Owen Roe

Acting

Born May 30, 1959, Dublin, Ireland

Owen Roe is one of Ireland’s foremost film, TV and theatre actors. Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s. Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in Hamlet. He also won a Special Tribute Award at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019. He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991. On TV, Roe has appeared on Scarlett, The Ambassador, Ballykissangel, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, Penny Dreadful, Vikings and Fair City., and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including Michael Collins (as Arthur Griffith), Intermission and Breakfast on Pluto. He has received three IFTA nominations. On radio, Roe was one-third of the Scrap Saturday political satire series, and is best remembered for his impression of P. J. Mara, loyal adviser to Charles Haughey. He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.

Filmography

• 2026Finnegan's Foursome
• 2025The Roots — Sebastian Quintana
• Dead and Buried — Jack Sullivan
• 2024King Frankie — Aidan
• The Hardacres — Lord George Fitzherbert
• 2023Der Irland-Krimi: Mond über Galway — Jonathan Carroll
• 2023The Christmas Break — Calum Reilly
• 2023Wickedly Evil — The Chief
• 2019Abe's Story — Various Roles (voice)
• 2015Pursuit — Mr. King
• Penny Dreadful — Colonel Brewster
• The Walshes — Martin
• The Ice Cream Girls — Jim
• Vikings — Count Odo
• 2012Saving the Titanic — White Star Lawyer
• Titanic: Blood and Steel — Sir Norman Hill
• 2011Sensation — Liam
• 2010When Harvey Met Bob — Tony Powell
• Rásaí na Gaillimhe — Tommy Lacey
• Val Falvey, TD — Pat Daly
• 2009Wide Open Spaces — Gerard Ring
• 2008Alarm — Joe / Mossie
• 2007The Shadow in the North — Bram Stoker
• 2005Breakfast on Pluto — Dean
• 2003Intermission — Mr. Henderson
• 2000When the Sky Falls
• DDU: District Detective Unit — Det. Garda Paul Hyland
• 1998Soft Sand, Blue Sea — Joe
• 1998Ulys — voice
• Ballykissangel — Paul Dooley
• 1996Loving — Michael Mathewson
• 1996Michael Collins — Arthur Griffith
• 1995Frankie Starlight — Senior Customs Officer
• Scarlett — Tim O'Hara
• 1991The Treaty — George Gavan Duffy