He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United (2009). 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. For writer Peter Morgan, he starred in a trilogy of films as UK prime minister Tony Blair: the television film The Deal in 2003, followed by The Queen (2006) and The Special Relationship (2010), earning him nominations for both a BAFTA Award and an Emmy. Sheen has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s, in particular through his roles in various biographical films. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 19, respectively.
After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool with Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). Michael Christopher Sheen OBE (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor, television producer and political activist.
