Sam Keeley
- Actor
- Executive
Sam Keeley is an Irish actor who began his acting career in the role of
"Killen" in the Irish film "The Other Side of Sleep" directed by
Rebecca Daly. He was chosen for this role after attending an open
casting in his home town of Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland in 2010.
Since then he won a role in the Bafta award winning series "Misfits"
appearing in Series 2, Episode 2, as Jamie, Nathan's brother. Shortly
after this Sam was cast as Desmond in Paulo Sorrentino's "This Must Be
The Place" starring "Sean Penn" and "Frances Mcdormand" which was shot
predominantly in Ireland. Both "The Other Side of Sleep" and "This Must
Be The Place" premièred at the 2011 "Cannes Film Festival". Since then
Sam has appeared in the TV3 Magma Productions series of "Jack Taylor"
films starring alongside Iain Glen in The Pikemen.He worked on a post
production project for 'Dream House' with Jim Sheridan, and Season 4 of
"Raw", an Irish original TV Series where he had a leading role. He
played the part of Conor Harris in the feature film "What Richard Did"
directed by Lenny Abrahamson which was released to great acclaim in
2012. Sam was cast in his first lead role of Michael in the Si Fi
Sequel "Monsters Dark Continent", which is due for release later this
year. From there Sam was cast as "Charles Ramsdell" in the "Ron Howard"
epic "In the heart of the sea" along side "Chris Hemsworth", "Cillian
Murphy", and "Brendan Gleeson". This movie is due for release on March
15th next year (2015). Summer 2014, sees Sam in London playing the role
of "David" opposite "Bradley Cooper","Uma Thurman" "Sienna Miller"
"Jamie Dornan" "Emma Thompson" "Omar Sy" and Daniel Bruhl" In the
"Weinstein Company" production "John Wells" directed "Adam Jones".
2015 see's Sam in London filming "Alley cats" Directed by "Ian Banhote" co-staring with "Eleanor Tomlinson" and " John Hannah" , This is due for release later on in the year. From there, on to South Africa to work on the true Irish peacekeeping story of "Jadotville" with "Jamie Dornan" "Greg Strong"and "Jason O' Mara".
2015 see's Sam in London filming "Alley cats" Directed by "Ian Banhote" co-staring with "Eleanor Tomlinson" and " John Hannah" , This is due for release later on in the year. From there, on to South Africa to work on the true Irish peacekeeping story of "Jadotville" with "Jamie Dornan" "Greg Strong"and "Jason O' Mara".
