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Name
  
Barry McGovern

TV shows
  
Foreign Bodies

Children
  
Sam McGovern

Education
  
Castleknock College

Role
  
Film actor


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Nominations
  
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience

Movies
  
Braveheart, Joe Versus the Volcano, Far and Away, Driftwood, Miracle at Midnight

Similar People
  
Ralph Riach, Michael Colgan, Bernard Horsfall, Gerda Stevenson, Ian Bannen

Barry mcgovern in i ll go on at the kirk douglas theatre


Barry McGovern (born 1948) is an Irish stage, film and television actor. He was educated at Castleknock College, Dublin.

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Background

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McGovern is a former member of the RTÉ Players and the Abbey Theatre Company. He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television, as well as written music for many shows, and co-written two musicals and directed plays and operas. He is known internationally for his award-winning one-man Beckett shows I'll Go On and Watt which the Gate Theatre presented at the 1985 and 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival respectively. McGovern revived "I'll Go On" for a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City for L.A.'s Center Theatre Group in 2014.

Film

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  • Waiting for Godot (2001)
  • The General (1998)
  • The Informant (1997)
  • Driftwood (1997)
  • The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Far and Away (1992)
  • Billy Bathgate (1991)
  • Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
  • Riders to the Sea (1987)

    • Television

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  • Vikings (2016)
  • Game of Thrones (2014)
  • An Crisis (2010)
  • Na Cloigne (2010)
  • School Run (2008)
  • The Tudors (2007)
  • Miracle at Midnight (1998)
  • Ballykissangel (1998)
  • Finbarr's Class (1996)
  • The Governor (1995)
  • The Treaty (1991)
  • Dear Sarah (1990)
  • Foreign Bodies (1987)
  • Caught in a Free State (1984)
  • Play for Today (1979)

    • Reviews

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  • (on his one man show "I'll Go On")
  • "McGovern illuminates the accessibility of the novels, their Irishness and their brilliant, bitter humour...brilliant" - The New York Times
  • "Barry McGovern's dazzling one-man performance…makes for wicked, compulsive fun" - The Irish Times
  • "An outright triumph…arrestingly funny" - Time
  • "90 minutes of laughter, bitterness, compassion and verbal music to leave you rapt" - New York
  • "Superb one-man show…. Without doubt one of the best interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work, McGovern's performance is masterful" - Sunday Business
  • “Barry McGovern’s astounding performance was not only the best of the festival, but also among the best I’ve ever seen… genius, no other word for it." - Sun Herald

    • Awards and nominations

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    Ovation Awards

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  • 2012: Nominated for Lead Actor in a Play for the role of Vladimir in the Center Theatre Group production of "Waiting For Godot"


    • References

    Barry McGovern Wikipedia
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