Colm Meaney
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| Born | 30 May 1953 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1978 - Present |
| Spouse(s) | Bairbre Dowling (1977-1994) Ines Glorian (15 March, 2007-present) |
Colm J. Meaney (Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh; first name pronounced /ˈkɒləm/[1] born 30 May, 1953) is a Golden Globe-nominated Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
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[edit] Early life
Meaney was born in Dublin. He started studying acting when he was fourteen years of age, and entered the Abbey Theatre School of Acting after secondary school. He became a member of the Irish National Theatre and spent the next eight years in England, touring with several theatre companies.
[edit] Career
Meaney's first television appearance was in Z-Cars on BBC1 in 1978. He guest-starred on shows such as Remington Steele and Moonlighting before embarking on a successful film career; he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Snapper.
Meaney first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 in its pilot episode, Encounter At Farpoint. His character was eventually given the name of Miles O'Brien. In 1993, Meaney left The Next Generation for its spin-off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and remained on Deep Space Nine until its final episode in 1999. With 225 total appearances on Star Trek (173 on Deep Space Nine and 52 on The Next Generation), he has made more appearances on the franchise than any other actor except Michael Dorn (280). Meaney appeared in two Star Trek pilot episodes (The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine), a distinction shared with Patrick Stewart and Armin Shimerman. Meaney is also one of six actors to appear in the finales of two different Star Trek series.
He has also played a minor recurring role as Cowen, leader of the Genii on the Sci-Fi Channel series Stargate Atlantis, guest-starred on Law & Order", Law & Order: Criminal Intent and appeared as Bob O'Donnell on the ABC show Men In Trees.
He was the only actor to appear in all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy wherein he played the father of the Rabbitte family; however due to rights issues the family name changed from film to film.
His stage appearances include the Old Vic production of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Colm starred in British comedy film Three and Out released in the UK on 25 April, 2008. On July of the same year An Post (Irish mail agency) issued a postage stamp showing Colm Meaney as Jow Mullen in the film Kings.[2]
In March 2009 Meaney guest-starred as an Irish bartender on the St. Patrick's Day episode of The Simpsons, "In the Name of the Grandfather". In the same month the British film The Damned United was released, chronicling the 44-day period in which Brian Clough was manager of Leeds United. Meaney played the former Leeds manager Don Revie.
[edit] Personal life
Meaney was married to Irish actress Bairbre Dowling, but they are now divorced. He remarried in March 2007 to Ines Glorian.
He is unrelated to the science fiction writer John Meaney, though the latter does have a brother who is also named Colm.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ "StarTrek.com Article: Las Vegas 2004: Sunday's Highlights". http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/6313.html. Retrieved on January 1 2006.
- ^ Warren, Brian (Spring 2009). "That Was the Year That Was–2008 (part 1)". The Revealer (Seminole, FL: Éire Philatelic Association) 58 (No. 4): 63. ISSN 0484-6125.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Colm Meaney |
- Colm Meaney at the Internet Movie Database
- Colm Meaney at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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