Owen Roe

Owen Roe

Owen Roe is one of Ireland’s foremost film, TV and theatre actors. Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s. Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in Hamlet. He also won a Special Tribute Award at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019. He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991. On TV, Roe has appeared on Scarlett, The Ambassador, Ballykissangel, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, Penny Dreadful, Vikings and Fair City., and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including Michael Collins (as Arthur Griffith), Intermission and Breakfast on Pluto. He has received three IFTA nominations. On radio, Roe was one-third of the Scrap Saturday political satire series, and is best remembered for his impression of P. J. Mara, loyal adviser to Charles Haughey. He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.

  • Title: Owen Roe
  • Popularity: 0.7287
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1959-05-30
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
  • Homepage: https://www.theagency.ie/owen-roe
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Owen Roe Movies

  • 2005
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    Breakfast on Pluto

    Breakfast on Pluto

    7.215 2005 HD

    In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.

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  • 2000
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    When the Sky Falls

    When the Sky Falls

    4.625 2000 HD

    Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.

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  • 2023
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    Irish Crime: Moon Over Galway

    Irish Crime: Moon Over Galway

    6.5 2023 HD

    Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake is called to an emergency in the middle of the night: A young woman is threatening to throw herself to her death from a high-rise building. Cathrin knows the disturbed woman – Moon Flynn was in therapy with Cathrin a few years ago for a borderline disorder, but stopped it prematurely.

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  • 2023
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    The Christmas Break

    The Christmas Break

    5.8 2023 HD

    A married couple travel from Chicago to spend Christmas with the wife's family in a small town in Ireland. This is a holiday which will test their patience—and their marriage.

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  • 1996
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    Michael Collins

    Michael Collins

    6.874 1996 HD

    Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

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  • 1995
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    Frankie Starlight

    Frankie Starlight

    5.036 1995 HD

    The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.

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  • 2008
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    Alarm

    Alarm

    4.143 2008 HD

    A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friends

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  • 2023
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    Wickedly Evil

    Wickedly Evil

    6.7 2023 HD

    A group of criminals lay low in the remote Irish countryside after pulling off an audacious robbery. As they plan their escape they quickly realise the robbery will be the last thing to go right for them.

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  • 2003
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    Intermission

    Intermission

    6.143 2003 HD

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

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  • 2024
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    King Frankie

    King Frankie

    7.5 2024 HD

    Following the death of his father, the past catches up with Dublin taxi driver, Frank Burke.

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  • 2011
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    Sensation

    Sensation

    4.875 2011 HD

    Man-boy farmer Donal discovers that his father has suddenly passed away. Now on his own, Donal attempts to lose his virginity by hiring a prostitute to help him get out of his rut. And so he meets Kim, an aging Kiwi escort. After engaging in a strictly sexual encounter, their relationship soon progresses into a lusty romance, then to a business enterprise between two partners. Through these exploits, Donal and Kim provide each other with a sense of love and belonging that neither experienced beforehand.

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  • 2015
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    4 2015 HD

    Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience.

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  • 1991
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    The Treaty

    The Treaty

    6 1991 HD

    How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.

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  • 2007
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    The Shadow in the North

    The Shadow in the North

    6.5 2007 HD

    Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

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  • 1996
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    Loving

    Loving

    1 1996 HD

    An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.

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  • 2010
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    When Harvey Met Bob

    When Harvey Met Bob

    6.6 2010 HD

    Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.

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  • 2009
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    Wide Open Spaces

    Wide Open Spaces

    3.5 2009 HD

    Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard, to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.

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  • 2012
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    Saving the Titanic

    Saving the Titanic

    7.9 2012 HD

    In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death.

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  • 1998
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    Soft Sand, Blue Sea

    Soft Sand, Blue Sea

    6 1998 HD

    13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.

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  • 2019
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    Abe's Story

    Abe's Story

    6 2019 HD

    In the late Victorian era, Abe, a burdened Irish aspiring writer, assistant to Henry, a world-famous stage actor, finds the inspiration to create his sinister novel about a bloody character through the adventures he has while traveling the world with his boss' theatrical troupe.

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  • 2025
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    The Roots

    The Roots

    1 2025 HD

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  • 1998
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    Ulys

    Ulys

    1 1998 HD

    An animated short film inspired by James Joyce's 'Ulysses.'

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  • 2012
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    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    7.2 2012 HD

    Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

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  • 2013
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    Vikings

    Vikings

    8.094 2013 HD

    The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

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  • 1996
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    Ballykissangel

    Ballykissangel

    6.9 1996 HD

    A young British priest adjusts to life in a rural Irish community where life revolves around the church and the local pub. Everyone knows everyone else's business, and everyone usually has an opinion on it. While characters come and go, the small-town qualities remain.

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  • 2014
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    Penny Dreadful

    Penny Dreadful

    7.828 2014 HD

    Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

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  • 2024
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    Dead and Buried

    Dead and Buried

    4.889 2024 HD

    Outside the supermarket with her young son, Cathy encounters Michael - the man convicted of the brutal murder of her brother, 20 years earlier. Ignoring the advice of her best friend, Cathy takes to social media, uncovering the successful career and family life Michael has forged for himself since early release from prison, while she grieved for her brother.

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  • 2014
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    The Walshes

    The Walshes

    8.3 2014 HD

    The show follows the Walshes, a tight-knit family living in the fictional West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown.

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  • 2013
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    The Ice Cream Girls

    The Ice Cream Girls

    6.6 2013 HD

    In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged with the murder. Fast-forward to modern day. Happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother Rachel. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind… the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?

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  • 2009
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    Val Falvey, TD

    Val Falvey, TD

    1 2009 HD

    Val Falvey, TD is an Irish comedy television programme starring Ardal O'Hanlon and Owen Roe. The show began airing on RTÉ Two in November 2009. The show is about Val Falvey, a TD in the fictional town of Kilmehill.

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  • 2024
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    The Hardacres

    The Hardacres

    7.7 2024 HD

    The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.

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  • 1994
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    Scarlett

    Scarlett

    6.458 1994 HD

    Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' (1936). Filmed across the United States and abroad, the series stars Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton. The miniseries was broadcast in four parts on CBS from November 13-17, 1994. Following the death of her sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes, Scarlett O'Hara sets out to reclaim her doomed romance with Rhett Butler, as it takes her home to Tara to Charleston to Savannah to Ireland, where she learns of her family's roots.

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