Robert Fox (producer) production of "The Boy from Oz" starring Hugh Jackman which also recently finished a record-breaking tour of arenas in Australia; and "The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh starring Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum. Fox is currently co-producing two new plays: on Broadway, "The Vertical Hour" by David Hare starring Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and in the West End, "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen at the Gielgud Theatre. Fox executive-produced the film of "Closer" (Columbia TriStar) directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. Before that he produced "The
Michael Sheen nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. At this point in his career, Sheen began to devote more time to film work. "Heartlands", a little-seen 2002 film about a naive man's road trip in the Midlands, was his first leading film role. While "The Guardian" dismissed the "cloying bittersweet-regional-lottery-Britfilm", it noted that "Sheen himself has a childlike, Frank Spencer-ish charm". "It was great to do something that was so different", Sheen has said of the role. "I usually play very extreme characters." Also in 2002, he had a minor role