Brian Gleeson
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Biography: Brian Gleeson is an Irish actor. Gleeson was born in Dublin, the son of actor Brendan Gleeson and his wife Mary (Weldon). He is the brother of actor Domhnall Gleeson and writer Rúairí Gleeson. He grew up in Malahide, Dublin. As a child, he appeared in school plays, before joining the Gaiety's Youth Theatre Company. Gleeson started acting in 2006, first appearing alongside his father in The Tiger's Tail directed by John Boorman, which was filmed the year he completed the Leaving Certificate. In 2010, Gleeson appeared as Hughie in the first season of Love/Hate, and earned a nomination for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for the role. He also appeared in the Hollywood film The Eagle. He appeared in the 2012 Academy Award nominated film Snow White and the Huntsman. Gleeson portrayed the lead role in Standby opposite Jessica Paré in 2014. The same year, he filmed Tiger Raid, an Iraq War drama; it was released in 2016. Along with his father Brendan and brother Domhnall, Gleeson appeared in the Enda Walsh play The Walworth Farce in early 2015. He starred as Jimmy in the 2016 Irish drama series Rebellion, based on the 1916 Easter Rising.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: November 14, 1987
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Gender: Male
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The Tiger's Tail
Overview: After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Snow White and the Huntsman
Overview: After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Wake Wood
Overview: The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Noreen
Overview: Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour who called the police. What can possibly happen there? The most unexpected!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-24
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Stay
Overview: A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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The Stag
Overview: At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of Ireland. Much to their chagrin, these modern men are joined by the brother of the bride, a crazy, unpredictable alpha male known as “The Machine”, and an explosive Id to their collective Ego. The Machine is a force of nature, and under his leadership, the men—stripped of modern comfort, convenience and, finally, clothing—must begin their journey into the wild.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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How to be Happy
Overview: Following a bad breakup, relationship councilor Cormac Kavanagh starts sleeping with his clients in a misguided attempt to reignite their passions.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-14
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Standby
Overview: Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. It's there he comes face to face with first love Alice (Paré), stuck on standby for a flight home to New York. Their summer romance ended eight years previously with Alan promising to return to the US one day. He never did, and they haven't spoken since. Seizing his chance, Alan convinces a reluctant Alice to stay one more night in Dublin. Over the course of an unforgettable evening, they may just realise that they are more compatible than ever. But time is running out on this brief encounter. When does an unexpected second chance, become the one you've always been looking for? - Written by Wildcard Distribution
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-14
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The Eagle
Overview: In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-08
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Overview: A troubled teenage sharpshooter decides to avenge the death of her estranged sister after she is found murdered in a public bathroom.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Coda
Overview: A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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What Will Survive of Us
Overview: We meet John and Noreen, two young lovers from Boyle, Roscommon, at a turning point in their lives together. John wants to move the relationship forward in a certain way, but Noreen is less willing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-01
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Assassin's Creed
Overview: Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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History's Future
Overview: Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Tiger Raid
Overview: While on a covert mission, two cold blooded mercenaries form an unlikely bond as they race across the desert in the dead of night. When their violent and desperate world implodes, past atrocities come to the surface threatening to tear each of them apart.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Craggy Confidant
Overview: We look in on two men, Jim and his insurance agent Pete, as Jim's stolen car is revealed to be part of an eccentric and fraudulent plan that he seems to have no say in.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
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Logan Lucky
Overview: Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-17
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mother!
Overview: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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The Flag
Overview: Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Hellboy
Overview: Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-10
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Phantom Thread
Overview: In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Psychic
Overview: A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-15
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National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview: Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-22
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Angela's Christmas
Overview: A trip to church with her family on Christmas Eve gives young Angela an extraordinary idea. A heartwarming tale based on a story by Frank McCourt.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Death of a Ladies' Man
Overview: A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-12
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Life's a Breeze
Overview: An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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