Kieran O'Brien
Also Known As: Keiran O'Brien
Biography: O'Brien grew up in nearby Royton and was educated at the Bishop Henshaw Roman Catholic Memorial High School in Rochdale. He began acting at an early age and was the star of a BBC TV series Gruey by the time he was 15. He also featured in several other series at the time in one-off or recurring roles. In 1993, he played the role of Craig Lee in Coronation Street and then the role of Lee Jones in Children's Ward. In 1993 he also became a regular in the detective series, Cracker, playing Mark, the son of central character Robbie Coltrane. In 1999 he made his cinema debut with the film Virtual Sexuality and began a reunited with Cracker director Michael Winterbottom for 24 Hour Party People in 2002 and, in '04, for the controversial 9 Songs, which included scenes of genuine sexual intercourse between O'Brien and his leading lady Margo Stilley. His role had earned him the credit of being the only mainstream British actor who has been shown ejaculating in a mainstream UK-produced feature. Since 9 Songs, O'Brien has made two further films with Winterbottom; A Cock and Bull Story and The Look of Love. Recent regular TV roles include Holby Blue and The Syndicate.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK
Birthday: January 23, 1973
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Gender: Male
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9 Songs
Overview: Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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Virtual Sexuality
Overview: A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-02
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Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Overview: Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-17
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Goal!
Overview: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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Goal II: Living the Dream
Overview: Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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The Shock Doctrine
Overview: An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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Bellman and True
Overview: Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-12
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The Look of Love
Overview: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Monster Maker
Overview: A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under his wing. Literally.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-23
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A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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24 Hour Party People
Overview: Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-13
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The Watchman
Overview: CCTV operator Carl becomes frustrated when the police refuse to tackle a gang of drug dealers. He takes the law into his own hands with devastating repercussions.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-24
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Peterloo
Overview: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Spike Island
Overview: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Holmes & Watson
Overview: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary wits and ingenious methods to catch the killer as they only have four days before the queen becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Cracker: Nine Eleven
Overview: After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-30
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The Following Year
Overview: The near future. The day of his anniversary a widower receives the clone of the woman he lost years ago under tragic circumstances.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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