Martin McCann grew up with a brother and sister in the Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. In 2006 Lord Richard Attenborough cast McCann in his film after seeing him play Alex in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. Attenborough called Spielberg and recommended McCann. He was invited to LA to audition for 'The Pacific' HBO miniseries, Attenborough sent along scenes from his film for Spielberg to view. McCann was cast in The Pacific as R.V. Burgin. In early 2010 he filmed in Belfast for the new music-comedy Killing Bono, a film about the life of one of Bono's classmates who tries to make it in the music business, only to have his failures and frustrations magnified by the continued rise U2. McCann plays the role of Bono. He has performed on stage in Ireland and on tour. In 2011 Martin won the Irish Film and Television Award for best male performance in a feature film, the nominees in the category were fellow northern Irish man Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy and Colm Meaney. Martin has become Patron of the charity YouthAction Northern Ireland.

Filmography

• Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms — Tommy Moffat
• 2026Skintown — Kyle Brown
• Hostage — John Shagan
• Trespasses — Eamonn Lavery
• Blue Lights — Stevie Neil
• 2023Last Sentinel — Baines
• 2022Here Before — Chris
• 2021Just Johnny — Dermot
• 2021Wildfire — Sean
• 2021Wolf — Dr. Sullivan
• 2019Father Father
• 2019Stalker — Simon
• 2019The Informer — Riley
• 2018Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — Paddy
• 2018Calibre — Marcus
• Death and Nightingales — Frank Blessing
• 2018Justice Dot Net — Jake De Long
• On the Edge — Keon
• 2017Cry Rosa — Mr. McNally
• 2017Lost in London — Paddy
• 2017Maze — Oscar
• 2017Red Light — Ben
• 2016Bobby Sands: 66 Days — Bobby Sands (voice)
• 2016Fractured City
• 2016My Name Is Emily — Swimming Teacher
• 2016Property of the State — Finbar
• The Frankenstein Chronicles — Renquist
• 2015The Rezort — Lewis Evans
• 2015The Survivalist — The Survivalist
• 2015X+Y — Michael Ellis
• 2014'71 — Paul Haggerty
• 2014Boogaloo and Graham — Vater
• 2014Magpie — The Trickster
• 2012Coward — Andrew
• 2012Jump — Pearse Kelly
• Ripper Street — Michael Donovan
• 2012Shadow Dancer — Brendan
• 2012The Back of Beyond — Gabriel
• Titanic: Blood and Steel — Conor McCann
• 2011Killing Bono — Bono
• Vera — Jack Madden
• 2011Whole Lotta Sole — Jimbo
• 2010Clash of the Titans — Phaedrus
• 2010Hollow — Marcus
• Republic of Doyle — Rory Bryne
• The Pacific — Cpl. R.V. Burgin, Sgt. R.V. Burgin
• 2009Scapegoat — Iain Hay Gordon
• Storyland — Mr McNally
• 2009Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne — Occi
• 2007Closing the Ring — Jimmy
• 2007My Boy Jack — Bowe
• 2003You Looking at Me? — Martin
• The Fight — Edward
• The Way of the Wind — Marcellus

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2019Lost Lives — Self (voice)