Biography
An Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Rea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Miracle Club
2023
as Frank Dunne
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesqu...
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, the doc...
Nightride
2022
as Joe (voice)
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dang...
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022
as Self
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film sets...
Sadie
2021
as Self - Lyric Theatre
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast clea...
Secrets from Putumayo
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during...
Disclosure
2020
as Fergus (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
2019
as Self
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the ...
Lost Lives
2019
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Cyprus Avenue
2019
as Eric Miller
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old gran...
Greta
2019
as Brian Cody
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow mig...
Black '47
2018
as Conneely
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been...
Unquiet Graves
2018
as Narrator
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone ...
Hard Border
2018
as Self
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dw...
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch
2015
as Danforth
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces she sets out to use all her magical ...
Out of the Dark
2014
as Jordan
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
The Curse of Styria
2014
as Dr. Hill
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerg...
Asylum
2013
as McGahey
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atro...
Tasting Menu
2013
as Walter
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before s...
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
2012
as Doc
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
Stella Days
2012
as Brendan
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new ...
Underworld: Awakening
2012
as Dr. Jacob Lane
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Va...
Blackthorn
2011
as Mackinley
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...
Roadkill
2011
as Seamus
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form o...
The Heavy
2010
as Anawalt
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady ...
Ondine
2010
as Priest
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds ...
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
as Self
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...
Nothing Personal
2009
as Martin
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture s...
Spy(ies)
2009
as M. Palmer
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
as Doctor (voice)
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro...
Kisses
2008
as Down Under Dylan (uncredited)
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
The Devil's Mercy
2008
as Tyler
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the...
Stuck
2007
as Thomas Bardo
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
The Reaping
2007
as Father Costigan
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking r...
Celebration
2007
as Waiter
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an ad...
Until Death
2007
as Gabriel Callaghan
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges ...
Sisters
2006
as Dr. Philip Lacan
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins.
Sixty Six
2006
as Dr. Barrie
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
V for Vendetta
2006
as Finch
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
as Bertie
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother...
River Queen
2005
as Francis
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B...
Tara Road
2005
as Colm
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Control
2004
as Dr. Arlo Penner
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
The Halo Effect
2004
as Fatso
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is gett...
Fluent Dysphasia
2004
as Murph
Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter. He wakes one morning after a drunken night out, to...
Proud
2004
as Barney Garvey
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
The Good Shepherd
2004
as McCaran
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
The I Inside
2004
as Doctor Newman
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his br...
Bloom
2003
as Leopold Bloom
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters...
Evelyn
2002
as Michael Beattie
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...
Copenhagen
2002
as Niels Bohr
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the...
FearDotCom
2002
as Alistair
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious De...
The Musketeer
2001
as Cardinal Richelieu
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Snow in August
2001
as Rabbi Judah Hirsch
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
On the Edge
2001
as Dr. Figure
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.
In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
2000
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire.
The King's Wake
2000
as King Conor
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famo...
The End of the Affair
1999
as Henry Miles
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended ...
The Life Before This
1999
as Brian
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Guinevere
1999
as Connie Fitzpatrick
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
I Could Read the Sky
1999
as P.J.
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his fir...
This Is My Father
1999
as Mission Priest
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...
In Dreams
1999
as Doctor Silverman
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Still Crazy
1998
as Tony Costello
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an over...
The Butcher Boy
1998
as Da Brady
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...
Sink Or Swim
1997
as Brian
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter betwe...
Double Tap
1997
as Cypher
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Fever Pitch
1997
as Ray, the Governor
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher P...
A Further Gesture
1997
as Sean Dowd
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...
A Further Gesture
1997
Idea
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...
The Last of the High Kings
1996
as Cab Driver
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...
Michael Collins
1996
as Ned Broy
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...
Crime of the Century
1996
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Ri...
Trojan Eddie
1996
as Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
1996
as Voice
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his ...
Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "John Boorman")
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
All Men Are Mortal
1995
as Fosca
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
Shadow of a Gunman
1995
as Seamus Shields
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, D...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1995
as Nikos
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
Citizen X
1995
as Lt. Viktor Burakov
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17...
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Milo O'Brannigan
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Interview with the Vampire
1994
as Santiago
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Princess Caraboo
1994
as Gutch
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims ...
Angie
1994
as Noel Riordan
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have...
Bad Behavior
1993
as Gerry McAllister
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the...
Hedda Gabler
1993
as Eilert Lovborg
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up...
The Crying Game
1992
as Fergus
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...
Life Is Sweet
1990
as Patsy
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts o...
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Endgame
1989
as Clov
A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothing ...
Scout
1987
as Marshall
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.
Shergar
1986
as Frankie
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison,...
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Timothy Broom
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple wa...
Four Days in July
1984
as Dixie McConville
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
The House
1984
as The Soldier
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an of...
The Company of Wolves
1984
as Young Groom
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which i...
Loose Connections
1984
as Harry
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Angel
1982
as Danny
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedi...
Caleb Williams
1980
as Tyrell
The Out of Town Boys
1979
as Shay
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
The Seagull
1978
as Constantin
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man o...
Professional Foul
1977
as Hollar
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student i...
Early Struggles
1976
as Chas
Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clin...
Fugitive
1974
as Peter
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts r...
K is for Killing
1974
as Arden Buckley
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.
A Place Called Ardoyne
1973
as Narrator (voice)
The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Catholic community of Ardoyne. Includes interviews wit...
The Moonstone
1972
as Major Frayne
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. T...
Cry of the Banshee
1970
as Villager
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers hav...
Visitation
N/A
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers beco...