Michael Sheen

Date of Birth:

05-Feb-1969

Nationality:

Andorra

Profession:

Actor

Michael Christopher Sheen is a well-known Welsh actor famous for his work in both the production and film categories. In the early years of his career, he worked harder on the theater as he felt "at home" on stage than on the film stage. He is best known for his excellent performances in plays such as 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Don't Talk About Love,' 'Peer Gynt,' 'Seagull,' 'Homecoming,' and 'Henry V.' saying 'Hamlet.' Theater critic Michael Coveney has described him as the most entertaining actor of his generation ... a versatile, passionate and unprofessional actor. He was nominated for the 'Olivier Awards' for his work at' Amadeus, '' Caligula, '' Look back at Anger, and "Frost / Nixon." Director Sam Mendes described him as a "stage creature" and said his talent was his Welsh roots. He is best known as a screenwriter since 2000, performing several biopics. He played British politician Tony Blair in the television film 'The Deal,' which was nominated for 'BAFTA' and 'Emmy'. He was also nominated for 'BAFTA' for his performance in 'Fantabulosa!' In addition to participating, he directed the play 'The Passion,' and co-founded a company called 'The Thry Language Theater Company.' a manufacturing company, to promote the work of emerging toys.

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Having said that, what I think we found, in doing the show, and in life, generally, is that the more you try to separate sex from everything else, it's impossible. You can't. The act of observation affects the actual experiment, and we see that in this.

We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.

'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.