Gavin Drea

Acting

Gavin Drea

Dublin, Ireland

Gavin Drea is an Irish actor and comedian. He is known for his roles in the RTÉ series Love/Hate (2011), the BBC drama My Mother and Other Strangers (2017), the Star series Wedding Season (2022) and the Apple TV+ series Surface (2025). Drea is also the male voice for V in Cyberpunk 2077.

Acting credits

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets poster
6.7

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

2017

What Richard Did poster
5.7

What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.

What Richard Did

2012

My Salinger Year poster
6.3

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

My Salinger Year

2020

Sweetness in the Belly poster
6.3

Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.

Sweetness in the Belly

2019

Sharp Corner poster
5.8

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

Sharp Corner

2025

GAP poster
NR

Haunted by his father’s accidental death thirty years ago, Stephen leads a masked kidnapper to his childhood home instead of just talking to his wife.

GAP

2025

Baby Steps poster
NR

Em is 7-months pregnant and feels no connection to the baby inside her. She tries to follow the instructions of an outdated tape called How to Connect with your Unborn Child – chaos ensues.

Baby Steps

2023

We Ourselves poster
NR

We Ourselves is an unconventional drama about isolation and belonging, about being alone with one’s own thoughts while being part of a shared experience, culture and nation. It takes us into the minds and hearts of a group of idealists and careerists as they take their separate paths in life. These people will tell you that they are the best of friends. They believe they are from the same country, yet in the privacy of a room, they are apart, alone and in a state of exile.

We Ourselves

2018

Break Us poster
NR

Mark and Sophie plan to rob a post office but as things go awry, they each discover what they're really made of.

Break Us

2019