Owen Roe

Owen Roe is an Irish actor of stage, film and television who is also a playwright and a theatrical director. Born in Dublin, he trained in the late 1970s at the Brendan Smith Academy and the Oscar School of Acting. On radio he was one of the Scrap Saturday satirists, and his P. J. Mara impression remains the one he is best remembered for. His stage career has spanned decades, and his Claudius in Hamlet earned him an Irish Theatre Award; he also received a Special Tribute Award at the 2019 Irish Times Theatre Awards. He wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, which the Andrews Lane Theatre staged in 1991. On television he has appeared in Fair City, Vikings, Penny Dreadful and Ballykissangel, and he played Oliver Cromwell in the documentary Cromwell: God's Executioner. His films include Intermission (2003), Breakfast on Pluto (2005) and Michael Collins, in which he appeared as Arthur Griffith, and he has three IFTA nominations.