Irish actor (born 1992)
Barry Keoghan
Keoghan in 2020
Born (1992-10-18 ) 18 October 1992 (age 31) Occupation Actor Years active 2011–present Children 1 Awards Full list
Barry Keoghan ( KYOH -gən ;[1] born 18 October 1992) is an Irish actor. He has received various accolades , including a British Academy Film Award , and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards . In 2020, he was listed at number 27 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[2]
Keoghan began acting in 2011 and gained recognition in 2017 for his roles in Christopher Nolan 's Dunkirk and Yorgos Lanthimos 's The Killing of a Sacred Deer . He gained praise for his performances in the Irish crime film Calm with Horses (2019) and in the fantasy film The Green Knight (2021). He expanded to big-budget films with his role as Druig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021). In 2022 he appeared in Martin McDonagh 's The Banshees of Inisherin , for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and received nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . Keoghan then starred in the psychological drama Saltburn (2023), for which he gained nominations for a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor .
He is also known for his television roles, including the RTÉ drama Love/Hate (2013), the HBO mini-series Chernobyl (2019), as well as in the final season of the Netflix reboot Top Boy (2023). Keoghan is an ambassador for Dior [3] and Barretstown .
Early life
Keoghan was born on 18 October 1992, and grew up in Summerhill, Dublin , Ireland.[5] His mother struggled with drug addiction and died when he was 12.[6] With his brother Eric, he spent seven years in foster care , in thirteen foster homes, before being raised by their grandmother, aunt, and older sister Gemma.[7] [6]
As a child, Keoghan appeared in school plays in the O'Connell School on Dublin's North Richmond Street but was banned for "messing about".[8] [9] He attributes his film education to sneaking into films with friends at Cineworld , Parnell Street , from which he was eventually barred.[8]
After appearing in Between the Canals , Keoghan studied acting at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy ), a local Dublin drama school.[5] He remembers "not even having €2.20 to get the bus to The Factory" at the time.[8]
Career
Keoghan began his acting career in 2011 when he answered a casting notice in a Sheriff Street shop window for the crime film Between the Canals . He portrayed Aido in a small role in the film, which was released in 2011.[8] [5] At the age of 18, he appeared in the Irish soap opera Fair City .[9]
In 2013, Keoghan appeared as Wayne on Love/Hate .[10] [11] The role earned Keoghan recognition in Ireland, and he went on to feature in '71 in 2014 and Mammal and Trespass Against Us in 2016.[12] [13]
Keoghan in 2017
Keoghan appeared in two films in 2017. He featured as George Mills in Dunkirk and starred as Martin Lang in The Killing of a Sacred Deer alongside Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman .[14] [9] He won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Killing of a Sacred Deer .[15] The following year, he appeared in Black '47 as Hobson, an English soldier stationed in Ireland during the Great Famine .[9] He also starred in American Animals the same year. He portrayed Spencer Reinhart in the film, based on a real-life theft of rare books from a university library.[9]
In 2018, The Hollywood Reporter described Keoghan as "the next big thing" for his film work in the previous three years. In 2019 he was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award .[9] [16]
He appeared in the 2019 mini-series Chernobyl .[11] He starred in an episode of Living With Lucy in September 2019.[17] That same month, his work in Calm With Horses was shown in the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival .[18] In July 2018, Keoghan was cast as lead character Yorick Brown in the pilot of Y: The Last Man . He left the main series production in February 2020.[10] [19] [20] Keoghan played Druig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals in November 2021.[21] He also appeared in The Green Knight .[22]
Keoghan appeared in Matt Reeves 's film The Batman (2022), credited as "Unseen Arkham Prisoner". Reeves later confirmed that Keoghan was the Joker .[23] [24] On 24 March 2022, three weeks after the film's release, Warner Bros. released a deleted scene featuring Keoghan's Joker and Robert Pattinson 's Batman.[25] Keoghan received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and won BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin , written and directed by Martin McDonagh .[26]
In 2023, Keoghan appeared in Emerald Fennell 's psychological thriller Saltburn as Oliver Quick, the lead character, alongside Jacob Elordi , Rosamund Pike , Alison Oliver , Richard E. Grant , and Carey Mulligan . Keoghan received critical acclaim for his performance, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor .
In March 2022, Keoghan was announced as the new ambassador for the Barretstown children's charity. He helped open the charity's new Aladina Studio funded by the Spanish Aladina Foundation .
Personal life
Keoghan is an amateur boxer.[27] From 2017 to 2020 Keoghan was in a relationship with Killarney native Shona Guerin, whom he had met on Good Friday in a Killarney pub where she was working.[28] [29] The pair appeared on Livin' with Lucy together in 2019 in which Lucy Kennedy stayed with them in their Los Angeles home.[28]
In September 2021, Keoghan began dating Alyson Kierans, a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist, whose father is from County Cavan .[8] [29] A few months later, on Ireland's Mother's Day , 27 March 2022, he disclosed that the couple were expecting a child together.[30] The birth of their son was announced on 8 August 2022.[31] The family moved to Broughty Ferry , Dundee , Scotland in November 2022.[32] Barry revealed in a 2024 interview that he and Alyson had split in mid-2023.[33]
In 2020, Keoghan was diagnosed with ADHD .[34]
Filmography
Film
Television
Accolades
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