Brendan Gleeson

Born: 1955-03-29

Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).


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Joker: Folie à Deux

as Jackie Sullivan
Released: 2024-10-01

While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also...

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as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
Released: 2005-11-16

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling...

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as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
Released: 2010-11-17

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...

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as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
Released: 2007-07-08

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings...

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Troy

as Menelaos
Released: 2004-05-13

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the...

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28 Days Later

as Frank
Released: 2002-10-31

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research...

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as Hamish Campbell
Released: 1995-05-24

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William...

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Edge of Tomorrow

as General Brigham
Released: 2014-05-27

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously...

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as Reynald de Chatillon
Released: 2005-05-03

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and...

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Safe House

as David Barlow
Released: 2012-02-08

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded...

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Paddington 2

as Knuckles McGinty
Released: 2017-11-09

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the...

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

as Duncan
Released: 2021-12-05

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will...

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
Released: 2018-11-09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the...

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Gangs of New York

as Walter "Monk" McGinn
Released: 2002-12-14

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the...

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as Lord Johnson-Johnson
Released: 2001-06-29

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a...

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The Banshees of Inisherin

as Colm Doherty
Released: 2022-10-20

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship,...

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The Smurfs 2

as Victor Doyle
Released: 2013-07-30

The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the...

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In the Heart of the Sea

as Old Thomas Nickerson
Released: 2015-12-03

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could...

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Mission: Impossible II

as McCloy
Released: 2000-05-24

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan...

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The Secret of Kells

as Abbot Cellach (voice)
Released: 2009-02-09

Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal...

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Stonehearst Asylum

as The Alienist
Released: 2014-10-23

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes...

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The Village

as August Nicholson
Released: 2004-07-30

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his...

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Assassin's Creed

as Joseph Lynch
Released: 2016-12-21

Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in...

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Beowulf

as Wiglaf
Released: 2007-11-05

A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre,...

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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

as Pirate with Gout (voice)
Released: 2012-03-12

The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter...

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Live by Night

as Thomas Coughlin
Released: 2016-12-25

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing...

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Song of the Sea

as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)
Released: 2014-06-23

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and...

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as Ken Daley
Released: 2008-02-08

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are...

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as Stobrod Thewes
Released: 2003-12-24

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a...

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Lake Placid

as Sheriff Hank Keough
Released: 1999-07-15

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a...

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Alone in Berlin

as Otto Quangel
Released: 2016-02-15

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a...

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Far and Away

as Social Club Policeman
Released: 1992-05-22

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As...

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Green Zone

as Martin Brown
Released: 2010-03-11

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team...

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Calvary

as Father James Lavelle
Released: 2014-04-11

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces...

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The Grand Seduction

as Murray French
Released: 2014-05-30

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract....

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The Company You Keep

as Henry Osborne
Released: 2012-12-20

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

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The Tailor of Panama

as Mickie Abraxas
Released: 2001-03-30

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once...

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Suffragette

as Arthur Steed
Released: 2015-10-16

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were...

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Michael Collins

as Liam Tobin
Released: 1996-10-25

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s,...

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Perrier's Bounty

as Darren Perrier
Released: 2009-09-11

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the...

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The General

as Martin Cahill
Released: 1998-05-01

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring...

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Trespass Against Us

as Colby Culter
Released: 2016-10-14

Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest...

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as Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Released: 2011-07-07

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI...

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In My Country

as De Jagar
Released: 2004-05-04

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's...

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Turbulence

as Stubbs
Released: 1997-01-09

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and...

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as Colonel Hamilton
Released: 2012-03-09

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in...

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Harrison's Flowers

as Marc Stevenson
Released: 2000-09-23

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported...

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Albert Nobbs

as Dr. Holloran
Released: 2011-12-21

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to...

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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

as Huntsman (voice)
Released: 2021-05-28

A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the...

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Breakfast on Pluto

as John Joe Kenny
Released: 2005-11-16

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London...

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Dark Blue

as Jack van Meter
Released: 2002-12-14

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events...

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Into the Storm

as Winston Churchill
Released: 2009-05-31

This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he...

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Six Shooter

as Donnelly
Released: 2004-10-14

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with...

