Pádraic Delaney

Pádraic Delaney ( born November 6, 1977 in Adamstown, County Wexford ) is an Irish film and theater actor.

Delaney was born in a small village in the southeast of Ireland, 1977; He has three older brothers and two younger sisters. After attending school in his hometown, he began studies in civil engineering, he dropped out after four months. Instead, he graduated from the Beckett Centre at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 2001 with a BA in Drama & Theatre Studies from.

Delaney began his career in the theater with roles among others in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2003, he was several times to see for the first time in a short film from 2005 in TV movie roles, with the lead role in an RTÉ series ( 2006). His breakthrough as a film actor he had in 2006 when Teddy O'Donovan in The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach. The film won the 2006 Golden Palm at the International Film Festival in Cannes, and Delaney was nominated for two Irish Film and Television Awards 2007. This was followed by two more roles in feature films and 2007/2008 a role in the television series The Tudors. In addition, Delaney is also still to be seen in the theater, so the end of 2007 at the Tricycle Theatre in London. As a Catholic priest in a piece by John Patrick Shanley

Awards

• 2007: Shooting Star by European Film Promotion at the Berlinale

Filmography (selection)

• 2003: At Cuainín (Short Film )
• 2005: Pure Mule (TV series)
• 2005: The Clinic (TV series)
• 2006: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• 2006: Legend ( TV series)
• 2006: A Lonely Sky
• 2007-2008: The Tudors ( The Tudors )
• 2008: Eden
• 2009: Single Handed (TV series)
• 2009: Bounty - Perrier 's Bounty
• 2011: Blackthorn