Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea (2010)

Stephen Rea (/ ˈreɪ /; born October 31, 1946 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is an Irish actor .

Life

After a few years as an actor in Irish and English theaters and around two decades in more or less insignificant film roles, Stephen Rea became known overnight in 1992 as Fergus in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game , for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 as best male leading actor .

He completed his acting training at the Abbey Theater School . In the 1970s and 1980s, he constantly commuted between theater, television and film. At the theater, Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney were among his colleagues. He made his film debut in 1970 in a tiny supporting role in the horror flick The Witches' Death Cry, starring Vincent Price . Neil Jordan gave him his first major role in 1980 in the film Angel , which is considered the prequel of The Crying Game . Rea and Jordan have now made twelve films together, the last being Greta (2018).

In 1995 he played a prominent role in Citizen X, a coroner in a twelve-year search for a serial killer in Russia in the 1980s. In 2001 Rea starred in the drama On the Edge . In 2003 he played the Leopold Bloom of James Joyce in Bloom . In the lavish comic adaptation V for Vendetta in 2006, he played one of the main roles as a police officer who was plagued by his conscience and worked for a dictatorial regime.

From 1983 to 2003, the Republican Protestant was married to former IRA fighter Dolours Price, with whom he has two sons.

Filmography (selection)

• 1964: Crossroads (TV series)
• 1967: Sanctuary (TV series)
• 1969: Z Cars (TV series)
• 1970: Cry of the Banshee
• 1970: Task Force Police (TV series)
• 1972: The Moonstone (TV series)
• 1974: Thriller (TV series)
• 1975: Days of Hope (TV series)
• 1975: I Didn't Know You Cared (TV series)
• 1977: BBC2 Play of the Week (TV series)
• 1978: On a Paving Stone Mounted (TV series)
• 1978: Play of the Month (TV series)
• 1978: The Professionals (TV series)
• 1978: BBC2 Playhouse (TV series)
• 1979: Play for Today (TV series)
• 1980: Deadly Secret ( Caleb Williams , TV series)
• 1982: Angel
• 1982: Joyce in June (TV movie)
• 1983: Loose Connections
• 1984: Minder (TV series)
• 1984: Shergar (TV movie)
• 1984: The Company of Wolves (The Company of Wolves)
• 1984: The House (TV movie)
• 1985: Four Days in July (TV movie)
• 1985: The Doctor and the Devils
• 1986: Boon (TV series)
• 1987: Lost Belongings (TV series)
• 1989: Endgame by Samuel Beckett (TV movie)
• 1989: Nobody Here But Us Chickens (TV movie)
• 1990: Not with a Bang (TV series)
• 1991: Life is Sweet
• 1991: Saint Oscar (TV movie)
• 1992: The Crying Game
• 1993: Saturday Night Live (TV series)
• 1993: Bad Behavior
• 1993: Hedda Gabler (TV movie)
• 1993: Performance (TV series)
• 1994: Angie
• 1994: Prêt-à-Porter
• 1994: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
• 1994: Princess Caraboo
• 1995: All Men Are Mortal
• 1995: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
• 1995: Citizen X
• 1995: Shadow of a Gunman (TV movie)
• 1995: Divine Magic: The Witch Hunt (TV movie, voice only)
• 1996: Divine Magic: The World of the Supernatural - Messengers of the Gods (TV movie)
• 1996: Crime of the Century (TV movie)
• 1996: Michael Collins
• 1996: Last of the High Kings (The Last of the High Kings, Summer Fling)
• 1996: Trojan Eddie
• 1997: The Last Assassination (A Further Gesture)
• 1997: Cypher
• 1997: Fever Pitch
• 1997: Hacks
• 1997: The Butcher Boy
• 1998: Still Crazy
• 1998: This Is My Father
• 1999: The Girl and the Photographer (Guinevere)
• 1999: Beyond Dreams (In Dreams)
• 1999: The End of the Affair (The End of the Affair)
• 1999: The Life Before This
• 2000: The King's Wake (voice only)
• 2001: Armadillo
• 2001: On the Edge
• 2001: Snow in August
• 2001: The Musketeer
• 2001: Horrible Histories (TV series)
• 2002: Copenhagen
• 2002: Evelyn
• 2002: FearDotCom
• 2003: Bloom
• 2004: The I Inside (The I Inside)
• 2004: Control - You Shall Not Kill (Control)
• 2004: Fluent Dysphasia
• 2004: Proud
• 2004: Romeo and Me
• 2004: The Good Shepherd
• 2004: The Halo Effect
• 2005: Breakfast on Pluto
• 2005: River Queen
• 2005: A House in Ireland (Tara Road)
• 2006: Celebration
• 2006: V for Vendetta (V for Vendetta)
• 2006: Sisters - Deadly Sisters
• 2006: Sixty Six - An Almost True Story (Sixty Six)
• 2007: Until Death
• 2007: The Reaping - The Messengers of the Apocalypse (The Reaping)
• 2007: stucco
• 2008: Kisses
• 2008: Un simple espion
• 2008: The Heavy
• 2008: Devil's Mercy
• 2008: Metamorphosis
• 2009: Purple America
• 2009: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)
• 2009: Nothing Personal
• 2009: Ondine - The Girl from the Sea (Ondine)
• 2011: Blackthorn
• 2011: The Shadow Line (TV series)
• 2012: Underworld: Awakening
• 2012: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
• 2013: Utopia (TV series)
• 2014: The Honorable Woman
• 2014: The Curse of Styria aka Styria
• 2018: Black 47 (Black '47)
• 2018: Counterpart (TV series, 7 episodes)
• 2018: Greta
• 2020: I'm silent for you ( The Stranger , TV series, eight episodes)

Web links

Commons : Stephen Rea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stephen Rea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stephen Rea in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Morgan Falconer: Stephen Rea: straight from the horse's mouth. In: The Times . August 30, 2008, accessed September 1, 2008 .