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Rea: Irish film and stage actor Common clues: Stephen of “The
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I
believe some people in this business suffer from fame because
they behave in a famous fashion ~ Stephen Rea
Stephen
Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea
has appeared in high profile films 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.
Rea
trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In the late 1970s,
he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with Gabriel Byrne and
Colm Meaney. During the broadcasting ban on Sinn Féin
imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government, in order to cut the
'oxygen of publicity', it was interpreted that Sinn Féin
members could not be heard making statements expressing the views
of Sinn Féin, so Rea was one of many actors contacted to
provide an actor's voice to get around that problem. After
appearing on the stage and in television and film for many years
in Ireland and Britain, Rea came to international attention when
he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the
film The Crying Game. He is a frequent collaborator with Irish
film maker Neil Jordan. Rea has long been associated with some of
the most important writers in Ireland. His association with
playwright Stewart Parker, for example, began when they were
students together at the Queen's University of Belfast.
Rea
helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Tom
Paulin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane. In
recognition for his contribution to theatre and performing arts,
Rea was given honorary degrees from both the Queen's University
of Belfast and the University of Ulster in 2004.
Stephen
Rea's friendship with American playwright and actor Sam Shepard
dates back to the early 1970s, and he starred in Shepard's
directorial debut of his play "Geography of a Horse Dreamer"
at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974. In 2007, Rea began a
successful and acclaimed relationship with both the Abbey Theatre
and Sam Shepard, appearing in Kicking a Dead Horse (2007) and
Ages of the Moon (2009), both penned by Shepard and also both
transferred to New York. Rea returned to the Abbey in 2009 to
appear in the world premiere of Sebastian Barry's Tales of
Ballycumber.
In
2011, Rea featured in the BBC crime drama The Shadow Line,
playing antagonist Gatehouse.
In
April 2012, Rea read James Joyce's "The Dead" on RTÉ
Radio 1.
Narrator
in BBC Radio 4 production of Ulysses for Bloomsday 16 June 2012
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