Colm Meaney Biography

Colm Meaney born on 30th May 1953 is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O’Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and starred as Thomas Durant on Hell on Wheels.

He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, and appeared in the film The Damned United, all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, and in Get Him to the Greek, as well as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.

Meaney was born in Glasnevin, Dublin. He began studying acting when he was 14 years old and entered the Abbey Theatre School of Acting after secondary school. He became a member of the Irish National Theatre and worked for the next eight years in England, touring with several theatre companies.

Meaney married Irish actress Bairbre Dowling in 1977, with whom he had a daughter, Brenda, in 1984. The couple divorced in 1994. He married French costume designer Ines Glorian in March 2007. They have a daughter together, Ada, born in 2005.

Colm Meaney Career

Meaney’s first television appearance was in Z-Cars on BBC 1, in 1978. He guest-starred on shows such as Remington Steele and Moonlighting before embarking on a successful film career; he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Snapper.

Meaney first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in its 1987 pilot episode, “Encounter at Farpoint”, as an unnamed helm officer. His character became a frequently recurring one, and was given the name of Miles O’Brien as he became more prominent in the crew as Transporter Chief. In 1993, Meaney left The Next Generation for a main role in its spin-off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and remained on that show until its final episode, in 1999. With 225 total appearances on Star Trek, he has made more appearances on the franchise than any other actor except Michael Dorn.

Colm Meaney

Meaney played Colum O’Hara in the 1994 miniseries Scarlett, the sequel to Gone With the Wind. He has played a minor recurring role as Cowen,[3] leader of the Genii on the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) series Stargate Atlantis, guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and appeared as Bob O’Donnell on the ABC show Men in Trees.

He was the only actor to appear in all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, wherein he played the father of the Rabbitte family. Due to rights issues, the family name was changed from film to film. His stage appearances include the Old Vic production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten. Meaney starred in British comedy film Three and Out released in the UK on 25 April 2008. In July of the same year An Post (the Irish Post Office) issued a postage stamp showing Meaney as Joe Mullen in the film Kings.

In 2009, Meaney co-starred with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in Law Abiding Citizen, wherein Meaney played Detective Dunnigan. In March 2009, Meaney guest-starred as an Irish bartender on the St. Patrick’s Day episode of The Simpsons, “In the Name of the Grandfather”. In the same month the film The Damned United was released, a mostly fictional retelling of the 44-day period in which Brian Clough was manager of Leeds United.

Meaney played the former Leeds manager Don Revie. He also co-starred in Soldiers of Fortune with Christian Slater and Ving Rhames. In 2013, Meaney co-starred with Steve Coogan in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. In 2014, he appeared as The Horse in the BBC’s three-part crime story, The Driver. For five seasons he portrayed railroad magnate Thomas Durant on AMC’s drama series Hell on Wheels.

Colm Meaney Net Worth

Colm Meaney is an Irish actor who has a net worth of $10 million dollars.

Colm Meaney Movies And TV Shows

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Nailed	Younger Protestant
1987	Omega Syndrome	Sean
1987	The Dead	Mr. Bergin
1990	Die Hard 2	Pilot
1990	Dick Tracy	Cop at Tess’s
1990	Come See the Paradise	Gerry McGurn
1991	The Commitments	Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
1992	Under Siege	Daumer
1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Maj. Ambrose
1992	Far and Away	Kelly
1992	Into the West	Barreller
1993	The Snapper	Dessie Curley	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1994	War of the Buttons	Jerome/Geronimo’s father
1994	The Road to Wellville	Dr. Lionel Badger
1995	The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain	Morgan the Goat
1996	The Van	Larry
1996	The Last of the High Kings	Jim Davern
1997	Con Air	DEA Agent Duncan Malloy
1997	Owd Bob	Keith Moore
1998	This Is My Father	Seamus, Owner of the Bed-and-Breakfast
1998	Monument Ave.	Jackie O’Hara	a.k.a. Snitch
1998	22 October	Steve
1998	Claire Dolan	Roland Cain
1999	Mystery, Alaska	Mayor Scott Pitcher
1999	Chapter Zero	Frank Lazarus
1999	Four Days	Fury
1999	Most Important	Dan O’Neill
2001	Backflash	Gin O’Malley	Video
2001	How Harry Became a Tree	Harry	Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor
2003	The Boys From County Clare	Jimmy
2003	Intermission	Jerry Lynch
2004	Blueberry	Jimmy McClure
2004	Layer Cake	Gene
2004	Nouvelle-France	Benjamin Franklin
2005	Turning Green	Tom
2006	Five Fingers	Gavin
2006	A Lobster Tale	Cody
2007	Kings	Joe Mullan	Nominated – Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor
2007	The Metrosexual	The Mayor	Great Lakes Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor
2008	Clean Break	Trevor Jones
2008	Three and Out	Tommy
2009	The Damned United	Don Revie
2009	The Race	Frank Kensay
2009	Law Abiding Citizen	Detective Dunnigan
2010	Get Him to the Greek	Jonathan Snow
2010	Alleged	H. L. Mencken
2010	Parked	Fred Daly
2010	The Conspirator	Gen. David Hunter
2011	El Perfecto Desconocido	Mark O’Reilly
2012	Whole Lotta Sole	Detective Weller	known as Stand Off in North America
2012	Bel Ami	Monsieur Rousset
2012	Soldiers of Fortune	Carter Mason
2012	The Hot Potato	Harry
2013	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa	Pat Farrell
2013	One Chance	Roland Potts
2013	A Belfast Story	Detective
2013	Free Birds	Myles Standish (voice)
2014	The Devil’s Hand	Elder Beacon
2016	Norm of the North	Grandfather (voice)
2016	Pelé: Birth of a Legend	George Raynor
2016	The Journey	Martin McGuinness
2016	The Secrets of Emily Blair	Father Avital
2017	Halal Daddy	Martin Logan
2018	Tolkien	Father Francis	In post-production
TBA	Against All Enemies	In post-production

