Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen

Actor (b. 1969)
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The ThumbScore for Michael Sheen (70.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 30 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Michael's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

30
Movies
70.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Michael Sheen’s films lower than 61% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor and political activist. 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). His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. He has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s through his roles in various biographical films. He has starred in a trilogy of films as British politician Tony Blair: the television film The Deal (2003), followed by The Queen (2006) and The Special Relationship (2010). For the role, he was nominated for both a BAFTA Award and an Emmy.

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. He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United (2009). In 2009, he appeared in two fantasy films, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. He also appeared in the science-fiction film Tron: Legacy (2010), and Midnight in Paris (2011). He directed and starred in National Theatre Wales's The Passion (2011). He also played a lead role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in 2012. In 2013, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Showtime's television drama Masters of Sex (2013–2016).

Born 1969-02-05 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK.

On ThumbScore, Michael Sheen appears in 30 films with an average audience score of 70.4%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Michael Sheen movie, ranked by audience score

Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris
2011
👍 88%
Underworld
Underworld
2003
👍 88%
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
👍 85%
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
2010
👍 84%
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
👍 81%
Passengers
Passengers
2016
👍 80%
TRON: Legacy
TRON: Legacy
2010
👍 79%
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
👍 79%
The Queen
The Queen
2006
👍 79%
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
👍 79%
The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers
2002
👍 78%
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
👍 77%
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
2010
👍 76%
Wilde
Wilde
1997
👍 71%
Dolittle
Dolittle
2020
👍 70%
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon
2008
👍 70%
Home Again
Home Again
2017
👍 69%
Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly
1996
👍 69%
Othello
Othello
1995
👍 68%
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd
2015
👍 67%
Laws of Attraction
Laws of Attraction
2004
👍 67%
Brad's Status
Brad's Status
2017
👍 64%
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
2013
👍 63%
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger
2014
👍 62%
Apostle
Apostle
2018
👍 62%
Timeline
Timeline
2003
👍 58%
Unthinkable
Unthinkable
2010
👍 55%
The Damned United
The Damned United
2009
👍 49%
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
👍 49%
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
👍 46%