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Hampstead

as Donald Horner
Released: 2017-06-23

Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic...

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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

as Captain Vicks (voice)
Released: 2018-08-15

Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon,...

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Into the West

as Inspector Bolger
Released: 1992-10-23

Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the...

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Frankie

as Jimmy
Released: 2019-08-28

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of...

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The Field

as Quarryman
Released: 1990-09-21

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the...

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This Is My Father

as Garda Jim
Released: 1999-05-07

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had...

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The Butcher Boy

as Father Bubbles
Released: 1998-02-20

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with...

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I Went Down

as Bunny Kelly
Released: 1997-10-03

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a...

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The Snapper

as Lester
Released: 1993-08-06

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin....

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So You Want To Be A Pirate!

as The Pirate With Gout
Released: 2012-07-09

With the help of his trusted dodo Polly, the Pirate Captain presents fun-loving and hilarious...

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Dear Sarah

as Brendan Dowd
Released: 1990-02-07

Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven...

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The Tiger's Tail

as Liam O'Leary
Released: 2006-09-26

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

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Atlantic

as Narrator
Released: 2016-02-05

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of...

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Studs

as Walter Keegan
Released: 2006-03-16

The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having...

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The Cup

as Dermot Weld
Released: 2011-11-13

At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a...

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Saltwater

as Simple Simon
Released: 2000-09-29

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and...

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Noreen

as Con Keogh
Released: 2010-06-24

Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour...

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The Path to Redemption

as Self
Released: 2006-01-01

From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's...

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Black Irish

as Desmond McKay
Released: 2007-10-26

In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face...

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Love Lies Bleeding

as Thomas Macken
Released: 1993-06-14

Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder....

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The Treaty

as Michael Collins
Released: 1991-12-05

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael...

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My Life So Far

as Jim Menzies
Released: 1999-08-25

A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a...

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Wild About Harry

as Harry McKee
Released: 2000-12-31

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has...

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H Is for Hawk

as Alisdair Macdonald
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The true story follows Helen who, after losing her beloved father, finds herself saved by an...

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Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's

as Self
Released: 2024-02-02

In 2021, Hughes’s pub closed its doors for the last time. In January 2022, talented fiddle...

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Deconstructing 'The Village'

as Self
Released: 2005-01-11

In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get...

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Lost Lives

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-10

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in...

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Spaghetti Slow

as Frank Ferguson
Released: 1996-11-09

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the...

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Trojan Eddie

as Ginger
Released: 1996-09-09

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish...

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Cáca Milis

as Paul
Released: 2001-03-16

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man.

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Sweety Barrett

as Sweety Barrett
Released: 1999-04-16

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world,...

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A Further Gesture

as Richard
Released: 1997-01-01

Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade...

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Psychic

as Jeremiah
Released: 2018-07-15

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief.

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On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin

as Self
Released: 2023-01-14

On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of The Banshees of Inisherin.

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Pursuit

as Searbhán
Released: 2015-07-10

Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and...

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Angela Mooney Dies Again

as Barney Mooney
Released: 1997-07-09

Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in...

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self
First aired: 2015-09-08

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...

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The Late Late Show with James Corden

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2015-03-23

Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a...

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Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

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The Graham Norton Show

as Self
First aired: 2007-02-22

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on...

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Mr. Mercedes

as Detective Bill Hodges
First aired: 2017-08-09

A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and...

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Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

as Ferny Toro (voice)
First aired: 2003-09-07

The adventures of Piggley, a spunky eight-year-old pig, and his friends Dannan the Duck and...

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State of the Union

as Scott
First aired: 2019-05-06

Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each...

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The Comey Rule

as Donald Trump
First aired: 2020-09-27

An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the...

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Frank of Ireland

as Liam
First aired: 2021-04-15

Frank is a 33-year-old catastrophe; a misanthropic fantasist in arrested development who’s...

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The Irish Civil War

as Narrator
First aired: 2022-12-11

The 3-part documentary series The Irish Civil War tells the epic and often challenging story of...

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The Burren: Heart of Stone

as Narrator
First aired: 2021-04-11

Come along on a journey through the ages, tracing the genetic story of the Irish people, the...

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