Tv

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Z-Cars	McGlin	Episode: “Pressure”
1981	Les roses de Dublin	Michael Kavanaugh	Miniseries
1982	Play for Tomorrow	Kevin Murphy	Episode: “Easter 2016”
1982	Strangers	Smollett	Episode: “Charlie’s Brother’s Birthday (Part 1)
1983	Playboy of the Western World	Shawn	Television film
1984	The Hidden Curriculum	David Dunn	Television film
1986	Moonlighting	Katharina Suitor	Episode: “Atomic Shakespeare”
1987	Remington Steele	Man in Tavern	Episode: “Steele Hanging in There: Part 2”
1987	Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues	Tinkerer	Television film
1987	Tales from the Darkside	Constable	Episode: “Beetles”
1987–88	One Life to Live	Patrick London
1987–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Chief Miles O’Brien	52 episodes
1989	Perfect Witness	Meagher	Television film
1990	Equal Justice	Nucchi	Episode: “The Art of the Possible”
1990	Father Dowling Mysteries	Ernie	Episode: “The Undercover Nun Mystery”
1991	The New Adam-12	Father	Episode: “Panic in Alverez Park”
1991	MacGyver	Dr. Irwin Malcolm	Episode: “Good Knight MacGyver: Part 1”
1993	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Jake Slicker	Episode: “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
1993	Brooklyn Bridge	Mr. Kramer	Episode: “Good as Gold”
1993–99	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Chief Miles O’Brien	173 episodes
1994	Scarlett	Father Colum O’Hara	2 episodes
1996	Gargoyles	Mr. Dugan (voice)	Episode: “The Hound of Ulster”
1998	Money Kings	Al Sheehan	Television film; a.k.a. Vig
1999	The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns	Seamus Muldoon	Television film
2002	Random Passage	Thomas Hutchings	Miniseries Nominated – Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
2002	King of Texas	Mr. Tumlinson	Television film
2004	The Murdoch Mysteries	Inspector Brackenreid	2 episodes
2004	Bad Apple	Gibbons	Television film
2004, 2006	Stargate Atlantis	Chief Cowen	3 episodes
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Judge Harold Garrett	Episode: In the Wee Small Hours
2006	The Unit	Charge D’Affaires	Episode: “Security”
2006	Caved In: Prehistoric Terror	Vincent	Television film
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	Peter Howell	Television film
2007	Men in Trees	Bob O’Donnell	2 episodes
2008	Law & Order	Wyatt Landon	Episode: “Lost Boys”
2009	The Simpsons	Tom O’Flanagan (voice)	Episode: “In the Name of the Grandfather”
2009	Alice	King of Hearts	Miniseries
2009	ZOS: Zone of Separation	George Titac	Miniseries
2009	Mercy	Dr. Parks	Episode: “I Believe You Conrad”
2011–16	Hell on Wheels	Thomas “Doc” Durant	51 episodes Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2013) Nominated – Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor TV (2013)
2014	The Driver	The Horse	3 episodes
2015	Childhood’s End	Wainwright	Episode: “The Overlords”
2017	Will	James Burbage	10 episodes

Colm Meaney Star Trek

Chief Petty Officer Miles Edward O’Brien, played by Colm Meaney, is a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. O’Brien was originally the transporter chief of the USS Enterprise-D. He was later promoted to Chief of Operations of Deep Space Nine, and he also serves on the USS Defiant which is operated from that space station.

