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Paul Mescal is an Irish actor. He is known for his leading role in the miniseries Normal People, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Before starting acting, he was an under-21 Gaelic footballer for County Kildare and a member of Maynooth Football Club. He plays as a defender. His former coach Cian O'Neill described Paul Mescal as "very mature for someone so young. Physically, he was very strong. He was an exceptional scorer." Following a jaw injury, Paul was forced to give up Gaelic football.
In 2017, he graduated with a BA in Arts from Trinity College University in Dublin.
In 2019, he began his acting career with an appearance in a pilot episode of the television series Bump.
In 2020, Paul Mescal landed his first leading roles. He plays Connell Waldron in the series Normal People alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones and plays Sean McKeogh in the series The Deceived.
In 2021, Paul Mescal stars in his first feature film, The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal, in the role of an Irish beach attendant working in Greece.
In 2023, he was nominated in the Best Actor category at the Oscars for his leading role in the feature film Aftersun by Charlotte Wells. He landed the lead role in Gladiator 2 by Ridley Scott, filming of which is due to begin in June 2023.- Olwen Catherine Kelly was born in Ireland on 30 March 1987. She is primarily a model but is also an actress, most famous for playing Jane Doe in the film Autopsy of Jane Doe. Olwen is married with one daughter.
Kelly, the eldest of five siblings - a sister and brother, and then two brothers who grew up separately - grew up in Celbridge. Her mother, a teacher, was a singer in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe was just her second part as an actress since studying biology in Maynooth - Kelly had worked in retail and then as a model, mostly in London. Her agent put her up for the part, despite her not having many acting credits, and the director told her that after they met - she was the first person he saw for the part - he knew he would cast her.
Her modelling career has seen her work with big high-street names, Next and TK Maxx, as well as numerous publications. The part would require two things that would challenge most actresses - nudity throughout, and maintaining the stillness of a corpse.
After The Autopsy of Jane Doe, she decided to take acting lessons before any further auditions.
Before the The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Olwen had a part in Patrick Ryan's Darkness on the Edge of Town. Her first acting role, it came about after she responded to an ad on Gumtree. - Devon Murray was born in County Kildare, Ireland in October 1988. His parents Michael and Fidelma Murray sent him to the Billie Barry when he was six, and within two weeks he landed a Tesco television ad. Within six months he was in his first movie, acting alongside Aidan Quinn in This Is My Father (1998). He then joined the National Performing Arts School and made his breakthrough in Angela's Ashes (1999). He also acted with Jane Seymour in Yesterday's Children (2000).
He now plays Seamus Finnigan (one of Harry's Gryffindor House friends) in the much-hyped Harry Potter series. Devon is an only child and now lives in Celbridge, County Kildare (Ireland). He has horses, and enjoys riding them, as well as rollerblading, skateboarding and playing on his computer. - Tony Quinn was born on 27 June 1899 in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Boys in Brown (1949), Undermind (1965) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to Rosalind Emma Murray. He died on 1 June 1967 in London, England, UK.
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Damien Rice was born on 7 December 1973 in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. He is a composer and actor, known for Closer (2004), Stay (2005) and In Good Company (2004).- Eilish Holton was born on 24 August 1988 in Donadea, County Kildare, Ireland.
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Mick Foster was born in December 1947 in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Mortdecai (2015), Penguins of Madagascar (2014) and September Babies (2024).- The second in a family of ten, his father Henry farmed at Kilkea. His mother Henrietta was descended from the Fitzmaurices, a family which had been in Kerry since the Norman times in the 13th century. In 1880 when Ernest was six his father gave up farming and went to Trinity College Dublin, and qualified to be a doctor. The family lived at 35 Marlborough Road in Dublin and in 1884 they moved to Sydenham in South London where Henry practiced for 30 years.
After attending school at Dulwich College as a day boy Ernest, aged 16, joined the Merchant Navy. After 10 years he gave that up and joined a British Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to try and be the first to reach the South Pole. In the summer of 1901 the ship , The Discovery departed for the Antarctic. On 30th December 1902 Scott, Shackleton and Edward Wilson FZS ("Uncle Bill") reached within 400 miles of the South Pole, the furthest South yet achieved by anybody. Shackleton was invalided on the return journey and was sent home early. His experience on this expedition then spurred Shackleton on, to have a go at reaching the South Pole himself. In 1904 after his return he married Emily Dorman, they had three children Raymond, Cecily and Edward.
