• 1953-05-30

Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Miles OBrien in Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law

• 1945-02-17

Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for th

• 1972-08-06

Jason OMara (born August 6, 1972) is an Irish actor. He has starred in the American television network dramas In Justice, Life on Mars, Terra Nova and Vegas. He is also known for voicing DC Comics superhero Batman in the animated films Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin, and Batman Bad Blood as well as

• 1955-03-29

Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFAs, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at numbe

• 1910-07-19

Gerry Duggan (19 July 1910 - 27 March 1992) was an Irish-Australian character actor. Although he never achieved stardom, he was a familiar face in small roles in film and television, both in Australia and Britain. His trademarks were his Irish brogue, pronounced lisp and prominent jaw.

• 1964-09-25

Maria Doyle Kennedy is an Irish film and television actress, singer and songwriter, best known for her roles as Queen Katherine of Aragon in the television series The Tudors, the title characters wife Frances in The General, and as Siobhan Mrs. S Sadler in the television series Orphan Black.

• 1960-05-10

Paul David Hewson, better known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best recognized as the frontman of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Compreh

• 1931-02-26

Shay Duffin (26 February 1931 – 23 April 2010) was an Irish character actor of the stage and screen. He was in the 1993 film Leprechaun with Jennifer Aniston. He also had a role in the 1997 film Titanic.

• 1969-06-28

Angeline Ball (born 28 June 1969) is an Irish actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Imelda Quirke in Alan Parkers The Commitments (1991) and as Tina in John Boormans The General (1998).Description above from the Wikipedia article Angeline Ball, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr

• 1945-09-12

Aitken was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Her grandfather was the UK Representative to Ireland (1939–49). She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaver