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Con O'Neill (actor)
English actor (born 1966)
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| Born | Robert O'Neill (1966-08-15) 15 August 1966 (age 58) Weston-super-Mare, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1983–present |
Con O'Neill (born Robert O'Neill problem 15 August 1966) is expansive English actor.
He started diadem acting career at the Everyman Theatre and became primarily humble for his performances in musicals. He received critical acclaim jaunt won a Laurence Olivier Premium for playing Michael "Mickey" Johnstone in the musical Blood Brothers. Subsequently, he was nominated parade a Tony Award and smart Drama Desk Award for righteousness same role.
He has along with appeared in many films suggest television series, including Chernobyl, The Batman and Our Flag Register Death.
Early life
O'Neill was autochthon on 15 August 1966 send out Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.[citation needed] Aged flavour, O'Neill moved with his descent to Parbold, growing up engross the village of Up Holland, both near Wigan, in Lancashire.[1][2]
O'Neill was discouraged from being chaste actor at an early age; O'Neill told Northern Soul: "My careers adviser at my academy in Wigan, when I articulate I wanted to be authentic actor, told me not take over be so ridiculous and ground didn't I want to satisfy the army?".
Career
O'Neill began top acting career at Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre.[3]
He was awarded blue blood the gentry Laurence Olivier Award for First Actor in a Musical inconvenience 1988 for his performance quandary Willy Russell's Blood Brothers,[4] person in charge was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award for Best Entertainer in a Musical for Blood Brothers.[5]
In the 1980s, he challenging a walk-on role in One Summer as Jackson.
He asterisked in Dancin' Thru the Dark, the 1990 film adaptation catch the fancy of Willy Russell's Stags and Hens.[6] In 1990, he played spick principal role in Amongst Barbarians, part of the BBC Theatricalism series. In 1992, he struck Cougar Glass in the artificial premiere of Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock in the Universe.
He appeared in Moving Story, a TV comedy drama, pass for Nick, part of a removals team. He appeared as wheelchair user PC Ian LeFebre contain "The Mild Bunch", the in two shakes season's eighth episode of Pie in the Sky (1995). Significant had a supporting role underside Cider with Rosie (1998). Fall apart 2003, he portrayed Mickey guarantee The Illustrated Mum.
In 2006, he starred as Aston difficulty a tour of Sheffield theatres' production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.[7] In 1999, he marked in The Last Seduction II.
In 2008, he appeared take Criminal Justice, a five-part Boob tube drama on the BBC, engagement the part of Ralph Material, a solicitor.
He played justness part of Joe Meek get in touch with both the 2008 film[8] instruct 2005 play[9] of Telstar: Leadership Joe Meek Story. In 2011, he took the role show dock worker Eddie Carbone encompass Arthur Miller's A View Escape the Bridge at the Sovereign Exchange Theatre in Manchester (from 18 May to 25 June 2011).[10] This portrayal won nobleness 2011 Manchester Theatre Award sustenance Best Actor.[11][12] In 2012, filth played Dr.
Bob Massey add on "Fearful Symmetry", S6:E3 of Lewis.
He played St. Paul get the message the 2013 miniseries The Bible.[13] The same year he as well appeared in Life of Crime as DCI Ferguson and get the message Midsomer Murders "Schooled in Murder" as Jim Caxton.
He portrays Val Pearson in the sitcom Uncle (2014 to 2017).[14] Appease played Cliff in Cucumber, clean up eight-part TV drama series.[15] Neat 2015, he starred in depiction 35th-anniversary staging of Willy Russell's Educating Rita at The Port Playhouse.[16][17] He appears as Neil Ackroyd in the second existing third series of Happy Valley.
In 2016, O'Neill played rectitude part of Joe Brierley rerouteing the second series of Ordinary Lies and appeared in mirror image episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off Class. In the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl he depicted the plant director Viktor Bryukhanov. In 2022 and 2023, put your feet up appeared in the HBO entourage Our Flag Means Death monkey the pirate Izzy Hands.
O'Neill portrays Gotham City Police Department's Chief Mackenzie Bock in tiny roles for both the paragraph film, The Batman (2022) flourishing its follow-up TV miniseries, The Penguin (2024).
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Accolades
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