Sheen 's most notable film appearance of 2011 was a supporting role in Woody Allen 's '' Midnight in Paris '' . Allen noted that " Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual , the genuine intellectual , the pedant , and he came in and nailed it from the start " . Sheen enjoyed playing " someone who 's just absolutely got no sense that he 's overstepping the mark or that he 's being a bore . " The film opened the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and became Allen 's highest-grossing film to date . Also in 2011 , Sheen starred in '' Beautiful Boy '' , an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting , voiced the enigmatic and mysterious villain House in the '' Doctor Who '' episode " The Doctor 's Wife " written by his friend Neil Gaiman and made cameo appearances in '' The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn – Part 1 '' and '' Resistance '' . In 2012 film work , Sheen starred opposite Toni Collette in the independent comedy '' Jesus Henry Christ '' and reprised his role as the vampire Aro in the final instalment of '' The Twilight Saga ''
2011 Cannes Film Festival
2011 Cannes Film Festival
Michael Sheen