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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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Breakfast on Pluto
Overview: In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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When the Sky Falls
Overview: Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-26
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Der Irland-Krimi: Mond über Galway
Overview: Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake is called to an emergency in the middle of the night: A young woman is threatening to throw herself to her death from a high-rise building. Cathrin knows the disturbed woman – Moon Flynn was in therapy with Cathrin a few years ago for a borderline disorder, but stopped it prematurely.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-19
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The Christmas Break
Overview: A married couple travel from Chicago to spend Christmas with the wife's family in a small town in Ireland. This is a holiday which will test their patience—and their marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-15
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Michael Collins
Overview: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Genres: War Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Frankie Starlight
Overview: The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Alarm
Overview: A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friends
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-11
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Wickedly Evil
Overview: A group of criminals lay low in the remote Irish countryside after pulling off an audacious robbery. As they plan their escape they quickly realise the robbery will be the last thing to go right for them.
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-13
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Intermission
Overview: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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King Frankie
Overview: Following the death of his father, the past catches up with Dublin taxi driver, Frank Burke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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Sensation
Overview: Man-boy farmer Donal discovers that his father has suddenly passed away. Now on his own, Donal attempts to lose his virginity by hiring a prostitute to help him get out of his rut. And so he meets Kim, an aging Kiwi escort. After engaging in a strictly sexual encounter, their relationship soon progresses into a lusty romance, then to a business enterprise between two partners. Through these exploits, Donal and Kim provide each other with a sense of love and belonging that neither experienced beforehand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Pursuit
Overview: Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-10
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The Treaty
Overview: How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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The Shadow in the North
Overview: Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-15
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Loving
Overview: An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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When Harvey Met Bob
Overview: Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-26
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Wide Open Spaces
Overview: Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard, to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-19
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Saving the Titanic
Overview: In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-15
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Soft Sand, Blue Sea
Overview: 13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-25
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Abe's Story
Overview: In the late Victorian era, Abe, a burdened Irish aspiring writer, assistant to Henry, a world-famous stage actor, finds the inspiration to create his sinister novel about a bloody character through the adventures he has while traveling the world with his boss' theatrical troupe.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-13
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