Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen staged The Passion across his home town of Port Talbot over Easter weekend in 2011, using hundreds of local residents, and has kept returning to Wales ever since. When National Theatre Wales closed in 2024 he personally funded a new Welsh National Theatre company, whose first production, Our Town, toured Welsh venues from January 2026. Few actors of his fame have put their own money so directly into their nation's stages.