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Sheen cast in Burton's 'Alice'

Published Wednesday, Oct 1 2008, 12:00 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Sheen cast in Burton's 'Alice'

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Michael Sheen has been cast in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, reports Variety.

The British actor will join Mia Wasikowska (Alice), Matt Lucas (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) and Johnny Depp (The Mad Hatter) in the Disney film.

The Queen star also has a role lined up in the Samuel L. Jackson thriller Unthinkable, about US intelligence agents who question a terrorist threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb in the US.

Sheen can next be seen as David Frost in Ron Howard's BFI London Film Festival-opener Frost/Nixon.
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