Martin McCann (b 1983) The fresh-faced Belfast man, who was flung into the big time by Richard Attenborough in Closing the Ring, graduated to strong roles in Shadow Dancer and Maze. He played the young Christy Brown in My Left Foot and the titular killer in The Young Poisoner's Handbook. Hugh O'Conor (b 1975) The Dublin actor was nine when he landed his first big role, opposite Liam Neeson in the 1985 movie Lamb. Star turn: The career-making A Date for Mad Mary.Ĥ9.
She has since confirmed her potential in The Hole in the Ground. Seána Kerslake (b 1990) Kerslake's turn in A Date for Mad Mary announced an actor who could interweave emotional fragility with sharp comic timing. Sadly, the great Greer Garson – once erroneously credited as having been born in Castlewellan, Co Down – doesn’t quite meet the regulations (though her grandfather would be eligible for the national football squad).ĥ0.
Good luck keeping them out of the top five in either. So we must conclude they can fairly compete both in this race and in any assessment of English film actors. We know that Daniel Day-Lewis, son of Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born and raised in leafy bits of London. Most biographers make uncommitted humming noises when asked if Peter O’Toole was born in Leeds or, as he often suggested, in “Connemara”. Can one great performance get you to the top? Can someone in their 20s really complete fairly against an actor who worked steadily for 60 years? Who gets to be Irish? That last question is particularly worrisome here, as two of the top seeds spent their early lives across the Irish Sea. Drawing up a list of the best Irish film actors, the criteria are unavoidably slippery.
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