Barry McEvoy

Barry McEvoy

Born: July 11, 1967
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Barry McEvoy is an Irish film actor/writer best known for writing and playing the lead in An Everlasting Piece (2000), directed by Barry Levinson. McEvoy's first screen appearance of note was in the supporting role of a gangster in Gloria (1999), filmed after he had spent a decade performing in Off Broadway plays in New York City. McEvoy also appears in Gettysburg (1993), Veronica Guerin (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and Five Minutes of Heaven (2009).

McEvoy based the screenplay of An Everlasting Piece upon the adventures of his own father selling toupées to both Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the height of the conflict.

Before his career in film, Barry was lead singer for legendary 1980s Washington, D.C., punk band Phlegm, who released several records before disbanding in 1988.

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Movies for Barry McEvoy...

You're Not Home
Title: You're Not Home
Character: Management officer
Released: July 8, 2022
Type: Movie
When an ominous mould appears in their room, two African brothers seeking asylum are faced with a dark entity lurking within their direct provision centre.
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The Barber Shop
Title: The Barber Shop
Released: December 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A young kid who has been the butt of an ongoing cruel joke gets to have the last laugh.
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Title: Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Chorley
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: TV
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Title: Five Minutes of Heaven
Character: Joe's Chauffeur
Released: January 19, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Character: Carruthers' Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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Veronica Guerin
Title: Veronica Guerin
Character: Gilligan Gang Member #2
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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Gods and Generals
Title: Gods and Generals
Character: Marion Sibert
Released: February 21, 2003
Type: Movie
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.
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An Everlasting Piece
Title: An Everlasting Piece
Character: Colm
Released: December 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
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Gloria
Title: Gloria
Character: Terry
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
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Gettysburg
Title: Gettysburg
Character: 2nd Maine Soldier
Released: October 8, 1993
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.