January 2025 after National Theatre Wales closed following funding cuts. He personally funded it from the outset and serves as artistic director.

How did Michael Sheen clear debt for people in South Wales?

Michael Sheen cleared £1,000,000 of debt for 900 people in South Wales using £100,000 of his own money. He spent two years secretly setting up a debt acquisition company, shown in Channel 4's documentary Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway on the 10th of March 2025.

Why does Michael Sheen call himself a not-for-profit actor?

In December 2021 Michael Sheen announced that he would give all of his future earnings to charities. He described himself as a not-for-profit actor as a result.

Did Michael Sheen give back his OBE?

Michael Sheen was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2020 he revealed that he had handed the medal back, though anyone who renounces an honour legally holds it unless the monarch annuls it.

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  130. 195The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas BoxR. Kurt Osenlund — 7 January 2014
  131. 197Film Review: 'Kill the Messenger'Andrew Barker — 26 September 2014
  132. 201MagazineFar From the Madding CrowdPeter Travers — 1 May 2015
  133. 206Comedy Bang! Bang! Review: "Michael Sheen"Ross Bonaime — 16 May 2015
  134. 208'The Spoils Before Dying': TV ReviewKeith Uhlich — 7 July 2015
  135. 211TV Review: 'The Spoils Before Dying'Brian Lowry — 7 July 2015
  136. 215'7 Days in Hell': SXSW ReviewJohn DeFore — 13 March 2015
  137. 222Masters of Sex Jumps into the Free Love EraDavid Sims — 12 July 2014
  138. 223Masters of Sex: "Pilot"Sonia Saraiya — 29 September 2013
  139. 224'Masters of Sex' Season Premiere Recap: Endless BummerSean T. Collins — 7 December 2015
  140. 225'Masters of Sex' Season 3: TV ReviewTim Goodman — 7 December 2015
  141. 226Golden Globes 2014: who are the British nominees to watch?Ellie Walker-Arnott — 12 January 2014
  142. 227VideoMasters of Sex29 September 2013
  143. 228'Nocturnal Animals': Venice ReviewDavid Rooney — 2 September 2016
  144. 240Michael Sheen To Star In Fox Drama Pilot 'Prodigal Son'Denise Petski et al. — 5 March 2019
  145. 245MagazineMichael Sheen to star in Amadeus at SOHJo Litson — 12 July 2022
  146. 249'Good Omens' Renewed For Season 2 At AmazonPeter White — 29 June 2021
  147. 255Watch: First look at Michael Sheen in 'Nye' trailerStephen Price — 14 February 2024
  148. 257Nye
  149. 260Nye
  150. 270NewsThe 20 best podcasts of 2024Hannah J. Davies — 24 December 2024
  151. 273Shortlists List - New York FestivalsNew York Festivals Radio Awards
  152. 276Tutti i vincitori dei DIG Awards 2025Danilo Ferrara — 2025-09-27
  153. 279Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debtsEleri Griffiths — 5 March 2025
  154. 292Michael Sheen to fund new national theatre for WalesLorna Prichard — 10 January 2025
  155. 293Michael Sheen launches the Welsh National TheatreDavid Owens — 10 January 2025
  156. 318This is a Triumphant Debut for Welsh National TheatreAdam Somerset — 27 January 2026
  157. 320UK Theatre Awards 2026: full list of winners West End TheatreMarianne Calnan-Holland — 2026-10-13
  158. 329BookA Home for Spark the DragonMichael Sheen et al. — 5 June 2025
  159. 335Michael Sheen ambassador to Keep Wales TidyLorna Prichard — 12 June 2012
  160. 343Robbie Williams, Michael Sheen ('Soccer Aid')Alex Fletcher — 3 June 2010
  161. 348NewsWhy Paddington Bear Statues Have Taken Over LondonLilit Marcus — 24 November 2014
  162. 350NewsShop, do good and feel even better this Social SaturdayMisha Frost — 11 October 2017
  163. 362Home
  164. 377I've #justsponsored Wrexham Police FC, who's fundraising for Just4Children on @JustGiving. Donate nowMichael Sheen — 26 February 2024
  165. 391The Bee4 May 2025
