Known For
Acting
Born
May 30, 1959
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Credits
35 titles
Owen Roe
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.
Known For
Filmography
Finnegan's Foursome
The Roots
Sebastian Quintana
King Frankie
Aidan
The Hardacres
Lord George Fitzherbert
Dead and Buried
Jack Sullivan
The Christmas Break
Calum Reilly
Wickedly Evil
The Chief
Der Irland-Krimi: Mond über Galway
Jonathan Carroll
Abe's Story
Various Roles (voice)
Pursuit
Mr. King
Penny Dreadful
Colonel Brewster
The Walshes
Martin
The Ice Cream Girls
Jim
Vikings
Count Odo
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Sir Norman Hill
Saving the Titanic
White Star Lawyer
Sensation
Liam
When Harvey Met Bob
Tony Powell
Val Falvey, TD
Pat Daly
Rásaí na Gaillimhe
Tommy Lacey
Wide Open Spaces
Gerard Ring
Alarm
Joe / Mossie
The Shadow in the North
Bram Stoker
Breakfast on Pluto
Dean
Intermission
Mr. Henderson
When the Sky Falls
DDU: District Detective Unit
Det. Garda Paul Hyland
Ulys
voice
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
Joe
Michael Collins
Arthur Griffith
Loving
Michael Mathewson
Ballykissangel
Paul Dooley
Frankie Starlight
Senior Customs Officer
Scarlett
Tim O'Hara
The Treaty
George Gavan Duffy