Colm Meaney

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Colm Meaney at the premiere of The Journey at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Colm Meaney (2007)

Colm Meaney (born May 30, 1953 in Dublin ) is an Irish actor, best known for his Star Trek role as Miles O'Brien and his roles in Stephen Frears ' Roddy Doyle trilogy.

Career

Colm Meaney began taking acting classes at the Abbey Theater School of Acting at the age of 14, and a year later he became a member of the National Theater of Ireland . He spent eight years in England as a stage actor. He also made his first contacts with television.

Meaney was best known in the role of transporter chief and later chief engineer Miles Edward O'Brien in the television series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Between these series engagements, Meaney starred in the 1992 pilot for Dr. Quinn - a passionate doctor the role of Jake Slicker, which was taken over by the actor Jim Knobeloch from the second episode .

In addition, he was mainly seen as the prototype of the common man in numerous English and Irish productions, such as The Englishman Who Climbed a Hill and Comed Down a Mountain and The Commitments . For his performance in the film The Snapper - Help a Baby! he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1994 . Meaney was cast against the grain in 2003 as a particularly die-hard cop in Intermission , directed by John Crowley. In Stargate Atlantis he had a recurring guest role as the leader of the alien people of the Genii .

In the feature film El perfecto Desconocido (2011) by the Mallorcan director Toni Bestard, the “ Mallorcan by choice ” who has a house in Sóller shone ; he was honored for the role of Irish Mark O'Reilly as best actor at the Tiburón Film Festival (USA).

From 2011 to 2016, Meaney played businessman Thomas "Doc" Durant in the western television series Hell on Wheels . Meanwhile, in 2013 he stood in front of the camera alongside Rufus Sewell and Anne Heche for the thriller Where the Devil Hides (2014).

Private life

Meaney married Irish actress Bairbre Dowling in 1977 . The marriage resulted in a daughter in 1984. In 1994 the divorce took place. In 2004 Meaney met French costume designer Inés Glorian while filming Blueberry and the Curse of the Demons . Their daughter was born in 2005. The couple has been married since 2007.

Dubbing voice

Meaney does not have a permanent voice actor in Germany. Most often Roland Hemmo lends him his voice.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Colm Meaney (2011)
The actors from Star Trek: DS9: Marc Alaimo ( Gul Dukat ), Armin Shimerman ( Quark ) and Colm Meaney ( Chief O'Brien )

TV Shows

Web links

Commons : Colm Meaney  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tiburon International Film Festival Golden Reel Award Winners. Tiburon International Film Festival, April 27, 2012, accessed on September 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Colm Meaney Falls Victim to The Occult
  3. ^ Meaney: still cursing after all these years at independent.ie, accessed on February 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Meaney, Colm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin