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Occupation
  
Actor

Years active
  
1996–present

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Movies and TV shows
  
Dorothy Mills, Galactik Football, Fifty Dead Men Walking, This Must Be the Place, The Front Line

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

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

Career

He made his professional acting debut in Pat McCabe's Loco County Lonesome at Dublin's Olympia Theatre.

O'Connor has appeared in numerous films and television series since his debut in The Informant (1997).

O'Connor plays a younger version of the Earl of Shrewsbury 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 prestigious Montreal World Film Festival

2015 saw his acclaimed performance as the controversial ex Irish Minister for Justice Seán Doherty in RTÉ Charlie (TV series) opposite Aidan Gillen and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

An accomplished voice over-artist, he has voiced ad campaigns for brands like Guinness, 3 Mobile and Ford, as well as animated series such as Galactik Football, The Mad Cows and computer games like Dreamfall: The Longest Journey playing one of the lead characters Kian Alvane

Film

  • Blink (2013)
  • This Must Be the Place (2011)
  • Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
  • Dorothy Mills (2008)
  • Eden (2008)
  • The Front Line (2006)
  • Turning Green (2005)
  • RoseBud (2004)
  • Headrush (2003)
  • This Time Round (2001)
  • Mad About Mambo (2000)
  • When the Sky Falls (2000)
  • The Black Suit (2000)
  • Boat Racing (1999)
  • This Is My Father (1998)
  • The Informant (1997)
  • Fanatic (1997)
  • Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord (1997)
  • The Boys of Barr na Sráide (1996)

    • Television

  • Charlie (TV series) (2015)
  • Titanic: Blood & Steel(2012)
  • Rasaí na Gaillimhe 2 (2012)
  • The Mad Cows (2011)
  • Single Handed (2010)
  • The Tudors (2009)
  • Rasaí na Gaillimhe (2009)
  • Showbands II (2007)
  • Teenage Cics (2006)
  • Stardust (2006)
  • Galactik Football (2006)
  • Showbands (2005)
  • The Blizzard of Odd (2001)
  • Rí Rá (2001)
  • The Ambassador (1998)

    • Theatre

  • Borstal Boy, (Joe da Vinci), Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
  • A Woman of No Importance, Abbey Theatre, Dublin
  • Loco Country Lonesome (Packo), Olympia Theatre, Dublin
  • Hamlet (Laertes), Riverbank Theatre, Dublin
  • The Crucible (Danforth), Beckett Centre, Ireland
  • Picnic (Hal), Focus Theatre, Ireland
  • I Like Armadillos (Sean), Andrews Lane, Dublin

    • References

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