Colm Meaney Biography
Colm Meaney born on 30th May 1953 is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O’Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and starred as Thomas Durant on Hell on Wheels.
He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, and appeared in the film The Damned United, all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, and in Get Him to the Greek, as well as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Meaney was born in Glasnevin, Dublin. He began studying acting when he was 14 years old and entered the Abbey Theatre School of Acting after secondary school. He became a member of the Irish National Theatre and worked for the next eight years in England, touring with several theatre companies.
Meaney married Irish actress Bairbre Dowling in 1977, with whom he had a daughter, Brenda, in 1984. The couple divorced in 1994. He married French costume designer Ines Glorian in March 2007. They have a daughter together, Ada, born in 2005.
Colm Meaney Career
Meaney’s first television appearance was in Z-Cars on BBC 1, in 1978. He guest-starred on shows such as Remington Steele and Moonlighting before embarking on a successful film career; he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Snapper.
Meaney first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in its 1987 pilot episode, “Encounter at Farpoint”, as an unnamed helm officer. His character became a frequently recurring one, and was given the name of Miles O’Brien as he became more prominent in the crew as Transporter Chief. In 1993, Meaney left The Next Generation for a main role in its spin-off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and remained on that show until its final episode, in 1999. With 225 total appearances on Star Trek, he has made more appearances on the franchise than any other actor except Michael Dorn.
Colm Meaney
Meaney played Colum O’Hara in the 1994 miniseries Scarlett, the sequel to Gone With the Wind. He has played a minor recurring role as Cowen,[3] leader of the Genii on the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) series Stargate Atlantis, guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and appeared as Bob O’Donnell on the ABC show Men in Trees.
He was the only actor to appear in all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, wherein he played the father of the Rabbitte family. Due to rights issues, the family name was changed from film to film. His stage appearances include the Old Vic production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten. Meaney starred in British comedy film Three and Out released in the UK on 25 April 2008. In July of the same year An Post (the Irish Post Office) issued a postage stamp showing Meaney as Joe Mullen in the film Kings.
In 2009, Meaney co-starred with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in Law Abiding Citizen, wherein Meaney played Detective Dunnigan. In March 2009, Meaney guest-starred as an Irish bartender on the St. Patrick’s Day episode of The Simpsons, “In the Name of the Grandfather”. In the same month the film The Damned United was released, a mostly fictional retelling of the 44-day period in which Brian Clough was manager of Leeds United.
Meaney played the former Leeds manager Don Revie. He also co-starred in Soldiers of Fortune with Christian Slater and Ving Rhames. In 2013, Meaney co-starred with Steve Coogan in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. In 2014, he appeared as The Horse in the BBC’s three-part crime story, The Driver. For five seasons he portrayed railroad magnate Thomas Durant on AMC’s drama series Hell on Wheels.
Colm Meaney Net Worth
Colm Meaney is an Irish actor who has a net worth of $10 million dollars.
Colm Meaney Movies And TV Shows
Movies
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1981 | Nailed | Younger Protestant | |
1987 | Omega Syndrome | Sean | |
1987 | The Dead | Mr. Bergin | |
1990 | Die Hard 2 | Pilot | |
1990 | Dick Tracy | Cop at Tess’s | |
1990 | Come See the Paradise | Gerry McGurn | |
1991 | The Commitments | Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr. | |
1992 | Under Siege | Daumer | |
1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | Maj. Ambrose | |
1992 | Far and Away | Kelly | |
1992 | Into the West | Barreller | |
1993 | The Snapper | Dessie Curley | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1994 | War of the Buttons | Jerome/Geronimo’s father | |
1994 | The Road to Wellville | Dr. Lionel Badger | |
1995 | The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain | Morgan the Goat | |
1996 | The Van | Larry | |
1996 | The Last of the High Kings | Jim Davern | |
1997 | Con Air | DEA Agent Duncan Malloy | |
1997 | Owd Bob | Keith Moore | |
1998 | This Is My Father | Seamus, Owner of the Bed-and-Breakfast | |
1998 | Monument Ave. | Jackie O’Hara | a.k.a. Snitch |
1998 | 22 October | Steve | |
1998 | Claire Dolan | Roland Cain | |
1999 | Mystery, Alaska | Mayor Scott Pitcher | |
1999 | Chapter Zero | Frank Lazarus | |
1999 | Four Days | Fury | |
1999 | Most Important | Dan O’Neill | |
2001 | Backflash | Gin O’Malley | Video |
2001 | How Harry Became a Tree | Harry | Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor |
2003 | The Boys From County Clare | Jimmy | |
2003 | Intermission | Jerry Lynch | |
2004 | Blueberry | Jimmy McClure | |
2004 | Layer Cake | Gene | |
2004 | Nouvelle-France | Benjamin Franklin | |
2005 | Turning Green | Tom | |
2006 | Five Fingers | Gavin | |
2006 | A Lobster Tale | Cody | |
2007 | Kings | Joe Mullan | Nominated – Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor |
2007 | The Metrosexual | The Mayor | Great Lakes Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2008 | Clean Break | Trevor Jones | |
2008 | Three and Out | Tommy | |
2009 | The Damned United | Don Revie | |
2009 | The Race | Frank Kensay | |
2009 | Law Abiding Citizen | Detective Dunnigan | |
2010 | Get Him to the Greek | Jonathan Snow | |
2010 | Alleged | H. L. Mencken | |
2010 | Parked | Fred Daly | |
2010 | The Conspirator | Gen. David Hunter | |
2011 | El Perfecto Desconocido | Mark O’Reilly | |
2012 | Whole Lotta Sole | Detective Weller | known as Stand Off in North America |
2012 | Bel Ami | Monsieur Rousset | |
2012 | Soldiers of Fortune | Carter Mason | |
2012 | The Hot Potato | Harry | |
2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Pat Farrell | |
2013 | One Chance | Roland Potts | |
2013 | A Belfast Story | Detective | |
2013 | Free Birds | Myles Standish (voice) | |
2014 | The Devil’s Hand | Elder Beacon | |
2016 | Norm of the North | Grandfather (voice) | |
2016 | Pelé: Birth of a Legend | George Raynor | |
2016 | The Journey | Martin McGuinness | |
2016 | The Secrets of Emily Blair | Father Avital | |
2017 | Halal Daddy | Martin Logan | |
2018 | Tolkien | Father Francis | In post-production |
TBA | Against All Enemies | In post-production |
Tv
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | Z-Cars | McGlin | Episode: “Pressure” |
1981 | Les roses de Dublin | Michael Kavanaugh | Miniseries |
1982 | Play for Tomorrow | Kevin Murphy | Episode: “Easter 2016” |
1982 | Strangers | Smollett | Episode: “Charlie’s Brother’s Birthday (Part 1) |
1983 | Playboy of the Western World | Shawn | Television film |
1984 | The Hidden Curriculum | David Dunn | Television film |
1986 | Moonlighting | Katharina Suitor | Episode: “Atomic Shakespeare” |
1987 | Remington Steele | Man in Tavern | Episode: “Steele Hanging in There: Part 2” |
1987 | Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues | Tinkerer | Television film |
1987 | Tales from the Darkside | Constable | Episode: “Beetles” |
1987–88 | One Life to Live | Patrick London | |
1987–1994 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Chief Miles O’Brien | 52 episodes |
1989 | Perfect Witness | Meagher | Television film |
1990 | Equal Justice | Nucchi | Episode: “The Art of the Possible” |
1990 | Father Dowling Mysteries | Ernie | Episode: “The Undercover Nun Mystery” |
1991 | The New Adam-12 | Father | Episode: “Panic in Alverez Park” |
1991 | MacGyver | Dr. Irwin Malcolm | Episode: “Good Knight MacGyver: Part 1” |
1993 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Jake Slicker | Episode: “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” |
1993 | Brooklyn Bridge | Mr. Kramer | Episode: “Good as Gold” |
1993–99 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Chief Miles O’Brien | 173 episodes |
1994 | Scarlett | Father Colum O’Hara | 2 episodes |
1996 | Gargoyles | Mr. Dugan (voice) | Episode: “The Hound of Ulster” |
1998 | Money Kings | Al Sheehan | Television film; a.k.a. Vig |
1999 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Seamus Muldoon | Television film |
2002 | Random Passage | Thomas Hutchings | Miniseries Nominated – Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series |
2002 | King of Texas | Mr. Tumlinson | Television film |
2004 | The Murdoch Mysteries | Inspector Brackenreid | 2 episodes |
2004 | Bad Apple | Gibbons | Television film |
2004, 2006 | Stargate Atlantis | Chief Cowen | 3 episodes |
2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Judge Harold Garrett | Episode: In the Wee Small Hours |
2006 | The Unit | Charge D’Affaires | Episode: “Security” |
2006 | Caved In: Prehistoric Terror | Vincent | Television film |
2006 | Covert One: The Hades Factor | Peter Howell | Television film |
2007 | Men in Trees | Bob O’Donnell | 2 episodes |
2008 | Law & Order | Wyatt Landon | Episode: “Lost Boys” |
2009 | The Simpsons | Tom O’Flanagan (voice) | Episode: “In the Name of the Grandfather” |
2009 | Alice | King of Hearts | Miniseries |
2009 | ZOS: Zone of Separation | George Titac | Miniseries |
2009 | Mercy | Dr. Parks | Episode: “I Believe You Conrad” |
2011–16 | Hell on Wheels | Thomas “Doc” Durant | 51 episodes Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2013) Nominated – Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor TV (2013) |
2014 | The Driver | The Horse | 3 episodes |
2015 | Childhood’s End | Wainwright | Episode: “The Overlords” |
2017 | Will | James Burbage | 10 episodes |
Colm Meaney Star Trek
Chief Petty Officer Miles Edward O’Brien, played by Colm Meaney, is a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. O’Brien was originally the transporter chief of the USS Enterprise-D. He was later promoted to Chief of Operations of Deep Space Nine, and he also serves on the USS Defiant which is operated from that space station.
