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Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is a Golden Globe award-nominated Irish actor who has starred in many high profile Irish, American and British films. His best-known movies include the Harry Potter films, Kingdom of Heaven, Beowulf, Troy, Gangs of New York, 28 Days Later, In Bruges, Braveheart, The General and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty.
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Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is a Golden Globe award-nominated Irish actor who has starred in many high profile Irish, American and British films. His best-known movies include the Harry Potter films, Kingdom of Heaven, Beowulf, Troy, Gangs of New York, 28 Days Later, In Bruges, Braveheart, The General and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty.
Biography
Personal life
Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland. He has said that he was an avid reader as a child. After leaving school, he worked for two years in an office with a health board. He later graduated from University College Dublin. Gleeson then worked for several years as a secondary school teacher in Belcamp College, in North County Dublin, where he taught English and Drama.
Gleeson lives in Malahide, County Dublin.
Gleeson is also a very talented fiddle player, with an interest in folklore. He has long been known for his love of football and recounts tales of attempting to get a clear radio reception so he could listen to how his team, Aston Villa was faring on a Saturday.
Career
Gleeson started acting at the age of 34. He first came to prominence in Ireland for his role as Michael Collins in The Treaty a television film broadcast on RTÉ One, and for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1992.
Gleeson has subsequently acted in more than 60 films including Braveheart, I Went Down, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Lake Placid, Artificial Intelligence: AI and The Village. He won critical acclaim for his performance as Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman's 1998 film The General.
While Gleeson played Michael Collins in The Treaty, he later portrayed Liam Tobin in the film Michael Collins with Liam Neeson taking the role of Collins.
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Ironically, Gleeson later went on to portray Collins' nemesis Winston Churchill in Churchill at War.
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Gleeson frequently appears in the role of mentor or authority figure; he played Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody in the fourth and fifth Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Roger Ebert described him as having a "noble shambles of a face and the heft of a boxer gone to seed" in praising his performance in In Bruges, in which Gleeson played a mentor-like figure for Colin Farrell's hitman., a role that garnered him his first Golden Globe nomination, among other accolades. Gleeson provides the voice of Abbot Cellach in The Secret of Kells, an animated film by Cartoon Saloon which premieres at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in February 2009.
He starred in the short film Six Shooter in 2006, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.
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