  166. 396MagazineTIME100 Philanthropy: Michael SheenAyesha Javed — 20 May 2025
  167. 407A new Chartist mural has been unveiled in NewportJoshua Knapman — 4 November 2019
  168. 408Michael Sheen's Valleys RebellionSian Roderick — Cwmni Da, BBC Cymru Wales — 24 February 2015
  169. 428VideoAneurin Bevan Lecture: Michael Sheen Hay Festival 2017Bevan Commission — 15 September 2017
  170. 430Michael Sheen3 June 2017
  171. 431VideoAnnual Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture 2017 Michael SheenLearning and Work Institute Wales — 18 November 2017
  172. 435NewsMonsanto dumped toxic waste in UKJohn Vidal — 12 February 2007
  173. 442VideoMichael Sheen speaks at #March4Women 2018CARE International UK — 8 March 2018
  174. 453Campaign to devolve the Crown Estate to Wales launchedStephen Price — 20 January 2024
  175. 456How Michael Sheen uncovered a toxic farming legacyPatricia Nicol — 29 June 2024
  176. 464Michael Sheen: Debts for people across south Wales wiped by actorCharlie Buckland et al. — 10 March 2025
  177. 474NewsHappy discoveries intrigue KateRob Driscoll — 21 December 2001
  178. 475NewsKate Beckinsale on her gritty new rolesChrissey Illey — 2 September 2009
  179. 476An Interview with Kate BeckinsaleSteve Head — 10 September 2003
  180. 480Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen SplitAndrea Billups — 27 February 2013
  181. 489Swans can go all the way in cup, says Michael SheenSwansea City AFC — 16 March 2018
  182. 497200616 December 2018
  183. 507Variety Award: Michael SheenLawrence Christon — 20 November 2008
  184. 509Satellite Awards: Complete Winners ListSteve Pond — 16 February 2015
  185. 516Critics' Choice Television Awards announce winnersLisa Respers France — 20 June 2014
  186. 517NewsMcKellen wins Variety Club award15 November 2009
  187. 518VideoShowbiz Variety Club Awards 2009TV Time Machine — 14 January 2022
  188. 524YOUR 2024 WINNERS13 February 2024
  189. 531BookLa Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume OnePhilip Pullman — 2017-10-19
  190. 532VideoThe British Book Awards 2018The Bookseller — 2018-05-30
  191. 540'Milkman' Audiobook Wins 2019 CAMEO Awards USAPorter Anderson — 2019-05-31
  192. 545Michael Sheen OBEGovernment of Wales — 13 September 2017
  193. 546VideoSt David Awards 2015 Finalist - Michael SheenWelsh Government / Llywodraeth Cymru — 12 March 2015
  194. 547VideoAll about the St David Awards 2015 / Popeth ynghylch Gwobrau Dewi Sant 2015Welsh Government / Llywodraeth Cymru — 11 June 2015
  195. 550Michael Sheen to receive Inspiration AwardKaren Price — 5 November 2016
  196. 554WHA Acceptance speech: Deleted ScenesMichael Sheen — 16 November 2019
  197. 556VideoMichael Sheen Has the World's Best BeardThe Late Late Show with James Corden — 8 January 2021
  198. 561VideoCommunity Foundation Wales Philanthropy Award 2024 winner - Michael SheenCommunity Foundation Wales — 2024-11-28
  199. 564NewsNew Years Honours List31 December 2008
  200. 565Michael Sheen returned OBE to air views on royal familyKevin Rawlinson — 29 December 2020
  201. 566Having honours taken away (forfeiture)Cabinet Office — 27 December 2017
  202. 574NewsHonorary Fellowships 2019Cardiff University — 15 July 2019
  203. 581Epic song title from Stay Voiceless - 'Those kids have no idea whatsoever of what went on at Stalingrad'.Michael Sheen — 24 April 2016
  204. 583VideoTom Rosenthal - Flourishing (Official Video)Tom Rosenthal — 2020-09-20
  205. 587VideoThe Barry Horns - Cymru RyddBarry Horns — 2021-06-04
  206. 591VideoMichael SheenAvalon Kane - Topic — 2025-06-19
  207. 593BookStrangers on a Train (Radio Collection)BBC Audiobooks — 5 March 2004
  208. 596NewsTroy: this time it's personalRobert Hanks — 28 November 1998
  209. 602VideoSalmon Fishing in YemenBBC — 22 February 2007

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