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My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

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Michael Sheen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Newport
South Wales
Michael Christopher Sheen
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'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
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