Donagh Deeney

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Donagh Deeney (born 1957 or 1958) is an Irish television, theater and film actor .

Career

As a young man, Deeney had mainly played theater and had worked with his colleague Colm Quilligan, two years his senior, as a Dublin pub poet since 1988. “Since 1988, singing and declaiming, they have guided around 22,000 people through the city on the trail of true and fictional characters. Four pubs per tour, changing routes depending on the weather, ” Die Zeit reported on July 11, 1997. Deeny made his first appearance in front of the camera in 1998 in the short film The Last Shout , in which he played one of the leading roles. The black comedy presents three elderly Dubliners sitting in a pub when the world suddenly ends.

In 2001 he was one of the actors in the short comedy Tubberware , which portrays the Connemara region in western Ireland and casts a satirical view of the negative effects of tourism in a formerly peaceful place. He was cast in a small role as Magnani in the 2003 crime comedy The Actors . The tragic comedy Turning Green (2005), set in Ireland in the late 1970s, tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who is forced to live with his three Irish aunts after the death of his mother . In 2007 and 2009 Deeney took part in two smaller roles based on Rosamunde Pilcher , on the one hand in the story Nebel über Kilrush Castle and two years later in Heart's Longing .

In the 2011 comedic television series Mattie , he starred in two episodes in the role of Ned Carr. The following year he played the role of Winterfell Shepherd in the hit television series Game of Thrones : A Song of Ice and Fire . In the same year he worked in an episode of the Irish television series Execution . In the Irish soap opera Ros na Rún he was cast as Eric O'Shea in 35 episodes from 2016 to 2018.

Donagh Deeney can also be seen on various stages, for example he played Tom in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie or Baron Bertie in Cinderella and Con Sweeney in Philadelphia Here I Come , a play by Irish playwright Brian Friel .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1998: The Last Shout (short film)
  • 2001: Tubberware (short film)
  • 2001: The Crooked Mile
  • 2002: Saturday (short film)
  • 2003: The Actors
  • 2003: intermission
  • 2005: Turning Green
  • 2006: Spota (short film)
  • 2007: Rosamunde Pilcher: Fog over Kilrush Castle
  • 2008: Team Sleep / Foireann Codladh (short film)
  • 2009: Rosamunde Pilcher: Heart's longing
  • 2009: Val Falvey TD (TV series, episode Dis Dat Dese Dose )
  • 2009: Free Chips Forever (short film)
  • 2011: Corp & Anam (TV series, episode 1.1)
  • 2011: Mattie (TV series, episodes of New Beginnings and Twitterings )
  • 2012: Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire (TV series, episodes The Ghost of Harrenhal and A Man Without Honor )
  • 2012: Execution (TV series)
  • 2014: The Pathologist - Murderous Dublin ( Quirke , TV miniseries, episode Elegy for April )
  • 2015: Charlie (TV miniseries, episode GUBU)
  • 2016–2018: Ros na Rún (TV series, 35 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When it rained soup in Ireland ... Report in Die Zeit , issue 29/1997
  2. ↑ Donagh Deeney at Castaway Actors (English).
  3. ↑ Deeney, Donagh - View Lightbox see page stillslibrary.rt.ie (English).
  4. ↑ Short Film - The Last Shout see page filmbase.ie (English).
  5. ↑ Ros na Rún see page rosnarun.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Deeney, Donagh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish television, film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957 or 1958