Paudge Behan

Acting

Paudge Behan

Born 1965-01-18 · Dublin, Ireland

Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book A Secret Affair (1996). Behan has also appeared in the feature films A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, A Lonely Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).

Acting credits

Veronica Guerin poster
6.7

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.

Veronica Guerin

2003

American Night poster
4.3

A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.

American Night

2021

Uncovered poster
5.6

While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.

Uncovered

1995

A Secret Affair poster
4.9

Vanessa Stewart is a beautiful American woman engaged to be married. Vanessa is an artist and is also a buyer for her father's company. She goes to Venice on a business trip and meets television reporter Bill Fitzgerald from Ireland. They fall madly in love in the four days they are in Venice.

A Secret Affair

1999

Conspiracy of Silence poster
4.8

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.

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

A Man of No Importance poster
6.2

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

A Man of No Importance

1994

London Kills Me poster
5.9

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.

London Kills Me

1991

Made in Dublin poster
NR

Lives collide and stories intersect in a film that takes the audience on a dramatic journey from the run down streets of inner city Dublin to the drug fuelled decadence of Hollywood and back to the glamorous escapism of the Dublin drag scene.

Made in Dublin

2023

Snakes and Ladders poster
4.4

A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.

Snakes and Ladders

1996

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4.0

In 1947, a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man.

A Lonely Sky

2006

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NR

A modern adaptation of 'The Cherry Orchard' by Anton Chekhov

The Orchard

2018

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NR

Finn O'Connor is a young, ambitious but penniless actor in Dublin. He's a hard worker and dedicated, but he just can't seem to catch a break. To pay the bills, he works at Luna, Dublin's most exclusive restaurant. When world-famous director Brendan Bloom arrives at Luna for dinner, Finn sees an opportunity to further his career. Flouting accepted etiquette, he boldly takes his chance to talk to the auteur. This decision is the catalyst for a twisted sequence of events that will change both men's lives forever, culminating in the performance of a lifetime from our young waiter.

Final Curtain

2020