O’Brien is the only major Star Trek character described as both ethnically Irish and born on Earth in Ireland. Although not a member of bridge crew, he appears in over 50 TNG episodes, almost double the amount of Tasha Yar, and also more than semi-regular Ten-Forward confidant Guinan. On Deep Space Nine the character and his family’s story continue, and he is reunited with Worf in Season 4 of Deep Space Nine. Miles is often shown working on the Space Station, hanging out with Bashir or other main cast members, or going on away-missions on Runabouts or the USS Defiant.
Colm Meaney Hell On Wheels
Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series, which featured Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, and Dominique McElligott, chronicled the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile encampment, called “Hell on Wheels”, that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains.
In particular, the story focused on Cullen Bohannon (Mount), a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War. The series, which broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, aired from November 6, 2011 to July 23, 2016.
The series was created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton, and developed by Endemol USA, under the stewardship of senior vice-president of scripted programming Jeremy Gold, and it is produced by Entertainment One and Nomadic Pictures. In 2012, AMC announced creators Joe and Tony Gayton were no longer involved in the day-to-day production of the series. On December 12, 2012, AMC announced that writer John Wirth would take over as showrunner for the third season.
Season one (2011–12) began in 1865, shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, season two (2012) covered 1866, seasons three (2013) and four (2014) opened in 1867, season five (2015–16) carries the series into 1869. On November 7, 2014, Hell on Wheels was renewed for a fifth and final season comprising 14 episodes, split between 2015 and 2016.
Colm Meaney The Van
The Van is a 1996 film, based on the novel The Van (the third in The Barrytown Trilogy) by Roddy Doyle. Like The Snapper (1993), it was directed by Stephen Frears. (The first movie of the trilogy, The Commitments (1991), was directed by Alan Parker). It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
Brendan “Bimbo” Reeves gets laid off from his job as a baker in Barrytown, a working-class quarter of Dublin. With his redundancy cheque, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his best mate, Larry. Due, in part, to Ireland’s surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well. But the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo and his wife, Maggie behave more and more like typical bosses.
Larry believes that Maggie is the cause of the strained friendship, as he thinks she is pushing Bimbo away from him. The van is closed down because of poor hygiene by health inspector, Des O’Callaghan. Bimbo thinks that Larry told the Health Board about the van, leading to a fight between the two. Larry quits the job, despite Bimbo’s best efforts to get him back. Bimbo then drives the van into the sea, so as to win his friendship with Larry back.
Colm Meaney The Snapper
The Snapper is a 1993 Irish television film which was directed by Stephen Frears and starred Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson. The film is based on the novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, about the Rabbitte family and their domestic adventures. For his performance, Meaney was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Young Sharon Curley becomes pregnant, but refuses to tell anyone who the father is. She decides to keep the baby (“snapper”) and her family, each in their own way, eventually decides to support her. Her father particularly studies up on childbirth and female anatomy (with gratifying results for his wife as a bonus).
Soon after a wild night at the pub, twenty-year-old Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) finds herself expecting a little “snapper” by a man she loathes. Her refusal to name the father sets in motion a family drama involving her three brothers, two sisters, and her parents, along with her employers and all her friends.
Kellegher, playing the role as a coarse, earthy, yet remarkably sensible young woman (with the exception of her excessive drinking during her pregnancy) soon discovers who her friends really are, as some people tease and torment her, some make remarks to her siblings, some force her father to take direct action in her defence, and all spread gossip.
Des Curley (Colm Meaney), Sharon’s father, shows the whole world in his face, his emotions ranging from outrage toward Sharon for embarrassing the family to tender concern as her time draws near. As the eight-member family trips all over each other emotionally (symbolised in their battles for the one bathroom, often occupied by Sharon), the tensions within the family grow more intense.
Widespread speculation about who the father is disrupts the neighbourhood, with some hotheads visiting their own brand of justice on the Curleys. The arrival of the baby offers a chance at resolution. It turns out that Sharon’s friend’s father, Georgie Burgess (Pat Laffan), got her pregnant after a night of heavy drinking. Sharon’s story is that it was a Spanish sailor, but the whole town suspects the truth.
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