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Historical Interpreter; Fife & Drum Corps Director, Fifer & Drummer; Singer of UK, American, & Historical Folksong; Author, Past Into Present (UNC Pr, 1998); MLS. Michael Sheen enthusiast. Good Omens fan. Supports Ukraine.
Dec 5 2008 FROST/NIXON opens. Dir. Ron Howard. Thoroughly compelling dramatization of 4 1977 TV interviews Brit media journo David Frost conducted with disgraced former Pres. Richard Nixon. Michael Sheen & Frank Langella reprise their roles from the original stage productions.
05.12.2025 23:37 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Imagine him portraying Santa as Roland Blum playing Santa. OMG, that would be funny.
04.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The New Jersey Historical Commission has an online list of events and places related to Black history and culture! Have a look!
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18.11.2025 06:18 — 👍 43 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1"Aziraphale is so foolish to think he can change the system from within," say fans as Michael Sheen stars in a play about a real life human being who successfully changed the system from within.
18.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 45 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0This clip of Michael Sheen reading song lyrics that he has never heard as if they were in a script is hysterical!
16.11.2025 23:46 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Michael Sheen gives his all in a reading of Raye's "Where Is My Husband!" on the Josh & Kally Capital radio programme.
We'll be awaiting the David Tennant response.
A few clips of Michael Sheen in the Lyric Hammersmith 130th birthday video: youtu.be/WHTwbuQSX3E?... ❤️
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Just announced: our Spring/Summer gigs season!
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There are (Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, and Mackenzie Scott, for example), but they can't play a convincing vampire, king, werewolf, angel, serial killer, prime minister, etc. like our beloved Mr. Sheen.
And certainly, more billionaires could catch that level of charitable heroism.
Richard Burton had the looks, talent and colourful life to captivate the world. This is his story from miner's son to Hollywood told by his family and stars including Michael Sheen.
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![In 2019, Sheen sold his own houses to fund the Homeless World Cup in Cardiff when its £2,000,000 funding fell through at the last minute. 3391340113411/342]3431 In 2020, he raised more than £33,000 to help people in Wales whose homes have been hit by flooding in the wake of Storm Dennis. (344][345][3461
In 2021, Sheen invested £250,000 of his own money to launch Malo Gwalia 347) (meaning Sons of Wales), a fund to fund community projects in Wales. 3481 The organisation currently supports 16 projects, including Mothers Matter, GROW
Cymru (Growing Real Opportunities for Women), ASD Rainbows, Cwm Taf People First, Escape Artists North Wales, Street Football Wales, and Mab Gwalia Welsh Drama Student Scholarship programme in partnership with Manic Street Preachers. 3491 Each academic year, the Mab Gwalia Welsh Drama Student Scholarship awards up to £15,000 to support up to three eligible students. 350] "Opportunity should not only be
available to those who can afford it," Sheen said.
[351][352] He also funds the Michael Sheen Bursary for Welsh undergraduates at Jesus College, Oxford, pledging £50,000 over five years. 353]
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In 2019, Sheen sold his own houses to fund the Homeless World Cup in Cardiff when its £2,000,000 funding fell through at the last minute. 3391340113411/342]3431 In 2020, he raised more than £33,000 to help people in Wales whose homes have been hit by flooding in the wake of Storm Dennis. (344][345][3461 In 2021, Sheen invested £250,000 of his own money to launch Malo Gwalia 347) (meaning Sons of Wales), a fund to fund community projects in Wales. 3481 The organisation currently supports 16 projects, including Mothers Matter, GROW Cymru (Growing Real Opportunities for Women), ASD Rainbows, Cwm Taf People First, Escape Artists North Wales, Street Football Wales, and Mab Gwalia Welsh Drama Student Scholarship programme in partnership with Manic Street Preachers. 3491 Each academic year, the Mab Gwalia Welsh Drama Student Scholarship awards up to £15,000 to support up to three eligible students. 350] "Opportunity should not only be available to those who can afford it," Sheen said. [351][352] He also funds the Michael Sheen Bursary for Welsh undergraduates at Jesus College, Oxford, pledging £50,000 over five years. 353] [354][355][356]
