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
Shawn Michael Howard Shawn Michael Howard Shawn Michael Howard (born July 31, 1969) is an American film, television and theater actor. Howard was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Olivia C. and Frank Howard, Jr., brother of Brad Howard and Tyrone Scott Howard. Father of Elijah Howard Shawn moved to Manhattan at age 19 to study acting at New York University. He began working off-Broadway while still in school, in "Mac Wellman's Crowbar", which won the obie for "Best Play". He worked in character roles on episodic television in New York City, and his first film role came opposite Tupac Shakur