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Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.

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Michael Sheen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 5
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Michael Christopher Sheen
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