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- Charlie Murphy is an award-winning actress, known for Peaky Blinders (2013-2022), Happy Valley (2014-2022) and '71 (2014). She features as series regular Makee in the Halo TV adaptation of the popular video game series for Paramount / Amblin.
She is the recipient of four IFTA awards as Best Actress for Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley, The Village and Love/Hate.
She is known for her role as Siobhán Delaney in the RTÉ drama series Love/Hate, for which she won Best TV Actress at the 2013 Irish Film and Television Award, and Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards.
She has extensive theatre credits including The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh (West End), Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh (Young Vic, London), Arlington by Enda Walsh (Galway International Arts Festival, St Ann's Warehouse, New York), Our Few and Evil Days and Pygmalion (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) for which she won the Irish Theatre Award for Best Actress. - Actor
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Daniel Peter "Dan" O'Herlihy was born on 1 May 1919 at Odessa Cottage, Wexford Town, County Wexford (Ireland) to John Robert O'Herlihy, a civil servant from Cork who later worked in the Department of Industry and Commerce, and Ellen (née Hanton). Dan had at least two siblings, a sister and a younger brother (Michael O'Herlihy, who became a television director). The family moved to Dublin when Dan was one year old. Educated at CBS Eblana (Dún Laoghaire Christian Brothers School), as a teenager he developed literary ambitions. Upon entering UCD, he applied to study law but rapidly switched to architecture which allowed him to use his drawing skills. While a student he published political cartoons in Irish newspapers under the initials "TOC".
O'Herlihy decided not to follow in his father's footsteps, forsaking the life of an architect in favour of the acting profession. The tall, distinguished-looking university graduate boasted a rich, resonant voice which enabled him to easily find work in radio plays, as well on the stage. He first came to note as a small part actor with the Gate and Abbey Theatre Players, on occasion putting his architectural qualifications to use as a set designer. His first leading role was in Sean O'Casey's play 'Red Roses for Me' in 1944. During one of his performances in Dublin, he was spotted by the director Carol Reed and cast as an IRA terrorist in Odd Man Out (1947). This, and another London-produced film, Hungry Hill (1947), resulted in good critical notices , prompting another genial filmmaker, Orson Welles, to cast O'Herlihy in the role of Macduff for his Mercury/Republic production of Macbeth (1948). While this enterprise was far from successful, the actor's rugged, bearded appearance sufficiently impressed Luis Buñuel to cast him in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe (1954).
Until the arrival of "Friday", the only other featured character, this definitive version of Daniel Defoe's shipwrecked 17th century mariner was a tour-de-force one man show, a compelling, wordless portrayal of agonised solitude. However, as the Mexican production was considered merely a B-movie in Hollywood, O'Herlihy was forced to invest some of his own money to have the film exhibited in Los Angeles. While he was rewarded with an Oscar nomination, few worthy job offers came his way. For the remainder of the decade, he worked under short-term contracts as a character actor (often billed as "Daniel O'Herlihy") for Universal and 20th Century Fox, typically cast in costume dramas like The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), The Purple Mask (1955) and The Virgin Queen (1955). When movie roles became scarce, he branched out into anthology television, eventually becoming a much sought-after guest star on popular prime time shows like The Untouchables (1959), Bonanza (1959) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Work on radio shows, like 'Johnny Dollar', 'Suspense' and 'Lux Radio Theatre', also continued to provide him with a steady source of income.
