Paudge Behan
Biography
Paudge Behan is an Irish actor and writer who had a brief spell in journalism at a Dublin newspaper before he turned to acting. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and in 1991 he starred as Connolly at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in the first staging of Tom Murphy's The Patriot Game. After a run of small parts on film and television during the 1990s, among them London Kills Me (1991) and the television film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), he was chosen by the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to take the male lead in the 1999 television film A Secret Affair. He appeared in A Man of No Importance (1994) and later in Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), playing Brian Meehan in the last of these. He also had leading roles in the short films A Lonely Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).
61years old
Turns 62 on January 18in 69 days
- Born Dublin, Ireland
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Paudge Rodger Behan
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 27 years1994 to 2021
Every film, newest first
- 2021American NightIMDb rating 4.4
- 2003Conspiracy of SilenceIMDb rating 6.5
- 2003Veronica GuerinIMDb rating 6.8
- 1995UncoveredIMDb rating 5.7
- 1994A Man of No ImportanceIMDb rating 6.7
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Big break
Behan was handpicked by novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to play the male lead in the 1999 television dramatization of her book A Secret Affair, a role that brought him a large and enthusiastic female following.
A change of course
Before acting, Behan worked briefly as a journalist in Dublin, interviewing everyone from priests to prostitutes before his paper folded.
First role
On 13 October 1981, Behan worked as a costume assistant when Tom Murphy's adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel The Informer had its original production at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.
Early training
Behan applied to three drama schools before the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art accepted him. From 1990 or 1991, he shared a home with RADA friends David Harewood and Danny Cerqueira in West Hampstead for roughly three years.
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Worked with
Paudge Behan shares three films with Brenda Fricker, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Brenda Fricker's page
Jonathan Rhys Meyers's page
Michael Madsen's page
Michael Gambon's page
Cate Blanchett's page
Ciarán Hinds's page
All films by Joel Schumacher
Alessio Della ValleDirector, 1 film, 2021
All films by Alessio Della Valle
All films by Jim McBride
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