Brendan O'Carroll

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Brendan O'Carroll (born September 15, 1955 in Finglas , Dublin ) is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor and director. He is best known for portraying the foul-hearted matriarch Agnes Loretta Brown on the British sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys .

Life

O'Carroll's mother Maureen was an MP for the Irish Labor Party and his father Gerard was a carpenter ; he says his parents had a huge impact on his life. At the age of only 12 he left school and worked as a waiter and milkman, among other things.

From 1977 to 1999 he was married to Doreen O'Carroll. In 2005 he married Jennifer Gibney . He has four children: Brendan, Danny, Fiona and Eric. His first son, Brendan, named after him, died at the age of only four years of complications from the neural tube defect spina bifida . Danny and Fiona play alongside other family members in Mrs. Brown's Boys .

O'Carroll's paternal grandfather, Peter O'Carroll, was shot dead on October 16, 1920 at home in Manor Street, Dublin. The killer was exposed as Jocelyn Lee Hardy in David Neligan's (a British double agent during the Irish War of Independence under Michael Collins ).

O'Carroll is a member of Mensa International and a supporter of Manchester United and Liverpool FC .

Career

O'Carroll began his career in 1992 when he became known for the radio piece Mrs Brown's Boys ; the four books The Mammy , The Granny , The Chisellers and The Scrapper followed . In 1999, on his book was published The Mammy based film women among themselves , in which Anjelica Huston , the director led, and also the leading role played; he worked on the script for the film .

Because of the success, he decided to start his own family theater called Mrs. Brown's Boys .

From 1999 to 2009 he wrote five plays. In 2011 these were adapted for television as a sitcom and until 2014 a total of 25 episodes were broadcast in three seasons on RTÉ One and BBC One ; in parallel, there have been several stage tours within the UK since 2011 .

The movie Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie was released in UK theaters on June 27, 2014 and stayed at number one among new releases for two weeks. Although the film was a hit with the public, it received scathing reviews.

Filmography

Movie

year Movie role
1996 Fish & Chips ( The Van ) Weslie
1999 Women among themselves ( Agnes Browne ) Seamus
2014 Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie Agnes Brown and Mr. Wang

watch TV

year title role
2004 Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere Gypsy Joe
2011-present Mrs. Brown's Boys Agnes Brown
2013 The Security Men Jimmy
2015 Mrs Brown's Boys: The Animated Series Agnes Brown

stage

year title role
1999 Mrs Brown's Last Wedding Agnes Brown
2002, 2012, 2014 Mrs. Brown Rides Again
2002, 2011–12 Good Mourning Mrs. Brown
2007, 2013 For The Love of Mrs Brown
2009, 2015 How Now Mrs. Brown Cow

Awards

  • BAFTA Award for Mrs Brown's Boys , 2012
  • RTÉ People of the Year Award , 2013
  • BAFTA Award Scotland for Mrs Brown's Boys , 2012 and 2015
  • IFTA Award for Mrs Brown's Boys , 2012
  • National Television Award UK for Mrs Brown's Boys , 2013 and 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Canices Girls National School . ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stcanicesgns.ie
  2. ^ Ronan McGreevy: Necessity the mammy of invention as O'Carroll's Mrs Brown is up for Bafta . In: The Irish Times , April 27, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Patrick Smith: Another 'Mushy' moment? In: The Daily Telegraph , August 29, 2014
  4. ↑ Brendan O'Carroll - Who Do You Think You Are - Brendan discovers the truth about his grandfather's murder in the 1920s ... Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Carroll, Brendan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor, writer and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Finglas , Dublin, Ireland