Gavin O'Connor (actor)

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Gavin O'Connor
Born	Cork, Ireland
Occupation	Actor, Author
Years active	1996–present

Gavin O'Connor is an Irish actor who has had roles in TV series such as Charlie, The Tudors, Single Handed and films including Dorothy Mills (2008), The Front Line (2006), Headrush (2003) and This Is My Father (1998), This Must Be The Place (2011) and Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008).

A book by O'Connor, MOJO, was released on Amazon in 2019.^[1]

Biography[]

Born in Cork, O'Connor trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin.

Career[]

O'Connor made his professional acting debut in Pat McCabe's Loco County Lonesome at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in September 1994.^[2] His on-screen debut came in the film The Informant (1997). O'Connor plays a younger version of the Earl of Shrewsbury^[3][4] in the third series of Michael Hirst's hit television series The Tudors, first aired on 5 April 2009 in the United States on Showtime, and August 2009 in the United Kingdom on BBC2.

His first film as writer/actor/producer Blink was nominated in World Competition at the Montreal World Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, he played the former Minister for Justice Seán Doherty in RTÉ's Charlie (TV series).^[5] In 2016, he played Patrick Pearse in The Bloody Irish for PBS, and in 2018 he played Mackin in RTE's drama .^[6][7]

As a voice over-artist, he has voiced several ad campaigns, animated series (such as Galactik Football and The Mad Cows) and computer games like Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.^{[citation needed]} In the latter he voiced one of the lead characters Kian Alvane.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography[]

Film[]

• Don't Go
• (Director Wishes To Thank) (2018)
• (Writer, Producer)
• (2013)
• This Must Be the Place (2011)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
• Dorothy Mills (2008)
• (2008)
• The Front Line (2006)
• Turning Green (2005)
• (2004)
• Headrush (2003)
• (2001)
• Mad About Mambo (2000)
• When the Sky Falls (2000)
• (2000)
• (1999)
• This Is My Father (1998)
• The Informant (1997)
• (1997)
• (1997)
• The Boys of Barr na Sráide (1996)

Television[]

• The Alienist (TV series) Murphy
• Mackin
• (2016) Patrick Pearse
• Charlie (2015)
• Titanic: Blood & Steel (2012)^[8]
• (2012)
• The Mad Cows (2011)
• Single Handed (2010)
• The Tudors (2009)
• (2009)
• (2007)
• (2006)
• Stardust (2006)
• Galactik Football (2006)
• Showbands (2005)
• The Blizzard of Odd (2001)
• (2001)
• The Ambassador (1998)

Theatre[]

• , (Patrick Pearse), The Helix
• Borstal Boy, (Joe da Vinci), Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
• A Woman of No Importance, Abbey Theatre, Dublin
• (Packo), Olympia Theatre, Dublin
• Hamlet (Laertes), Riverbank Theatre, Dublin
• The Crucible (Danforth), Beckett Centre, Ireland
• Picnic (Hal), Focus Theatre, Ireland
• (Sean), Andrews Lane, Dublin

References and notes[]

External links[]

• Gavin O'Connor at IMDb