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Owen Roe
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Biography
Owen Roe is one of Ireland’s foremost film, TV and theatre actors. Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s. Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in Hamlet. He also won a Special Tribute Award at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019. He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991. On TV, Roe has appeared on Scarlett, The Ambassador, Ballykissangel, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, Penny Dreadful, Vikings and Fair City., and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including Michael Collins (as Arthur Griffith), Intermission and Breakfast on Pluto. He has received three IFTA nominations. On radio, Roe was one-third of the Scrap Saturday political satire series, and is best remembered for his impression of P. J. Mara, loyal adviser to Charles Haughey. He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.
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Sebastian Quintana
The Roots
2025
7.5
Aidan
King Frankie
2024
7.7
Lord George Fitzherbert
The Hardacres
2024
4.9
Jack Sullivan
Dead and Buried
2024
5.8
Calum Reilly
The Christmas Break
2023
6.7
The Chief
Wickedly Evil
2023
6.5
Jonathan Carroll
Irish Crime: Moon Over Galway
2023
6.0
Various Roles (voice)
Abe's Story
2019
4.0
Mr. King
Pursuit
2015
7.8
Colonel Brewster
Penny Dreadful
2014
Credits
The Roots
as Sebastian Quintana
2025
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King Frankie
as Aidan
2024
7.5
The Hardacres
as Lord George Fitzherbert
2024
7.7
Dead and Buried
as Jack Sullivan
2024
4.9
The Christmas Break
as Calum Reilly
2023
5.8
Wickedly Evil
as The Chief
2023
6.7
Irish Crime: Moon Over Galway
as Jonathan Carroll
2023
6.5
Abe's Story
as Various Roles (voice)
2019
6.0
Pursuit
as Mr. King
2015
4.0
Penny Dreadful
as Colonel Brewster
2014
7.8
The Walshes
as Martin
2014
8.3
The Ice Cream Girls
as Jim
2013
6.6
Vikings
as Count Odo
2013
8.1
Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Sir Norman Hill
2012
7.2
Saving the Titanic
as White Star Lawyer
2012
7.9
Sensation
as Liam
2011
4.9
When Harvey Met Bob
as Tony Powell
2010
6.6
Val Falvey, TD
as Pat Daly
2009
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Wide Open Spaces
as Gerard Ring
2009
3.5
Alarm
as Joe / Mossie
2008
4.1
The Shadow in the North
as Bram Stoker
2007
6.5
Breakfast on Pluto
as Dean
2005
7.2
Intermission
as Mr. Henderson
2003
6.1
When the Sky Falls
2000
4.6
Ulys
as voice
1998
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Soft Sand, Blue Sea
as Joe
1998
6.0
Michael Collins
as Arthur Griffith
1996
6.9
Loving
as Michael Mathewson
1996
1.0
Ballykissangel
as Paul Dooley
1996
6.9
Frankie Starlight
as Senior Customs Officer
1995
5.0
Scarlett
as Tim O'Hara
1994
6.5
The Treaty
as George Gavan Duffy
1991
6.0