Next came the Nimrod expedition. In March 1907 Shackleton outlined his own trip, which he organized himself with the minimum of official support. The Expedition was to leave New Zealand in 1908. The ship chosen was a sealing ship which generally worked from Newfoundland. It was brought down and arrived in London in mid-June 1907. The Queen presented Shackleton with a Union Jack to carry on the sledge journey. They ship left for New Zealand on the 7th of August. The Commonwealth Government gave Shackleton £5000 and the New Zealand Government gave him £1000 and agreed to pay for half of the cost of towing the ship down to the Antarctic Circle to save coal for the journey that lay ahead. They entered the Ross Sea on January 16th. On the 28th of January the ship froze in the ice. The next day they lowered the motorcar onto the ice pack, the first automobile on the Antarctic Continent. The team set up the hut they had brought with them and the men crammed in. The weather began to close in and the sun to set. On the 29th of October 1908 Shackleton, Adams, Marshall and Frank Wild headed for the South Pole, a 1700 mile round trip. The other men had set up many depots for the journey using the motorcar for several of them. The team began to run low on rations shot the ponies for food. On the 9th of January 1909 they reached a new furthest south - just 97 miles from the South Pole. They had to turn around due to lack of food.
After the Norwegian Roald Amundsen (December 1911) and Scott (January 1912) had reached the South Pole, Shackleton thought up and attempted to carry out another great plan - to cross the 2000 mile Antarctic continent. This trip was a very successful failure. The team of 28 men and 68 dogs never set foot on the continent. Shackleton's ship the "Endurance" was trapped in the ice in the Weddell Sea for 11 months, from January 1915 until it was squashed and sank in November 1915, leaving 28 men on the ice with 3 small ship's boats. They then spent 5 ( admittedly summer) months on an iceberg floating away from the continent. With great good fortune they landed on Elephant Island on the 15th of April 1916. It is a small godforsaken island of rock and ice with a few penguins and seals for food. So there they were in April 1916, lost to the civilized world, and heading into an Antarctic winter. Losing no time Shackleton's next move was to be one of the greatest small boat journeys ever made. Shackleton and 5 others set off in the 22 foot boat the "James Caird" on an 800 mile journey across one of the roughest seas in the world to island of South Georgia to get help. Tim McCarthy first spotted South Georgia, 15 days after they had left Elephant Island. Their extraordinary journey was not yet over - to reach help, Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley then had to cross the mountains, glaciers and snowfields of South Georgia to get to the whaling station at Stromness. Three and a half months later, at the fourth attempt, Shackleton, in a Chilean tug the "Yelcho' rescued the remaining 22 crew on Elephant Island on the 30th August 1916. It was amazing that all the crew had survived. In December Shackleton left New Zealand on the Aurora to rescue the Ross Sea Party from Cape Royds - on the other side of the Antarctic , this party had successfully laid food depots along the Ross Ice Shelf towards the South Pole. Shackleton had intended to use these as he crossed the Continent from the Weddell Sea side.
The 1921 trip on the Quest was his final journey. He died of a heart attack in the early hours of the 5th January 1922 shortly after the start of the expedition, at Grytviken in South Georgia where he was buried. A few months later on their journey home the crew of the Quest erected a cross at King Edward Point, across the bay from the cemetery where their "Boss" lies buried. - Jack W. Johnston was born on 2 October 1876 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Land of Promise (1917), The Country Boy (1912) and Rob Roy (1913). He died on 29 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Katie Holton was born on 24 August 1988 in Donadea, County Kildare, Ireland. She died on 4 April 1992 in Donadea, County Kildare, Ireland.
- Brian Dowling was born on 13 June 1978 in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland.
- Michael O'Sullivan was born on 25 July 1955 in County Kildare, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Fallout (2006), Eireville (2002) and Some Mother's Son (1996).
- Molly Keane was born on 4 July 1904 in Ballyrankin, County Kildare, Ireland. She was a writer, known for Three Wise Brides (1941), Treasure Hunt (1952) and Good Behaviour (1983). She was married to Robert Keane. She died on 22 April 1996 in Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland.
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Liam O'Flynn was born on 15 April 1945 in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. He is known for The Field (1990), Driftwood (1997) and Kidnapped (1978). He was married to Jane Nightingale. He died on 14 March 2018 in Ireland.- Maura Laverty was born on 15 May 1907 in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland. Maura was a writer, known for Tolka Row (1964) and Tolka Row (1959). Maura was married to Seamus James Laverty. Maura died on 26 July 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.
- John O'Donoghue was born on 6 October 1931 in County Kildare, Ireland. He was a writer, known for Over Ireland (1998) and Tangents (1972). He died on 11 September 2014.
- Charles Ancliffe was born in 1880 in County Kildare, Ireland. Charles died on 20 December 1952 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.
- Andy Lyons was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland.
- Amelia Summerville was born on 15 October 1862 in County Kildare, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Great Deception (1926), The Witness for the Defense (1919) and How Could You, Caroline? (1918). She was married to Eugene Maria Stepan and Frederick Russell Runnels. She died on 21 January 1934 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Adam Cross was born in County Kildare, Ireland.
- Bessie Nolan was born on 5 November 1911 in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland. She was married to Jackie Nolan. She died on 1 March 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Aidan Higgins was born on 3 March 1927 in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. He was a writer, known for BBC2 Play of the Week (1977). He was married to Alannah Hopkin. He died on 27 December 2015 in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland.
- Claire Walsh was born in County Kildare, Ireland.