BRIAN GLEESON. Donmar Warehouse: The Night Alive. Other theater productions include Romeo and Juliet at the Abbey Theatre, Stuck at Project Arts Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company’s production of The Silver Tassie directed by Garry Hynes. His first movie role was in John Boorman’s The Tiger’s Tail in 2006. He has since gone on to appear in various film and television productions including Trouble in Paradise (2007) Single Handed(2007), The Wake Wood (2008), the popular ITV series “Primeval” and RTÉ’s acclaimed series “Love/Hate,” starring Aidan Gillen and Robert Sheehan. Other film work includes The Eagle of the Ninth directed by Kevin MacDonald, and the short film Noreen, directed by his brother Domhnall and also starring Brendan Gleeson, which won the Best Short Film Award in the Galway Film Fleadh. Recently he appeared as the dwarf Gus in Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman. Summer 2012 saw Brian film Wiebke Von Carolsfeld’s Stay, starring Aidan Quinn, as well as Ronan and Rob Burke’s Standby, co-starring Jessica Paré, in which he played the lead role of Alan. 2013 has seen Brian cast in the television adaptation of the Benjamin Black “Quirke” series, in which he plays the role of Sinclair, and How To be Happy a feature directed by Mark Gaster, Michael Rob Costine and Brian O’Neill, in which he plays the role of Cormac. Brian will also appear in the upcoming feature film Darkness on the Edge Town, directed by Patrick Ryan. He lives in Dublin.
