Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen is one of the few actors who has repeated his role in two different titles that have nothing to do with each other. This character is someone of flesh and blood, something more than usual, both in film and on television. What is no longer so important is that he is a contemporary character of the actor. It would be interesting to talk at length with Tony Blair about Michael Sheen, the man who has played him masterfully on two occasions. The culprit for turning Sheen into Blair has been Stephen Frears , a filmmaker who gave him the opportunity to give two of the best performances of his career. Who is also a key piece in his filmography is Peter Morgan , screenwriter and playwright of The Queen and The Challenge. Frost vs. Nixon. Playing another real character –journalist David Frost–, Sheen has completed another of his best works.

Michael Sheen was born on February 5, 1969 in Wales. He comes from a family closely linked to the theater, where actors mix with lovers of this art. Thus, his parents instilled in him this interest and admiration for the stage since he was little. With this background, it is not surprising that as a child, Michael was part of a theater company. However, in his youth nothing presaged that he was going to be an actor. He loved acting, but what really “obsessed” him, as he himself admits, was football. He began studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School and little by little sport gave way to theater. Professional football was left behind when Sheen realized that acting was what he really wanted to do. On the stage he reaped some success,

His screen debut was as the lead in the television production Gallowglass . Cinema came two years later, in the form of Ludovico in Othello starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kenneth Branagh . Beginning his career in film and television, he dedicated himself to combining these works with his life on stage, as well as with the projects that took him away from home to take him to the United States. In the movie mecca he shot movies like The Secret of Mary Reilly or great action titles like the Underworld saga . Michael Sheen has a very special memory of this vampire series, whose latest installment is about to be released. It stars Kate Beckinsale, who was his girlfriend and mother of his daughter Lily Mo Sheen. The three coincided in Underworld: Evolution (2006); Kate playing the protagonist, the great vampire warrior Selene, Michael playing the werewolf Lucian, and little Lily as the girl version of Selene. Michael fondly remembers the moment the three of them met in the same movie, seven years after their only daughter was born.

The supporting role in the Underworld saga is not comparable to other smaller roles he has played in commercial titles such as Kingdom of Heaven (2005) or Blood Diamond (2006). But by then he had shown his good work as an actor on the small screen in The Deal (2003). Stephen Frears offered him the role of Tony Blair in the recreation of the internal struggle between him and Gordon Brown to become the head of the Labor Party. Frears must have been more than satisfied with Sheen’s great work, because three years later he gave him the opportunity to repeat the character in The Queen .. On this occasion, the actor had to embody the already British Prime Minister, in the hours after the death of Princess Diana. The great performances of Sheen and Helen Mirren gave the audience brilliant moments, such as the first meeting between the two characters at Buckingham Palace.

Having amply demonstrated his ability to play a high political office, his latest project turns the tables on him, despite the fact that he once again embodies a real character. Michael Sheen becomes David Frost, a journalist in charge of interviewing the resigned President of the United States Richard Nixon. Frank Langella and Sheen triumphed on stage with their respective characters, whom they have been able to reincarnate perfectly on the big screen. The challenge. Frost vs. Nixon hits theaters shortly before Underworld: Rise of the Lycans . The Damned United is also pending release, a film that has given him the opportunity to return to the world of his beloved football, as he has played a Leeds United coach. Among his immediate plans is the filming of the psychological thriller Unthinkable , along with Samuel L. Jackson, and the new version that Tim Burton is preparing about Alice in Wonderland , where he will be the Chesire Cat.