Pádraic Delaney is an Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 actor

Actor

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 best known for playing Teddy O'Donovan in the Ken Loach

Ken Loach

Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...

 film The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...

, for which he earned an IFTA nomination as well as being named Irish Shooting Star for the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. He is also well known for his role as English aristocrat Lord George Boleyn, brother-in-law of King Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

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 in Showtime's The Tudors

The Tudors

The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...

, whom the writers chose to portray as bisexual.

Early life

Delaney was born to parents Sheelagh and Michael Delaney. He has three older brothers Philip, Conor and Emmett, and two younger sisters Tracey and Gemma. He attended Colaiste Abbain Secondary School in Adamstown, Co. Wexford. He originally studied engineering before dropping out after four months. He later went on to study at the Beckett Centre in Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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 and graduated with a BA in Drama & Theatre Studies in 2001.

Personal life

Delaney currently lives in Dublin, Ireland. He is affectionately known to those close to him as Pá (pron. Paw).

Career

He first started acting in theatre, performing in Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

, The Madman and the Nun, A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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 and The Hollow in the Sand. Delaney soon added screen acting to his resume, starring in the 2003 short film An Cuainín, and in 2005 appearing in the Irish television series Pure Mule and The Clinic. He went on to play the lead in the RTÉ

RTE

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 series Legend.

It was in 2006 that he first appeared before international audiences as Irish revolutionary

Revolutionary

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 Teddy O'Donovan in Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...

, opposite Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal....

. The film won the Palme D'Or

Palme d'Or

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 at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival

2006 Cannes Film Festival

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, and Delaney was nominated for two 2007 Irish Film and Television Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Breakthrough Talent. Delaney was also honored as the Irish Shooting Star for 2007 by the Berlin International Film Festival.

Delaney was a cast member of the Showtime series The Tudors

The Tudors

The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...

 in which he plays Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

's brother George alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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.

In late 2007, Delaney appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre

Tricycle Theatre

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 in the role of Father Flynn in John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley

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's play Doubt: A Parable.

He was reunited with Cillian Murphy and Liam Cunningham in 2009, his co-stars in The Wind That Shakes The Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce , a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his loved one and plunge into the...

, for the comedy Perriers Bounty.

In 2010 he filmed the role of Sundance in the western Blackthorn

Blackthorn

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 alongside Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

Filmography

• An Cuainín (2003) ... as Duncan
• Pure Mule (2005, TV series) ... as Maurice (two episodes)
• The Clinic (2005, TV series) .... as Andrew McLoughlin (one episode)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
   (2006) ... as Teddy O'Donovan
• Legend (2006, TV series) ... as Fred 'Fridge' Gogan
• A Lonely Sky (2006) ... as Stan Curtis
• The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (2007–2008, TV series) ... as George Boleyn
• Eden (2007) ... as Eoghan
• Single Handed (2008, TV series) ... as Michael Casey
• Perrier's Bounty (2009) ... as Shamie
• Raw (2011, TV series) ... as Ray

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