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This is a list of notable Irish American actors. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Irish American and a notable actor. The list is organized in reverse chronological order of birth decades and all of the actors' surnames are in alphabetical order.
His role in the black comedy film In Bruges (2008) earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Other notable film roles include The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Fright Night (2011), Total Recall , Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Lobster (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016 ...
This list of notable actors from Ireland includes performers in film, television, stage, and radio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Treat Williams, the Hair and Everwood star, is being mourned by Hollywood.. The 71-year-old actor, whose career spanned six decades, died Monday afternoon after a motorcycle accident near Dorset ...
Denton Cooley - American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. He was one of the most-renowned heart surgeons in the world. Randall C. O'Reilly - Professor of Psychology and Computer Science. He is most famous for developing the Leabra recirculating algorithm for learning in neural ...
McDonald has portrayed several notable real-life people, including game show host Jack Barry in Quiz Show (1994), mountaineer Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air: Death on Everest on ABC (1997), sportscaster Mel Allen in the HBO film 61* (2001), Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio in ESPN's The Bronx Is Burning (2007), U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty ...
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played ...
Days after he finished filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — in which he played Marcus Belby — the 18-year-old actor was stabbed to death. The incident occurred on May 24, 2008 ...