Award Winning Actor

Brendan Conroy

Brendan Conroy is one of Ireland’s most esteemed Film, TV & Theatre actors. He has worked with acclaimed directors John Boorman, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and Lenny Abrahamson. A regular on The Abbey Theatre stage, Brendan has toured around the country with acclaimed theatre companies Red Kettle and Druid. Brendan won an IFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Tom Collins film ‘Kings’.

The Aran Island

The Aran Islands a hypnotic performance… Conroy beautifully captures the islanders as he takes us on an intimate journey. For those 100 minutes, you feel transported back in time. – Huffington Post

Productions

Film

THE GREEN KNIGHT
BUTCHER BOY
KINGS

TV Shows

VIKINGS IV
KLONDIKE
PROSPERITY

Stage

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
KINGS OF THE KILBURN HIGH ROAD
SHELTER

Awards

IFTA Winner 2008
Brendan won Best Supporting Actor for his role in KINGS

Stage & Screen Actor

News

Brendan is due to appear in:

Bodkin on Netflix (2023)

That They May Face The Rising Sun (2023)

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A hypnotic performance… Conroy beautifully captures the islanders as he takes us on an intimate journey. For those 100 minutes, you feel transported back in time.
Huffington Post
A pleasure… Conroy slides in and out of the voices and physical characterizations of the storytellers and their subjects with understated style and panache.
Talkin’ Broadway
At times in this one man show the narrator is indistinguishable from the locals. It’s a remarkable performance.
Michael Moffat, The Irish Mail on Sunday

theatre

The Aran Islands is a compelling adaptation by Joe O’Byrne of John Millington Synge’s classic work. In 1898, upon the advice of W.B. Yeats, Synge went to live among the islanders to “express a life that has never found expression.’’ In this grey, sea-battered landscape, full of mist and wild rain,  hearth is home and storytellers regale with tales by the fire;  here Synge found inspiration for many later works including The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea.  Brendan Conroy, one of Ireland’s finest actors, captures the spirit of Synge and of this bleakly primitive, mystical land on the West Coast of Europe. In the great history of Irish storytelling, The Aran Islands is a haunting and transporting experience built around an incredible performance.

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