From the mid-1960s, he was afforded several better film opportunities: first, in a memorable dual role as the sinister, voyeuristic Dr.Caligari AND the handsome psychiatrist treating repressed mental patient Jane Lindstrom (Glynis Johns), in Robert Bloch's off-beat psycho-thriller, The Cabinet of Caligari (1962). Second, he played an anguished U.S. Air Force general contemplating orders to drop a hydrogen bomb over New York, in Sidney Lumet's gripping anti-war drama Fail Safe (1964). He was also, among later big screen appearances, one of many name actors in the star-studded military epic Waterloo (1970) (as Napoleon's "Marshal Ney"); unrecognisable in make-up as a reptilian alien in the 'Star Wars' clone The Last Starfighter (1984); as irredeemable villains in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) and RoboCop (1987); and as the inscrutable Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks (1990) on television. He continued to alternate film work with acting on stage in Los Angeles and at the Abbey Theater. Dan O'Herlihy died on 17 February 2005, aged 85. He left his papers to the care of University College Dublin (UCD) where he had graduated with a degree in architecture in 1945.- Actress
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Ruth Codd was born on 13 June 1996 in Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland. She is an actress, known for How to Train Your Dragon (2025), The Midnight Club (2022) and Creepshow (2019).- Actor
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Dan Smyers was born on 16 August 1987 in Wexford, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Dan + Shay: Tequila (2018), Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber: 10,000 Hours (2019) and Dan + Shay: From the Ground Up (2016).- Actor
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Christopher Luke O'Neill (more commonly known by his internet pseudonyms Oney, and or OneyNG) is an Irish animator, voice actor, composer, visual effects artist, and video game developer based in Los Angeles, California. He is mainly known for making parody animations, as well as creating the Lets Play channel OneyPlays along with his associates Ding Dong and Julian.- Joe Breen was born in 1990 in Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Angela's Ashes (1999), On Home Ground (2001) and Heaven Is Home (2025).
- Writer
- Actor
Colm Tóibín was born on 30 May 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. He is a writer and actor, known for Brooklyn (2015), Return to Montauk (2017) and El testament de la Rosa (2015).- Actor
- Director
Al Ferguson was born on 19 April 1888 in Rosslare, County Wexford, Ireland. He was an actor and director, known for The Three Musketeers (1933), The Trail of Vengeance (1924) and Shackles of Fear (1924). He was married to Lottie Taber. He died on 4 December 1971 in Burbank, California, USA.- John Banville was born on 8 December 1945 in Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland. He is a writer, known for Albert Nobbs (2011), The Sea (2013) and Marlowe (2022).
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- Actor
- Producer
Eoin Colfer was born on 14 May 1965 in Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland. He is a writer and actor, known for Artemis Fowl (2020), Highfire and Untitled Eoin Colfer Live Action Project. He has been married to Jackie Colfer since 1991. They have two children.- Garrett Lombard was born in 1976 in Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Alexander (2004), Pure Mule (2005) and Rough Diamond (2006).
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Besides being an award-winning music editor, Kevin is also an internationally renowned Irish Traditional Fiddle player. A seventh generation musician, he is the grandson of Junior Crehan. His first solo CD, "An Bhabog sa Bhadog" was released in 2000 to fantastic critical acclaim and is considered to be one of Irish music's all time greatest albums.- Composer
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Pierce Turner was born in 1956 in County Wexford, Ireland. He is a composer and actor, known for The Other Guys (2010), The First Turn-On!! (1983) and Snakes and Ladders (1996).- Loughlin Gannon was born in County Wexford, Ireland. He is known for Killers Within (2018), Into the Red (2014) and 2018 NABBA Mr.Universe (2018).
- Ann Doyle was born on 30 January 1952 in County Wexford, Ireland. She is an actress, known for The General (1998), Making Ends Meet (1999) and Don't Feed the Gondolas (1997).
- Gerald Fleming was born in County Wexford, Ireland.
- Originally from Ireland, John's family immigrated to the US in 1985. He was smitten with the acting bug in high school, which lead to the BFA program at the University of Connecticut and eventually New York City and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. After spending many years in the Off-Off Broadway community he headed west to Los Angeles, but the tug of the East coast proved too much so you can now find him back in NYC.
- Noel Whelan was born on 24 November 1968 in Ballycullane, County Wexford, Ireland. He was an actor, known for A Terrible Beauty... (2013). He was married to Sinéad McSweeney. He died on 10 July 2019 in Ireland.
- Kevin Doyle was born in County Wexford, Ireland.