Seán McGinley is an Irish film and TV actor. He's appeared in about 80 films and television series.

Filmography

• 2025National Theatre Live: The Brightening Air — Pierre
• 2024That They May Face the Rising Sun — Johnny Murphy
• 2023The Last Rifleman — Brendan O'Brien
• 2023Wait for Me — Ged
• 2021Christmas at Castle Hart — Liam
• 2020The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw — Seamus Dwyer
• 2019Stalker — Henry
• Butterfly — Peter Duffy
• Death and Nightingales — Bishop Donnelly
• The Alienist — Bishop Potter
• Paula — Terry
• 2016The Truth Commissioner — Francis Gilroy
• Clean Break — Ben
• Shetland — Drew McColl
• Republic of Doyle — Malachy Doyle
• 2009Wild Decembers — O'Dea
• 2007Closing the Ring — Campbell
• Lewis — Keiran Donnelly
• 2007Shrooms — Bernie
• Single-Handed — Dennis Costello
• 200648 Angels — Dilly
• 2006Black Dog — Grandfather
• 2006Sixty Six — Mr. O'Connor
• 2006The Tiger's Tail — Declan Murray
• 2006The Wind That Shakes the Barley — Father Denis
• 2005On a Clear Day — Eddie
• 2005The Mighty Celt — I'm A Cripple
• 2004Freeze Frame — Detective Louis Emeric
• 2004Man About Dog — J.P. McCallion
• 2003Conspiracy of Silence — Rector Cathal
• 2003Dead Bodies — Detective Inspector Wheeler
• 2003Watermelon — Joe Ryan
• 2002Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs? — Mimms
• 2002Gangs of New York — Forty Thieves Leader
• 2001Clare sa Spéir — Eóin
• On Home Ground — Fergal Collins
• Waking the Dead — Dr. Donald Roper
• 2000The Claim — Sweetley
• 2000The Closer You Get — Ian O'Donnell
• 2000What Where — Bam
• DDU: District Detective Unit — Det. Sgt. Carl McCadden
• 1999Lipservice — Mairtin O Cathain
• 1999Simon Magus — Maximillian Hase
• The Vice — Tommy Bowers
• Cold Feet — Roy
• 1998Resurrection Man — Sammy McClure
• The Ambassador
• 1998The Butcher Boy — Sergeant
• 1998The General — Gary
• 1997A Further Gesture — Tommy Breen
• 1997Bogwoman — Mr D
• Midsomer Murders — Sean O'Connell
• 1997Scorned 2 — Screenplay
• 1997The Disappearance of Finbar — Detective Roche
• 1997The Informant — Frankie Conroy
• 1996Initiation
• 1996Michael Collins — Smith
• Safe And Sound — Dougy Flynn
• 1996Trojan Eddie — Raymie
• 1995Braveheart — MacClannough
• 1995Circle of Friends — Mr Duggan
• 1995Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret — Jim Caine
• Dangerous Lady
• 1995Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town — Michael
• 1995The Hanging Gale — Ferry
• The Hanging Gale — Ferry
• 1994Family — Charlo Spencer
• Family — Charlo Spencer
• Rik Mayall Presents — Michael
• 1990Fools of Fortune — Doyle
• 1990The Field — Father Chris Doran
• 1990Who Bombed Birmingham? — A
• 1985The Playboy of the Western World — Shawn Keogh
• Minder — Alexie Nolan
• Gilgamesh — Utnapishtim
• The Weir — Jim

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2024Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's — Self
• 2019Lost Lives — Self (voice)
• 2014A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators — Self
• 2003Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self (archive footage)