Martin McCann

Martin McCann is a Northern Irish actor, born in Belfast, who got his start in a cross-community youth drama group and performed on stage in Oliver Twist, Bugsy Malone, and The Crucible. After becoming known locally for sketches on Dry Your Eyes, he made his feature debut as Jimmy Riley in Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring (2007) and My Boy Jack (2007). He played Sergeant R. V. Burgin in the miniseries The Pacific and portrayed Bono in Killing Bono (2011). He won the Irish Film and Television Award for best lead actor in 2011 for Swansong. He starred in the short Boogaloo and Graham (2014) and in The Survivalist (2015), which brought another IFTA nomination. His later films include Maze (2017), Lost in London (2017), and Calibre (2018), a British Academy Scotland nominee. The Irish Times ranked him among Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. His television work also includes Marcella, Blue Lights, and the Netflix miniseries Hostage.