Biography
Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and has a significant career in motion pictures.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Legend of the Happy Worker
2025
Follows Joe who battles to save what he and others have spent years building.

Re-Creation
2025
In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du...

Bring Them Down
2025
as Ray
When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devasta...

The Problem with People
2024
as Ciáran
Two estranged cousins who never knew each other try to make amends for many generations of family dispute.

Duchess
2024
as Frank Monaghan
A tough, working-class petty criminal is drawn into the treacherous world of diamond smuggling and morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in ...

The Ballad of Davy Crockett
2024
as Caleb
In 1815, an American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own, must fight his way back to them ac...

No Way Up
2024
as Brandon
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for s...

In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023
as Robert McQue
In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the la...

There's Always Hope
2023
as Jonathan
Author Jonathan Stack, who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and e...

Marlowe
2023
as Bernie Ohls
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to tr...

Unwelcome
2023
as Colm “Daddy” Whelan
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in th...

Three Day Millionaire
2022
as Mr. Barr
A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

Three Day Millionaire
2022
Executive Producer
A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

Confession
2022
as Father Peter
A wounded, bloodied man takes a priest hostage, hell-bent on confessing a vengeful truth before it is too late. The seemingly random encounter is soon...

Save the Cinema
2022
as Martyn
The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre ...

The Monkey
2021
as MacDonell
In 1588, a castaway from the Spanish Armada, sent from Portugal by Philip II of Spain to conquer England, is captured on an Irish beach. There he is t...

Pixie
2020
as Dermot O'Brien
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destin...

The Banker
2020
as Patrick Barker
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream. Nicholas Hou...

Seberg
2019
as Frank Ellroy
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement ...

The Last Right
2019
as Detective Donall Crowley
Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Irel...

Tolkien
2019
as Father Francis Morgan
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond...

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
as Self
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the f...

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2018
as Big Daddy
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex...

Halal Daddy
2017
as Martin Logan
While managing a run down abattoir, young Muslim Raghdan Aziz stumbles through cultural chaos and generational conflicts, dealing with enraged fathers...

The Journey
2017
as Martin McGuinness
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...

The Secrets of Emily Blair
2016
as Father Avital
Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016
as George Raynor
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016
as Coach George Raynor
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Norm of the North
2016
as Grandfather (voice)
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in N...

I Am Your Father
2015
as Narrator (voice)
David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has...

A Dangerous Arrangement
2015
as Leslie
In a secluded cove in Malta, a beautiful young woman tries to drown herself. Her name is Ellen, a night club employee who just days before trying to e...

The Devil's Hand
2014
as Elder Beacon
Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" befor...

The Yank
2014
as Fintan McGuire
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.

Free Birds
2013
as Myles Standish (voice)
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and ...

A Belfast Story
2013
as Detective
A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without win...

One Chance
2013
as Roland Potts
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night...

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
as Patt Farrell
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to ...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013
as Chief Miles O'Brien (archive footage)
The Enterprise has a deadly encounter with the Borg, resulting in Picard's kidnap, while Commander Riker encounters a beautiful rival with an eye on h...

Soldiers of Fortune
2012
as Mason
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.

The Cold Light of Day
2012
as Bandler
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence age...

Bel Ami
2012
as Monsieur Rousset
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from povert...

The Perfect Stranger
2011
as Mark O'Reilly
The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who w...

Whole Lotta Sole
2011
as Detective Weller
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned...

The Conspirator
2011
as David Hunter
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

The Flight of the Swan
2011
as Giannopoulos
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress an...

The Hot Potato
2011
as Harry
The 'Hot Potato' is an exciting new British period ‘caper movie’, in the spirit of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Two Way Stretch’ and is based on real events...

Alleged
2010
as H.L. Mencken
Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles...

Parked
2010
as Fred Daly
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely worl...

Get Him to the Greek
2010
as Jonathan Snow
Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar wh...

The Race
2009
as Frank Kensay
The story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community who dreams of becoming a racing driver.

Law Abiding Citizen
2009
as Detective Dunnigan
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer...

The Damned United
2009
as Don Revie
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to...

