Owen Roe

Known for ActingBorn 1959-05-30 (age 67) Dublin, Ireland

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.Read more

Movies & web series

DDU: District Detective Unit

The Hardacres

Vikings

The Walshes

Penny Dreadful

Saving the Titanic

King Frankie

Titanic: Blood and Steel

Breakfast on Pluto

Ballykissangel

Wickedly Evil

Michael Collins

When Harvey Met Bob

Finnegan's Foursome

The Ice Cream Girls

The Treaty

The Shadow in the North

Scarlett

Der Irland-Krimi: Mond über Galway

Intermission

Abe's Story

Soft Sand, Blue Sea

The Christmas Break

Dead and Buried

Frankie Starlight

Sensation

When the Sky Falls

Alarm

Pursuit

Loving

Wide Open Spaces

The Roots

Val Falvey, TD

Rásaí na Gaillimhe

Ulys