When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring big produc…
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Why Michael Sheen put his money on the line for new Welsh national theatre ○
The actor discusses spearheading the Welsh National Theatre and starring in its first production.
53 days ago
Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026 ⊕
Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage
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Lyra’s last story – exclusive extract from Philip Pullman’s final installment in The Book of Dust trilogy ⊕
Thirty years ago, The Northern Lights introduced the world to Lyra Silvertongue. Now, Pullman completes her story in The Rose Field – plus listen to an audiobook extract read by Michael Sheen
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6 months ago
Michael Sheen says prospects for actors from poorer backgrounds ‘quite scary’ ○
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Bad Omens star tells Edinburgh TV Festival audience of need for more support for under privileged
Michael Sheen has warned the pathways that helped him break into acting have all but collapsed, as he …
Mandrake – the rural life sim that lets you befriend a river and eavesdrop on the dead ○
Failbetter’s beguiling take on country life has its comforting routines but slowly reveals a richer and stranger life than you expect
With dulcet Welsh tones, an actor bearing an uncanny aural resembl…
9 months ago
David Tennant on sex scenes, Doctor Who and his run-in with Kemi Badenoch: ‘The trans debate has become unnecessarily cruel’ ○
As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor talks about playing a dastardly lord in the small screen adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, and whether he’d return to the Tardis
It is rare that T…
11 months ago
Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’ – podcast ○
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Marina Hyde on 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – they’re all more likable than the real thing. The actor Michael Sheen grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World C…
Fans hail Michael Sheen as a 'hero' and 'man of the people' on Secret Million Pound Giveaway as actor clears £1m of debt for 900 Brits with his own money ○
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As part of new Channel 4 show Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway, the Damned United star, 56, has bought up the vast sum of debt using £100,000 of his hard-earned cash.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway on Channel 4: His debt crusade was egotistical and profoundly pointless ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Michael Sheen plays a bumbling angel in the fantasy serial Good Omens. Playing God, it turns out, is more difficult.