Three and Out
2008
as Tommy Cassidy
A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.

Unnatural Causes
2008
as Trevor Jones
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company dec...

Kings
2007
as Joe Mullan
In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, ...

Five Fingers
2006
as Gavin
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, howeve...

Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
2006
as Vincent
An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed do...

A Lobster Tale
2006
as Cody
Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the scho...

Turning Green
2005
as Tom
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced t...

Battle of the Brave
2004
as Benjamin Franklin
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

Layer Cake
2004
as Gene
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...

The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
2004
as Inspector Brackenreid
Detective William Murdoch is called upon to investigate the death of police constable Oliver Wicken, who is believed to have committed suicide. Howeve...

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
2004
as Inspector Brackenreid
In late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witne...

Bad Apple
2004
as Gibbons
Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.

Renegade
2004
as Jimmy McClure
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily ad...

Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era
2003
as Himself

The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003
as Jimmy
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Intermission
2003
as Jerry Lynch
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and gr...

King of Texas
2002
as Mr. Tumlinson
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his thr...

Random Passage
2002
as Thomas Hutchings
This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-t...

Backflash
2002
as Gin O'Malley
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.

How Harry Became a Tree
2001
as Harry
Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powe...

Intimacy
2001
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to ...

Chapter Zero
1999
as Frank Lazaras
A novelist examines his life and ambition when his world is turned upside down by a sultry publisher.

Mystery, Alaska
1999
as Mayor Scott Pitcher
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpecte...

Four Days
1999
as Fury
A teenaged boy becomes tangled up in a botched bank robbery attempt mastermined by his father and his father's friend.

This Is My Father
1999
as Seamus
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he loo...

Money Kings
1998
as Al Sheehan
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger p...

October 22
1998
as Steve
A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT tea...

Monument Ave.
1998
as Jackie O'Hara
Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one ...

Claire Dolan
1998
as Roland Cain
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.

Owd Bob
1998
as Keith Moore
Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, h...

Con Air
1997
as Agent Duncan Malloy
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

The Last of the High Kings
1996
as Jim Davern
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood...

The Van
1996
as Larry
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips w...
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
1996
as Self
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on 4 November ...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995
as Miles O'Brien
When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant...

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995
as Morgan the Goat
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the of...

The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
1995
as Self
How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?

The Road to Wellville
1994
as Dr. Lionel Badger
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...

War of the Buttons
1994
as Geronimo's Dad
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
1994
as Chief Miles O'Brien
Q returns as Capt. Picard finds himself continually shifting into the past, future, and present, and he must use that to discover a threat to humanity...

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
1994
as Self
Your destination: the 24th century. Your mission: to voyage where few have gone before--behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Join Jona...

The Snapper
1993
as Dessie Curley
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father,...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary
1993
as Miles O'Brien
Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993
as Himself
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep S...

Into the West
1992
as Barreller
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Under Siege
1992
as Daumer
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've plann...

The Last of the Mohicans
1992
as Major Ambrose
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...

Far and Away
1992
as Kelly
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
1991
as Miles O'Brien (archive footage)
Loyalties are divided when civil war splits the Klingon Empire. When Worf sees a chance to regain his wrongfully lost family honor, he must choose bet...

The Commitments
1991
as Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First h...

Come See the Paradise
1990
as Gerry McGurn
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a ...

Die Hard 2
1990
as Windsor Plane - Pilot
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...

Dick Tracy
1990
as Cop at Tess'
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Perfect Witness
1989
as Meagher
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Q...

The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
as Tinkerer
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and...

The Dead
1987
as Mr. Bergin
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

Omega Syndrome
1986
as Sean
An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down t...

Easter 2016
1982
as Kevin Murphy
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between t...

Nailed
1981
as Younger Protestant
In a holding centre in Northern Ireland a member of the RUC attempts to interrogate a suspect.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
N/A
A lonely elderly widow named Tova forms an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly cephalopod octopus named Marcellus, but unbeknownst to her, Marcell...
Shelter Me
N/A
Jon Boylan, an A.I. research scientist, develops a remote monitoring system that exposes personal struggles, weaknesses and strengths during the isola...