Karl Shiels

Karl Shiels

Born: September 25, 1971
Died: July 15, 2019
in Dublin, Ireland
Karl Shiels (15 September 1971 – 15 July 2019) was an Irish actor of both stage and screen.

His stage roles included Henry IV, Part 1, Penelope, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shadow of a Gunman and This Lime Tree Bower. His screen roles included Fair City, Peaky Blinders and Batman Begins.

Movies for Karl Shiels...

Noble
Title: Noble
Character: Driver
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
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Davin
Title: Davin
Character: Damo
Released: August 10, 2014
Type: Movie
An ensemble of mourners travel in their cars to the funeral of an Irishman who took his life in a car.
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Title: The Walshes
Character: Mr. O'Leary
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: TV
The show follows the Walshes, a tight-knit family living in the fictional West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Brendan
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A troubled teenage girl and an unhappily married man meet in secret. They both have something to escape from. Now they need to find out if there is somewhere to escape to. And whether they have what it takes to make the leap.
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Title: Peaky Blinders
Character: Ryan
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: TV
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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Title: Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Neil Sutherland
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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Shadow Dancer
Title: Shadow Dancer
Character: Mulville's Driver / Gunman
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Haywire
Title: Haywire
Character: Goatee
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
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W.C.
Title: W.C.
Character: Rodney
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Character: Breffni Grehan (as Karl Shiels)
Released: November 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A married couple's relationship begins to fall apart as their 10th wedding anniversary approaches.
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Batman Begins
Title: Batman Begins
Character: Arkham Thug #3
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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Capital Letters
Title: Capital Letters
Character: Keely
Released: July 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Taiwo hopes to make a life for herself and her twin sister in the faraway city of Dublin. Fearing what may await her on her arrival, Taiwo makes a desperate bid for freedom from her Dublin smugglers. However she is hunted down by a petty thief and conman, Keely, who on kidnapping her, decides to tell nobody of his catch and brings the girl home.
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Intermission
Title: Intermission
Character: Wayne
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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 grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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Veronica Guerin
Title: Veronica Guerin
Character: Gilligan Gang Member #1
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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Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
Title: Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
Character: Che Guevara
Released: May 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Short film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.
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Getting Close
Title: Getting Close
Character: Philip Gillespie
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
It's been two weeks. Jane can't get Philip out of her head. There would be fewer problems with a single man, but she's getting close.