![In December 2021, Sheen announced that he would be giving all of his future earnings to charities, declaring himself a "not-for-profit actor" [357] That same year, he co-founded A Writing Chance, which gives new and aspiring writers from working-class and lower-income backgrounds resources and access to the writing industries. 3581 The writers and their stories would then be introduced on the Michael Sheen:
Margins to Mainstream podcast on BBC Radio
Wales. [359][360]
In October 2024, it was reported that Sheen had used his own money to write off personal debts for hundreds of people in South Wales. (361][362] On 10 March 2025, the process of Sheen clearing £1,000,000 of debt for 900 people in South Wales with £100,000 of his own money was shown in Channel 4's documentary Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway. (363](364]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uc7eb5rz4yin3kgshnptkuex/bafkreibh4rycfsg7pn3taoulohuth53f2lyhibbn677okxi7iel3gx37lm@jpeg)
In December 2021, Sheen announced that he would be giving all of his future earnings to charities, declaring himself a "not-for-profit actor" [357] That same year, he co-founded A Writing Chance, which gives new and aspiring writers from working-class and lower-income backgrounds resources and access to the writing industries. 3581 The writers and their stories would then be introduced on the Michael Sheen: Margins to Mainstream podcast on BBC Radio Wales. [359][360] In October 2024, it was reported that Sheen had used his own money to write off personal debts for hundreds of people in South Wales. (361][362] On 10 March 2025, the process of Sheen clearing £1,000,000 of debt for 900 people in South Wales with £100,000 of his own money was shown in Channel 4's documentary Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway. (363](364]
Imagine if any U.S. billionaire was as charitable as Welsh actor Michael Sheen
08.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0...and Mr. Boldwood (Far from the Madding Crowd).
05.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aziraphale (Good Omens), Art (Music Within), David Frost (Frost/Nixon), Aro (Twilight), Roland Blum (The Good Fight), Bill Masters (Masters of Sex)...
05.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last Halloween, trick or treaters thought I was Professor Snape (didn't use the blood last year). This year, they asked if I was Ozzy Osbourne.
Yeah, I know that Aro Volturi didn't bite anyone in Twilight. He only salivated a little.
A mysterious imp sat in the back row of a screening of Twilight Breaking Dawn part 2 dressed like this 😎:
04.11.2025 00:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Moan... I wish I could throw my had in the ring for this.
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People are loving the images of Michael Sheen and David Tennant and partners Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant dressed as each other for Halloween
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Feeling a little peckish yesterday...
01.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Cachu Hwch!!!
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If you want to hear more about the ship’s story, you will be able to listen to/purchase an audio guide narrated by actor Michael Sheen.
www.wales247.co.uk/new-document...
David and Georgia Tennant dressing up like Michael Sheen and his partner Anna Lundberg for Halloween complete with amazingly terrible curly wig
Michael Sheen and Anna Lundberg dressing up like David and Georgia Tennant in Staged complete with shorts and headband.
Michael Sheen , David Tennant and their significant others dressing up as each other for Halloween is perfect.
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Famous actor Michael Sheen spotted filming in Cefn Mawr
www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2558111...
Review of Philip Pullman's "The Rose Field," the concluding volume of the Book of Dust trilogy, by Sarah Crown of The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
It's here! Part II of The Sheenant Chronicles - my collaboration with @atennantcytoact.bsky.social - has officially dropped. Here's my deep dive into Michael Sheen and the 'Madchester' Romeo & Juliet (RET, 1992). Be prepared for a version the Bard might not have recognized! 🔥
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Michael Sheen Added A Subtle Beverly Hills Cop Homage To His Tron: Legacy Dialogue #ActionAdventureMovies #ScienceFictionMovies
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Michael Sheen as Aziraphale in Good Omens at #5
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A 2009 Connecticut newspaper interview with Michael Sheen on portraying Aro in the Twilight series!
"The tailoring is so much better as a vampire." 😂🧛♂️
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The 23rd Day of Vampire October! Sorry for the late post. Today is Aro from Twilight.
He is the leader of the Volturi, and if he touches you he can read your mind. I’m kind of meh about him in the books but I love how Michael Sheen plays him in the movies. Just a little gremlin.
