John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

Filmography

• 2025Sew Torn — Hudson Armitage
• 2024The Watchers — Kilmartin
• Blue Lights — James McIntyre
• 2023Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
• 2021Boys from County Hell — George Bogue
• 2021The Banishing — Malachi
• 2020Caravan — Sam
• The Head — Arthur Wilde
• 2018Kissing Candice — Donal
• 2018Paul, Apostle of Christ — Aquila
• 2017Detour — Frank Malone
• 2017Number One — Gary
• 2017Pilgrimage — The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
• 2017Upstream — Sean
• 2016Alleycats — Redman
• One of Us — Bill Douglas
• The Trials of Jimmy Rose — DI Steve McIntyre
• 2014Scintilla — Powell
• The Assets — Vitaly Yurchenko
• Crossing Lines — Frankie
• 2013Möbius — Joshua
• Shetland — Frank Blake
• The Fall — Jim Burns
• Labyrinth — Simeon de Montfort
• 2012Private Peaceful — Sergeant Hanley
• 2011Ghosted — Jack
• 2011Night of the Hunt — Narrator (voice)
• Vera — Edmund Fulwell
• 201013Hrs — McRae
• 2010Black Death — Wolfstan
• 2010Mo — Gerry Adams
• 2009Holy Water — Tom Gaffney
• 2009The Tournament — Gene Walker
• 2008In Tranzit — Yakov
• Merlin — Balinor
• The Passion — Sagan
• 2007The Yellow House — Paul Gaugin
• Bleak House — Nemo / Captain James Hawdon
• 2005Isolation — Dan
• 2005Lassie — Sam Carraclough
• 2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Captain Alvarado
• 2003Alien Hunter — Dr. Michael Straub
• 2003Conspiracy of Silence — Father Francis
• 2002Evelyn — Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
• 2002Puckoon — O'Brien
• Spooks — Davie King
• The Jury — Alan Lane
• 2001The Seventh Stream — Tomas Dunhill
• 2000Best — George Best, Writer, Executive Producer
• Boston Public — Jerry
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song — Sean O'Casey
• 2000blur | The Best Of — Cinematography
• 1998Night Train — Director
• 1998Sliding Doors — Gerry
• 1998The Quarry — The Man
• 1997This Is the Sea — Padhar McAliskey
• 1996Moll Flanders — Fielding
• 1996Nothing Personal — Liam
• Silent Witness — Tom Flannery
• 1996Some Mother's Son — Bobby Sands
• 1995Angel Baby — Harry
• 1994Princess Caraboo — Amon McCarthy
• 1994The Secret of Roan Inish — Tadhg
• 1994Words Upon the Window Pane — John Corbet
• He-Play She-Play — Jim
• 1993In the Name of the Father — Paul Hill
• Peak Practice — Father Mel Davey
• 1993The Secret Garden — Lord Archibald Craven
• 1992Monkey Boy — Peter Carson
• 1992The Railway Station Man — Damian Sweeney
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Sean O'Casey
• All Good Things — Vincent Gibney
• Chimera — Peter Carson
• 1991Edward II — Spencer
• 1991Out of the Blue — Rudy
• 19901871 — O'Brien
• 1990Hardware — Shades
• 1990Who Bombed Birmingham? — IRA man in cottage
• Making Out
• 1988James Joyce's 'Ulysses' — Stephen Dedalus
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Stephen Dedalus
• The Play on One — Rudy
• 1986Waiting Tables
• Screen Two — Spencer, Damian Sweeney
• 1984Cal — Cal
• Natural World — Narrator
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Tomas Dunhill

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Movie Connections — Self