Pádraic Delaney

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Pádraic Delaney (born November 6, 1977 in Adamstown , County Wexford ) is an Irish theater and film actor .

Life

Delaney was born in 1977 in a small village in south east Ireland; he has three older brothers and two younger sisters. After attending school in his hometown, he began studying civil engineering , which he dropped out after four months. Instead, he studied at the Beckett Center of Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor in Drama & Theater Studies from.

Delaney started his career in the theater with roles a. a. in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream . In 2003 he was seen for the first time in a short film and from 2005 several times in television film roles, with the lead role in an RTÉ series (2006). He had his breakthrough as a film actor in 2006 as Teddy O'Donovan in The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach . The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and Delaney was nominated for two Irish Film and Television Awards in 2007. This was followed by two more roles in feature films and in 2007/2008 a role in the TV series The Tudors . In addition, Delaney can also be seen in the theater, at the end of 2007 at the Tricycle Theater in London as a Catholic priest in a play by John Patrick Shanley .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

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