Name
Owen Roe
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1959-05-30 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
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.
Known For
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- 2005 Breakfast on Pluto as Dean
- 2000 When the Sky Falls
- 2023 Der Irland-Krimi: Mond über Galway as Jonathan Carroll
- 2023 The Christmas Break as Calum Reilly
- 1996 Michael Collins as Arthur Griffith
- 1995 Frankie Starlight as Senior Customs Officer
- 2008 Alarm as Joe / Mossie
- 2023 Wickedly Evil as The Chief
- 2003 Intermission as Mr. Henderson
- 2024 King Frankie as Aidan
- 2011 Sensation as Liam
- 2015 Pursuit as Mr. King
- 1991 The Treaty as George Gavan Duffy
- 2007 The Shadow in the North as Bram Stoker
- 1996 Loving as Michael Mathewson
- 2010 When Harvey Met Bob as Tony Powell
- 2009 Wide Open Spaces as Gerard Ring
- 2012 Saving the Titanic as White Star Lawyer
- 1998 Soft Sand, Blue Sea as Joe
- 2019 Abe's Story as Various Roles (voice)
- 2025 The Roots as Sebastian Quintana
- 1998 Ulys as voice
- 2026 Finnegan's Foursome
- 2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel ( 1 episode ) as Sir Norman Hill
- 2013 Vikings ( 12 episodes ) as Count Odo
- 1996 Ballykissangel ( 8 episodes ) as Paul Dooley
- 2014 Penny Dreadful ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Brewster
- 2024 Dead and Buried ( 4 episodes ) as Jack Sullivan
- 2014 The Walshes ( 3 episodes ) as Martin
- 2013 The Ice Cream Girls ( 3 episodes ) as Jim
- 2009 Val Falvey, TD ( 6 episodes ) as Pat Daly
- 2024 The Hardacres ( 4 episodes ) as Lord George Fitzherbert
- 1994 Scarlett ( 3 episodes ) as Tim O'Hara
- 1999 DDU: District Detective Unit ( 4 episodes ) as Det. Garda Paul Hyland
- 2009 Rásaí na Gaillimhe ( 14 episodes ) as Tommy Lacey
