Stephen Rea
Birthday: 1946-10-31
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Biography: Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
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Kisses
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror...
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Breakfast on Pluto
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in se...
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Interview with the Vampire
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
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Still Crazy
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...
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V for Vendetta
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” c...
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The Reaping
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her fa...
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Visitation
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the conv...
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
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The Good Shepherd
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter...
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Prêt-à-Porter
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an...
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Tara Road
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland....
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The End of the Affair
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, hus...
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Until Death
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious acciden...
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The Butcher Boy
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a vi...
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The Musketeer
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but h...
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The Crying Game
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier ...
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Sixty Six
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final....
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The I Inside
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the las...
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River Queen
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themse...
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The Company of Wolves
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, ...
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Citizen X
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...
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FearDotCom
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash y...
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Control
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new c...
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Hard Border
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of th...
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The Heavy
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister,...
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The Devil's Mercy
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes di...
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Life Is Sweet
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy c...
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Spy(ies)
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce ...
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Guinevere
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer....
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Princess Caraboo
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie...
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The Last of the High Kings
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis P...
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Ondine
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daug...
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Nothing Personal
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up...
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On the Edge
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who gr...
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Blackthorn
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, a...
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The Doctor and the Devils
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, ...
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Copenhagen
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Da...
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Underworld: Awakening
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world whe...
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Roadkill
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally run...
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Sisters
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins....
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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he w...
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Bloom
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway ...
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Angie
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant...
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Stella Days
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he ...
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Angel
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questio...
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Bad Behavior
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and ho...
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Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies,...
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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on ...
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Snow in August
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, ...
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Tasting Menu
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divor...
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Asylum
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that d...
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Four Days in July
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in ...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in...
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Crime of the Century
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held f...
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Double Tap
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking....
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Shadow of a Gunman
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Sh...
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Endgame
A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett'...
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The Curse of Styria
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curt...
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Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then ...
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Disclosure
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
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The Ghost of Richard Harris
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the...
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Out of the Dark
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to rea...
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All Men Are Mortal
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed...
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The Life Before This
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhoo...
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Evelyn
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unem...
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In Dreams
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict thi...
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This Is My Father
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been ...
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In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire....
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Scout
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle....
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Professional Foul
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to r...
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The Seagull
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an exper...
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Ruby Strangelove Young Witch
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted b...
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The Miracle Club
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey ...
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A Place Called Ardoyne
The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Cath...
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A Further Gesture
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in ...
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Fever Pitch
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling auto...
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusi...
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Proud
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II....
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Celebration
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultant...
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Sink Or Swim
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiratio...
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Lumière & Company
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invente...
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Loose Connections
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference...
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The Moonstone
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is pr...
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Black '47
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long y...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
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I Could Read the Sky
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He reca...
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The King's Wake
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and th...
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Greta
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the t...
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The Halo Effect
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a si...
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Unquiet Graves
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of...
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Shergar
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?...
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Cyprus Avenue
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a...
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The House
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and...
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Lost Lives
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northe...
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Heidi 4 Paws
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but ...
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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his fo...
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Fugitive
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too mu...
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Fluent Dysphasia
Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter. ...
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Secrets from Putumayo
Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inques...
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Early Struggles
Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop...
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The Out of Town Boys
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion....
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Sadie
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's...
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K Is for Killing
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series ...
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Cry of the Banshee
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present s...
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Nightride
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to...
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The Body Is Water
Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanish...
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Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
Over an extraordinary acting career spanning a decade, Stephen Rea has shown himself to be a versati...
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