Stuart Graham (actor)
Stuart Graham is an Irish film, television, and stage actor, born and brought up in Northern Ireland.Life
Born in Belfast and educated at the University of Ulster, where he took a degree in media studies, Graham trained for an acting career at a drama school in London. In 1990 he played a minor part in a revival of Berenice at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth, and in 1991 appeared at the Dublin Theatre Festival in a production of Michael Collins Big Fella! by the Praxis Theatre Laboratory of Greenwich, playing the part of Eoin O'Duffy.
Most of Graham's stage work has been in Dublin and Belfast, while in film and television he has worked in both Irish and British productions, specializing in playing Irishmen. However, his leading roles have included the part of the Englishman Howard Carter in Egypt.
In 2000, Graham directed the premiere of Gary Mitchell's new play, Marching On, at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In an interview in 2011, Graham commented
In April 2017, he appeared in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.Filmography
- Michael Collins – Thomas Cullen
- The Informant – Det. Astley
- One Man's Hero – Corporal Kenneally
- Misery Harbour – John Wakefield
- Song for a Raggy Boy – Brother Whelan
- Omagh – Victor Barker
- Hunger – Raymond Lohan
- The Whistleblower – McVeigh
- Parked – George O'Regan
- Christopher and His Kind – Passport officer
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Minister
- Grabbers – Skipper
- Shadow Dancer – Ian Gilmore
- A Patch of Fog - Tom Breslin
- Mary Shelly - Publisher
- The Foreigner - Inspector Donal Greig
Selected television work
- Egypt – Howard Carter
- Waterloo Road – Russell Millen
- Single-Handed – Johnny Mallon
- The Fall – DCI Matt Eastwood
- Our World War – Father Brookes
- Thirteen – Angus Moxam
- The Secret – Dave Stewart
- Vera - Alan Marston
On stage
- Berenice at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth
- Michael Collins Big Fella! at the St George's Theatre, Dublin
- The Silver Tassie at the Almeida Theatre, London
- Alternative Future at the Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
- In a Little World of Our Own at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
- As the Beast Sleeps at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
- Carthaginians at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
- Force of Change at the Royal Court Theatre, Kensington
- A Number at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin
- Pump Girl at the Queen's Drama Studio, Belfast
- The Painkiller at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
- The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre and Gielgud Theatre, London
