Brendan Conroy

Acting

Brendan Conroy

Born 1947-11-17 · Tuam, County Galway, Ireland

Brendan Conroy is an Irish actor renowned for his impactful roles in film, television, and theater. Known for performances in The Ballroom of Romance, Albert Nobbs, and The Banshees of Inisherin, Conroy has also been a prominent figure in Irish theater, frequently collaborating with the Abbey Theatre.

Acting credits

Hokum poster
6.9

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

Hokum

2026

The Green Knight poster
6.6

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

The Green Knight

2021

The Bounty poster
6.8

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.

The Bounty

1984

The Secret of Roan Inish poster
6.7

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

The Secret of Roan Inish

1994

An Awfully Big Adventure poster
6.5

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

The Butcher Boy poster
6.8

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

The Butcher Boy

1998

No artwork available
NR

Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanishes to a remote Irish village, only to find that disappearing is the one thing the town — and Lou, an eccentric young woman with a curious dog — won't let him do.

The Body Is Water

The General poster
6.7

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

The General

1998

Samanta Nobody poster
NR

A 16-year-old homeless girl on the streets of Sligo town. For Samanta, reaching out for help has only ever ended in closed doors, but she has a hidden gift for songwriting and performance. When a music shop owner spots her talent, she has a chance to finally accept that music could be the open door she’s been waiting for.

Samanta Nobody

2026

This Is My Father poster
5.8

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.

This Is My Father

1999

Re-Creation poster
6.2

In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these twelve people, a case that ultimately invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions.

Re-Creation

2025

Abode poster
NR

In ABODE, five interwoven stories explore the meaning of home, across city streets and country kitchens, strained families and surreal technologies, revealing how identity, memory, and connection shape the places we call our own.

Abode

2025

The Legend of Longwood poster
5.3

When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious Black Knight, who regularly haunts the sleepy Irish village. With courage and a sharp mind, she sets out to save a precious herd of white horses and to thwart the evil plans of a greedy, ambitious woman.

The Legend of Longwood

2014

Cecelia Ahern: Dich zu lieben poster
NR

Claire Lynam, restorer in Dubliner City Gallery, loved banker Mark Gallagher, who dies in a car crash. Not even pregnant buddy colleague Fiona Sullivan can divert Claire. Since Claire painted Mark's portrait, he appears to her. Claire clings to this illusion. Fiona drags her to an opening party of Sean Bennett's artistic furniture shop. The former arts teacher approaches Claire as would be artist and as woman. Claire discovers she must let go. As the crash trial approaches, Marks parents Gerald and Vera Gallagher contact his ex. Discovering Sean caused Mark's fatal accident, Claire breaks up and plans to emigrate to the USA, but Fiona reminds her of godmother promises.

Cecelia Ahern: Dich zu lieben

2018

Foscadh poster
5.5

When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless recluse John Cunliffe discovers their land to be extremely valuable, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.

Foscadh

2021

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

That They May Face the Rising Sun poster
7.2

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2024

Deadly Cuts poster
4.5

A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.

Deadly Cuts

2021

Stella Days poster
6.4

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.

Stella Days

2012

Lost and Found poster
5.7

'Lost and Found' is a film with 7 interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.

Lost and Found

2018

Float Like a Butterfly poster
5.9

Irish Traveller Frances has to fight for the right to pursue her passion... boxing. She is determined to make her idol Muhammad Ali proud, as well as her father who has recently been released from prison. But when she wants to show him just how tough she is, she soon comes to realise he's got other plans for her.

Float Like a Butterfly

2019

A Love Divided poster
6.5

The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

A Love Divided

1999

No artwork available
8.5

The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

The Lilac Bus

1990

No artwork available
NR

A dirty container filled with holy water. A city canal. A haunted father struggles to make amends as a family falls apart.

If I Should Fall Behind

2009