O’Brien is the only major Star Trek character described as both ethnically Irish and born on Earth in Ireland. Although not a member of bridge crew, he appears in over 50 TNG episodes, almost double the amount of Tasha Yar, and also more than semi-regular Ten-Forward confidant Guinan. On Deep Space Nine the character and his family’s story continue, and he is reunited with Worf in Season 4 of Deep Space Nine. Miles is often shown working on the Space Station, hanging out with Bashir or other main cast members, or going on away-missions on Runabouts or the USS Defiant.

Colm Meaney Hell On Wheels

Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series, which featured Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, and Dominique McElligott, chronicled the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile encampment, called “Hell on Wheels”, that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains.

In particular, the story focused on Cullen Bohannon (Mount), a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War. The series, which broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, aired from November 6, 2011 to July 23, 2016.

The series was created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton, and developed by Endemol USA, under the stewardship of senior vice-president of scripted programming Jeremy Gold, and it is produced by Entertainment One and Nomadic Pictures. In 2012, AMC announced creators Joe and Tony Gayton were no longer involved in the day-to-day production of the series. On December 12, 2012, AMC announced that writer John Wirth would take over as showrunner for the third season.

Season one (2011–12) began in 1865, shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, season two (2012) covered 1866, seasons three (2013) and four (2014) opened in 1867, season five (2015–16) carries the series into 1869. On November 7, 2014, Hell on Wheels was renewed for a fifth and final season comprising 14 episodes, split between 2015 and 2016.

Colm Meaney The Van

The Van is a 1996 film, based on the novel The Van (the third in The Barrytown Trilogy) by Roddy Doyle. Like The Snapper (1993), it was directed by Stephen Frears. (The first movie of the trilogy, The Commitments (1991), was directed by Alan Parker). It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Brendan “Bimbo” Reeves gets laid off from his job as a baker in Barrytown, a working-class quarter of Dublin. With his redundancy cheque, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his best mate, Larry. Due, in part, to Ireland’s surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well. But the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo and his wife, Maggie behave more and more like typical bosses.

Larry believes that Maggie is the cause of the strained friendship, as he thinks she is pushing Bimbo away from him. The van is closed down because of poor hygiene by health inspector, Des O’Callaghan. Bimbo thinks that Larry told the Health Board about the van, leading to a fight between the two. Larry quits the job, despite Bimbo’s best efforts to get him back. Bimbo then drives the van into the sea, so as to win his friendship with Larry back.

Colm Meaney The Snapper

The Snapper is a 1993 Irish television film which was directed by Stephen Frears and starred Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson. The film is based on the novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, about the Rabbitte family and their domestic adventures. For his performance, Meaney was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Young Sharon Curley becomes pregnant, but refuses to tell anyone who the father is. She decides to keep the baby (“snapper”) and her family, each in their own way, eventually decides to support her. Her father particularly studies up on childbirth and female anatomy (with gratifying results for his wife as a bonus).

Soon after a wild night at the pub, twenty-year-old Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) finds herself expecting a little “snapper” by a man she loathes. Her refusal to name the father sets in motion a family drama involving her three brothers, two sisters, and her parents, along with her employers and all her friends.

Kellegher, playing the role as a coarse, earthy, yet remarkably sensible young woman (with the exception of her excessive drinking during her pregnancy) soon discovers who her friends really are, as some people tease and torment her, some make remarks to her siblings, some force her father to take direct action in her defence, and all spread gossip.

Des Curley (Colm Meaney), Sharon’s father, shows the whole world in his face, his emotions ranging from outrage toward Sharon for embarrassing the family to tender concern as her time draws near. As the eight-member family trips all over each other emotionally (symbolised in their battles for the one bathroom, often occupied by Sharon), the tensions within the family grow more intense.

Widespread speculation about who the father is disrupts the neighbourhood, with some hotheads visiting their own brand of justice on the Curleys. The arrival of the baby offers a chance at resolution. It turns out that Sharon’s friend’s father, Georgie Burgess (Pat Laffan), got her pregnant after a night of heavy drinking. Sharon’s story is that it was a Spanish sailor, but the whole town suspects the truth.