Three-time BAFTA nominee Michael Sheen has gained a prominent place among the talented new generation of British actors, on stage and screen. He earned a BAFTA nod as Best Supporting Actor in "The Queen" for his portrayal of Tony Blair opposite Helen Mirren's Queen, and garnered two more for Best Actor in the television dramas Kenneth Williams:"Fantabulosa!" and "Dirty Filthy Love." "The Queen" also brought him the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Last year, in addition to starring as Prime Minister Tony Blair in Stephen Frears' "The Queen," he appeared in Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond," opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. "The Queen" marked Sheen's third collaboration with Frears. He first played the British Prime Minister in Frears' television feature "The Deal" and made his feature film debut in the director's "Mary Reilly," playing Dr. Jekyll's footman. Sheen's other feature film credits include Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven," "Laws of Attraction" starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things," "Underworld," Shekhar Kapur's "The Four Feathers" and "Wilde" with Stephen Fry and Jude Law.

Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in his second year Sheen won the coveted Laurence Olivier Bursary for consistently outstanding performances. While still a student at RADA, Sheen landed a starring role opposite Vanessa Redgrave in 1991's "When She Danced," which marked his West End debut. Sheen has since earned Olivier Award nominations for his work in "Amadeus," "Look Back in Anger," and "Caligula," for which he also won a London Critics Circle Award and the London Evening Standard Award. He has also received acclaim for his performances in such plays as "Romeo and Juliet," "Peer Gynt" and "Henry V." In 1999, Sheen made his Broadway debut, reprising the title role in the revival of Peter Hall's "Amadeus."

On stage, Sheen recently starred on Broadway in the hit "Frost/Nixon," in which he played David Frost to Frank Langella's Nixon, which was written by Peter Morgan ("The Queen"). This followed the sold-out run in London, where Sheen received nominations for Best Actor from both the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Awards. The play centers around Frost and the disgraced former president accepting his lucrative offer in 1977 to participate in a series of television interviews about the events that led Nixon to resign. Sheen recently completed the film version of "Frost/Nixon," from Morgan's screen adaptation of his play that is directed by Ron Howard.