Name
John Lynch
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1961-12-26 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK
Biography
John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021).
Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
Known For
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A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where,...
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A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London...
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Luke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution un...
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In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fra...
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A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquak...
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The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution...
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Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale b...
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As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the pl...
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Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole....
- 1998 Sliding Doors as Gerry
- 1995 Angel Baby as Harry
- 2003 Alien Hunter as Dr. Michael Straub
- 1990 Hardware as Shades
- 2009 The Tournament as Gene Walker
- 1993 In the Name of the Father as Paul Hill
- 2008 In Tranzit as Yakov
- 2005 Isolation as Dan
- 2010 Black Death as Wolfstan
- 1984 Cal as Cal
- 1994 The Secret of Roan Inish as Tadhg
- 2005 Lassie as Sam Carraclough
- 1991 Edward II as Spencer
- 2009 Holy Water as Tom Gaffney
- 1997 This Is the Sea as Padhar McAliskey
- 2023 Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
- 2010 13Hrs as McRae
- 1991 Out of the Blue as Rudy
- 2003 Conspiracy of Silence as Father Francis
- 2011 Ghosted as Jack
- 2000 Best as George Best
- 1998 The Quarry as The Man
- 2007 The Yellow House as Paul Gaugin
- 2012 Private Peaceful as Sergeant Hanley
- 2013 Möbius as Joshua
- 1990 1871 as O'Brien
- 1996 Moll Flanders as Fielding
- 2014 Scintilla as Powell
- 1992 Monkey Boy as Peter Carson
- 1996 Some Mother's Son as Bobby Sands
- 2025 Sew Torn as Hudson Armitage
- 2017 Pilgrimage as The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
- 2011 Night of the Hunt as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 Detour as Frank Malone
- 1990 Who Bombed Birmingham? as IRA man in cottage
- 1993 The Secret Garden as Lord Archibald Craven
- 2024 The Watchers as Kilmartin
- 2016 Alleycats as Redman
- 2017 Upstream as Sean
- 2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Captain Alvarado
- 1996 Nothing Personal as Liam
- 1988 James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Stephen Dedalus
- 2001 The Seventh Stream as Tomas Dunhill
- 1992 The Railway Station Man as Damian Sweeney
- 2010 Mo as Gerry Adams
- 2018 Kissing Candice as Donal
- 2017 Number One as Gary
- 2002 Puckoon as O'Brien
- 2018 Paul, Apostle of Christ as Aquila
- 2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Sean O'Casey
- 1986 Waiting Tables
- 1994 Words Upon the Window Pane as John Corbet
- 2021 Boys from County Hell as George Bogue
- 1994 Princess Caraboo as Amon McCarthy
- 2021 The Banishing as Malachi
- 2020 Caravan as Sam
- 2002 Evelyn as Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
- 2005 Bleak House ( 2 episodes ) as Nemo / Captain James Hawdon
- 1996 Silent Witness ( 2 episodes ) as Tom Flannery
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Tomas Dunhill
- 2007 Movie Connections ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 The Passion ( 6 episodes ) as Sagan
- 1991 Chimera ( 4 episodes ) as Peter Carson
- 1983 Natural World ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
- 2023 Blue Lights ( 6 episodes ) as James McIntyre
- 2012 Labyrinth ( 2 episodes ) as Simeon de Montfort
- 2013 The Fall ( 17 episodes ) as Jim Burns
- 1993 Peak Practice ( 1 episode ) as Father Mel Davey
- 2011 Vera ( 1 episode ) as Edmund Fulwell
- 2013 Crossing Lines ( 1 episode ) as Frankie
- 2002 The Jury ( 5 episodes ) as Alan Lane
- 2008 Merlin ( 2 episodes ) as Balinor
- 2016 One of Us ( 4 episodes ) as Bill Douglas
- 1989 Making Out ( 8 episodes )
- 2013 Shetland ( 2 episodes ) as Frank Blake
- 1991 All Good Things ( 6 episodes ) as Vincent Gibney
- 2015 The Trials of Jimmy Rose ( 3 episodes ) as DI Steve McIntyre
- 2014 The Assets ( 8 episodes ) as Vitaly Yurchenko
- 2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as Davie King
- 2020 The Head ( 18 episodes ) as Arthur Wilde
- 1988 The Modern World: Ten Great Writers ( 1 episode ) as Stephen Dedalus
- 2000 Boston Public ( 1 episode ) as Jerry
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Spencer
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Damian Sweeney
- 1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Rudy
- 1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1 episode ) as Sean O'Casey
- 1993 He-Play She-Play ( 1 episode ) as Jim
