Cathal Pendred

Cathal Pendred is an Irish actor who also competed in mixed martial arts, including a stint in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Born in Boston, he was raised in Dublin, where he played rugby and won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup. He turned professional in 2009, became Ireland's top-ranked welterweight in 2010, and took the Cage Warriors welterweight belt in March 2013 by defeating Gael Grimaud in London. In 2014 he appeared on the nineteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter as a middleweight on B.J. Penn's team, then joined the UFC, where he beat Mike King by submission and earned Fight of the Night. After further bouts, he retired from mixed martial arts in November 2015. He then began acting and landed a main role in Lore, the Amazon horror anthology based on a podcast, playing Michael Cleary, a figure from Irish folklore, when it premiered in October 2017.