As a young man, Michael Sheen turned down the opportunity to pursue a possible professional football career, opting to follow in the footsteps of fellow Port Talbot natives Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins by attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
In 1993, Sheen joined the troupe Cheek By Jowl and was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for his performance in "Don't Fool with Love". That same year, he excelled as a mentally unstable man who becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot in "Gallowglass", a three-part BBC serial that aired in the USA on PBS' "Mystery!" in 1995.
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