Risteárd Cooper
| Risteárd Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, writer. |
Risteárd Cooper is an Irish actor, comedian, singer and writer and is one third of comedy trio Aprés Match.
Cooper graduated from the acting program at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. He lived in New York for several years where he worked at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Irish Rep and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company (founded by, amongst others, John Malkovich) playing Mickey in the American premiere of Jez Butterworth's Olivier award-winning play, 'Mojo.
He has played lead roles in the major theatres in Ireland including "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" at the Abbey, "Auntie and Me" at the Gaiety, "I Keano" at the Olympia, and in numerous productions at the Gate Theatre such as "Arcadia", An Ideal Husband, See You Next Tuesday, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Betrayal(Pinter Festival) and The Deep Blue Sea.
In 2009 he played the role of Dmitri in the critically acclaimed production of Brian Friel's play "The Yalta Game" directed by Patrick Mason for the Gate Theatre at the 2009 Sydney and Edinburgh International Festivals.
He played the leading role of Michael in the RTÉ/Element Pictures film Bittersweet for which he received a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Monte Carlo Television and Film Awards.
Last year he starred as Setanta de Paor in 'An Crisis', an Irish language comedy series for TG4 for which he was also nominated at the 2010 Monte Carlo Awards, this time in the Best Comedy Actor category.
In 2011 he played Henry Higgins in the Abbey Theatre's first ever production of Shaw's Pygmalion and is currently playing Joxer Daly in O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock at the Abbey Theatre, before transferring to the National Theatre of Great Britain in November.
In 2010, he appeared in a selection of videos for Betdaq which were uploaded to YouTube.
Cooper also writes for the newspaper, The Irish Times.
[edit] Appearances
The following is a list of appearances by Risteard Cooper.[1]
- Après Match (1996 - present)
- The Closer You Get (2000)
- The Big Bow Wow (2004)
- This is Ireland (2004)
- Chasing the Lions (2005)
- I, Keano (2005)
- Batman Begins (2006)
- The State of Us (2007)
- Chasing The Blues (2007)
- "Bittersweet" (2008)
- "Chase the Lions" (2009)
- "An Crisis" (TG4 - 2010)
