Robert Sheehan
Robert Michael Sheehan (born January 7, 1988 in Port Laoise ) is an Irish actor . He became known to a wide audience for his role in the British television series Misfits , which won the 2010 BAFTA Award in the “Best Drama Series” category.
Life
Sheehan is the son of Maria and Joe Sheehan. He has an older sister and an older brother. His acting talent was already evident in school performances during his primary school days in St. Paul in Portlaoise. At the age of fourteen, he was cast through a casting for the film Song for a Raggy Boy . A year later, recordings for the sixteen-part series Foreign Exchange followed , in which he played the role of Cormac MacNamara.
In 2005 he studied for a year at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, but dropped out and went to college because he would rather be an actor.
Since then, he has appeared in a number of films including A Dublin Story , Ghostwood , An Créatúr , Summer of the Flying Saucer and Season of the Witch . On television he was hired for various series such as Foreign , Young Blades and the two-parter The Tudors .
Sheehan received a leading role in the British drama Cherrybomb in 2008 in which he can be seen with Rupert Grint . From 2009 to 2010 he played Nathan Young in the series Misfits . Films like The Last Templar Knight , Chronicles of the Underworld - City of Bones and other series like Love / Hate and Me and Mrs Jones followed . Since 2019 he can be seen in the role of Klaus in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy .
In addition to direct film, he also takes on speaking roles like in Sammy's Adventure - The Search for the Secret Passage , where he speaks Ray in the English version, together with Anthony Anderson .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 2003: Song for a Raggy Boy
- 2006: Ghostwood
- 2009: Cherrybomb
- 2010: Sammy's Adventure - The Search for the Secret Passage (Sammy's avonturen: De Secret doorgang , speaking role)
- 2011: A Case for The Borrowers
- 2011: Killing Bono
- 2011: Demons Never Die
- 2011: The Last Knight Templar (Season of the Witch)
- 2013: Chronicles of the Underworld - City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones)
- 2014: Anita B.
- 2014: The Road Within
- 2015: Moonwalkers
- 2017: Geostorm
- 2018: Mute
- 2018: Bad Samaritan
- 2018: Mortal Engines: War of the Cities (Mortal Engines)
Short films
- 2006: To Créatúr
- 2011: Coming Up Dip
- 2012: Lowland Fell
watch TV
- 2004: Foreign Exchange
- 2008: The Tudors (The Tudors)
- 2009: Yorkshire Killer (Red Riding)
- 2009–2011: Misfits
- 2010: Love / Hate
- 2012: Me and Mrs. Jones
- 2017: Fortitude
- 2017: Genius: Picasso
- since 2019: The Umbrella Academy
Web links
- Robert Sheehan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Sheehan's official biography on robert-sheehan.com, accessed February 28, 2014.
- ↑ Sammy's Adventure - Finding the Secret Passage on the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 28, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheehan, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheehan, Robert Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portlaoise |