Michael Sheen is, frankly, pretty faint praise". He won a RTS Award for Best Actor, and received his second BAFTA nomination of 2006, for Best Television Actor. Sheen starred in two other BBC television productions in 2006, playing H. G. Wells in "" and Nero in "". From 2006 to 2007, Sheen starred as the television broadcaster David Frost in "Frost/Nixon" at both the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London and at the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. The play, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage and co-starring Frank Langella, was a critical and commercial success but Sheen initially accepted
Michael Sheen performances for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In the 2000s, while continuing to make sporadic stage appearances, Sheen became known primarily as a screen actor. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in "Caligula" at the Donmar Warehouse and had a breakthrough performance as the British politician Tony Blair in the television film "The Deal". He received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2004 for his work in the ITV drama "Dirty Filthy Love". In 2006, Sheen starred as the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's "" and came to the attention