Owen McDonnell

Owen McDonnell

Born: January 1, 1974
in Galway, Ireland
Born 1974, Owen McDonnell is an Irish actor best known for playing Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in RTÉ Television's Single-Handed and Niko Polastri in BBC America's Killing Eve.

Movies for Owen McDonnell...

Title: Great Expectations
Character: Joe
Released: March 26, 2023
Type: TV
The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.
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Love & Gelato
Title: Love & Gelato
Character: Howard
Released: June 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.
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Title: The Holiday
Character: Sean
Released: March 1, 2022
Type: TV
The story follows Kate, a woman who discovers that her husband is having an affair during a luxurious holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. The troubled couple are sharing a villa with four of Kate’s closest friends, one of which is the adulterous partner, but she doesn’t realise that the guilty party could be prepared to kill in order to keep their secret safe.
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Title: Three Families
Character: Mark
Released: May 10, 2021
Type: TV
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
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Responsible Child
Title: Responsible Child
Character: Pete
Released: December 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Ray, a twelve-year-old boy, must confront the British legal system when he is accused of murder.
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Title: Women on the Verge
Character: Sean
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
The lives of three women in their 30s, as they navigate the challenges of life, love and relationships. Whilst everyone else is settling down, married with kids, and increasingly in control of their lives, Laura, Katie and Alison seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
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Title: Killing Eve
Character: Niko Polastri
Released: April 8, 2018
Type: TV
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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The Poor Mouth
Title: The Poor Mouth
Character: O'Cunasa
Released: July 16, 2017
Type: Movie
An animated adaptation of Flann O’ Brien’s acclaimed 1941 novel in Irish. A biting satire on the highly popular Gaeltacht autobiographies of the time and widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century.
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Title: Paula
Character: McArthur
Released: May 25, 2017
Type: TV
A chemistry teacher's life is turned upside down after a one-night stand with James. They become locked in a dance of destruction. Only one can survive.
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Title: My Mother and Other Strangers
Character: Michael Coyne
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: TV
Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
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Minutes Past Midnight
Title: Minutes Past Midnight
Character: Michael (segment 'Ghost Train')
Released: October 18, 2016
Type: Movie
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.
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Death or Liberty
Title: Death or Liberty
Character: Philip Cunningham
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Between 1793 and 1867 the British Government banished its radicals, dissenters and rebels to harsh prison colonies at the very edge of the known world, Australia. Some escaped and returned to their homeland as heroes but many stayed on in this alien new world... The life stories of these rebels are full of acts of bravery and derring-do. In their own words they tell tales that are at once stirring, heart wrenching, dark, creepy, and even funny.
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Title: Dominion Creek
Character: Tom Connolly
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: TV
The story of the Connolly Brothers; three Irish emigrants who travel from Montana to the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890’s in the hope of striking it rich where they become embroiled in a deadly feud with the man who runs the town.
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Swung
Title: Swung
Character: David
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: Movie
David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His girlfriend, Alice, is his rock, but the magazine she writes for is going down and the pressure is on to find a story. While job hunting online, David stumbles across the perfect antidote to his boredom: a ‘Swingers’ site. The resulting inbox of lewd invitations on the home-laptop justifiably upsets Alice, until she realises this could be just the ‘story’ she needs. The idea of uncovering the swinging scene causes quite a stir in Alice’s office and, much to David’s chagrin, she is urged to pursue the story. Their first reluctant foray is an hysterically low-rent initiation, however, an unexpected upturn for David’s manhood is all the extra encouragement they need. As events accelerate beyond their control the once adoring couple become lost and fundamental questions are asked of their relationship.
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Title: An Bronntanas
Character: Fiachra
Released: October 23, 2014
Type: TV
A lifeboat crew discovers millions of euros worth of drugs on a fishing boat off the coast of Ireland.
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Fiachra Greene
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: Movie
An Bronntanas is a contemporary Irish crime thriller set against the backdrop of the Connemara Coastline on the West of Ireland and the dramatic lives of a local lifeboat crew. The story is told through both Irish and English.
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Title: True Detective
Character: Raymond Clark
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: TV
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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Ghost Train
Title: Ghost Train
Character: Michael
Released: July 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground yard where their friend Sam went missing when they were boys. Both men's' lives are colored by what happened the day their friend was sucked inside the Ghost Train, never to return. This year, Michael has something to tell Peter that will cast fresh light on the incident, something that will change their lives even more than that fateful day 30 years ago...
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Made in Belfast
Title: Made in Belfast
Character: Smith
Released: April 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Jack Kelly is a successful novelist who leads a reclusive life in his apartment in Paris. His first novel, Made in Belfast, was a critical and commercial success – there was only one problem: it exposed the private lives and innermost secrets of his close friends and family, and none of them have spoken to him since he ran away. But when circumstances conspire to bring him back to his hometown for a few days, he decides to spend that time putting things right with the friends he betrayed, the brother he abandoned, and the fiancée he jilted.
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A Terrible Beauty
Title: A Terrible Beauty
Character: Ned Daly
Released: February 16, 2013
Type: Movie
A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge. The British soldiers were the last of the Great War volunteers, who joined up together to fight the Germans. They knew that there was a strong chance they would die in France, but to die in Dublin would never have crossed their minds. The Irish Volunteers were weekend warriors many of whom had no idea they were about to take part in large scale battles on the streets of Dublin.
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SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Title: SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Character: Herbert Stone
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?
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Saving the Titanic
Title: Saving the Titanic
Character: Trimmer Thomas Dillon
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: Movie
In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Callum Wilding
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Rewind
Title: Rewind
Character: Brendan
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Karen, a recovering addict, has settled into a successful new life with her husband and young daughter. When Karl, an old boyfriend recently released from prison, turns up unexpectedly, Karen's buried past comes back to haunt her. Karen is forced to go on a road trip and confront a world she thought she'd escaped from if she is to protect her family and her future.
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Wild Decembers
Title: Wild Decembers
Character: Joseph Brennan
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.
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An Ranger
Title: An Ranger
Character: An Ranger
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Conamara, 1854 - Five years after the Great Famine. After many years abroad in the service of the British Army, a soldier returns home to find that his family are all dead. He visits a neighbour to establish what happened to them.
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Title: Single-Handed
Character: Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: TV
Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the Garda Síochána, Sergeant Jack Driscoll. Three two-episode, single-story series aired one each on consecutive nights in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Series Four, consisting of three stories told over six episodes, began in RTÉ One November 2010. The series is partially inspired by garda corruption in County Donegal.
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Conspiracy of Silence
Title: Conspiracy of Silence
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Ryan Kelvin
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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The Sniper's Daughter
Title: The Sniper's Daughter
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled American teen is stranded in Northern Ireland when her father is suddenly arrested for an IRA related murder from seventeen years prior. Teaming up with her delinquent cousin, together they pry into the buried secrets from their family’s past.