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Stephen Rea is a British stage, film, and television actor born in Belfast on October 31, 1946. He began his professional work period in 1962 and was educated at Queen's University Belfast. A citizen of the United Kingdom, Rea speaks Irish. He has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is married to Dolours Price.
Rea has received the Theatre World Award and an honorary doctorate. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. His written works include *Diary of a madman*, *Ozzy and Me*, *Reading in the Dark*, *The Devil's Mercy*, and *Correspondences*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Diary of a madman
- Ozzy and Me
- Reading in the Dark
- The Devil's Mercy
- Correspondences
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
Known for
- The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones — Matsuo Bashō (English)2026
- Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now — Self2025
- Prime Target — Professor James Alderman2025
- The Miracle Club — Frank Dunne2023
- Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman — Self2022
- The Ghost of Richard Harris — Self2022
- Nightride — Joe (voice)2022
- The English — Sheriff Robert Marshall2022
- Sadie — Self - Lyric Theatre2021
- Disclosure — Fergus (archive footage)2020
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 51
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,869x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,124x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,434x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,554x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,143x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-10-31 ) October 31, 1946 (age 79) , Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK
- Education
- Queen's University Belfast Abbey Theatre School
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Spouse
- Dolours Price ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1983 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2003 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Spouse
- Dolours Price
- Occupation
- actor
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Languages spoken
- Irish
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Official website
- www.stephenrea.net
- Image
- Stephen Rea.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-10-31
- Commons category
- Stephen Rea
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- name in native language
- Stephen Rea
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- P10632
- Stephen Rea
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephen Rea (/ˈreɪ/ ray; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his career as a member of Dublin's Focus Theatre, and played many roles on the stage and on Irish television. He came to the attention of international film audiences in Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan's 1992 film The Crying Game, and subsequently starred in many more of Jordan's films, including Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and Greta (2018). He also played a starring role in the Hugo Blick 2011 TV series The Shadow Line.
As a stage actor, he is known for his performances at The Gate and Abbey theatres in Dublin, and the Royal Court Theatre in London. He is a co-founder of the Field Day Theatre Company with Brian Friel.
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