Hugh Lehane

Actor Hugh Lehane was born in Limerick and grew up in Dublin Ireland. He is also a musician, an editor and a filmmaker. As a boy Hugh was enchanted by Stephen Speilberg's classic film 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind'. The experience was profound and in Hugh's own words... "With Close Encounters I truly came to know the wonder, the magic of cinema, the scope of what it could do and it changed me. Later, as I grew to know myself as an artist this film became a reminder of my purpose as an actor. To create art that touches the soul, that fundamentally, emotionally, spiritually moves people, and in doing so, giving back the same experience, the magical wonder that Speilberg helped me feel with Close Encounters."