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John Lynch is an Irish actor and novelist. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby.His other film and television appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020–2022), and The Banishing (2021).
Ian McElhinney (born 30 June 1948) is a Northern Irish actor and director. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than forty years; notable appearances include Taggart, Hornblower, Cold Feet, and The Tudors.
Toby Jones is cast as Mr Burton, a school teacher who had a profound effect on the life of a young pupil, Richard Jenkins, who later became known as the actor Richard Burton, with Lesley Manville cast as Mr Burton's landlady and Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Aneurin Barnard cast as young Jenkins' sister and brother-in-law. [3]
This list of notable actors from Ireland includes performers in film, television, stage, and radio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish actor. He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic-fantasy series Game of Thrones. [1]Cunningham has been nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two Irish Film & Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael Fassbender, for their crime-drama short film Pitch Black Heist.
Aidan Murphy (born 24 April 1968), better known as Aidan Gillen (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə n /), is an Irish actor.He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards [1] and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.
Ciarán Hinds (/ ˈ k ɪər ə n / KEER-ən; [1] born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland.Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace ...
Townsend was born in Howth, County Dublin, the son of Lorna Hogan, an Irish model, and Peter Townsend, an English professional golfer. [1] [2] His younger brother, Dylan, is also an actor. [3] Stuart attended the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, and made his non-professional stage debut in its 1993 production of Colin Teevan's Tear Up The Black ...