Acting

Ian Dillon

Place of birth

Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Ian Dillon is an Irish actor. He was born in Dublin and is based in Limerick. He has worked on both TV and Film and is known for This Is Not A Murder Mystery, One Night Only, Blackshore, Smother, Hidden Assets, Bodkin and Foundation. He has also appeared in a number of TV Adverts and on billboard/print media.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

Cocaine Bear poster
6.0

Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.

Cocaine Bear

2023

Young Washington poster
7.7

Before he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and war closing in, he must choose who to trust and confront the leader he's becoming.

Young Washington

2026

Blue Moon poster
6.6

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”

Blue Moon

2025

Power Ballad poster
7.2

When Rick, a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves - even if it means risking everything he cares about.

Power Ballad

2026

LOLA poster
6.4

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

LOLA

2023

Freud's Last Session poster
6.6

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Freud's Last Session

2023

500 Miles poster
6.5

A broken family is forced to come together when 16-year-old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.

500 Miles

2026

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin poster
6.7

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024

Jimmy poster
NR

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and faith will win over everyone.

Jimmy

2026

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema poster
6.7

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema (Breathless, starring Richard Gere).

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

2026

Christmas in Notting Hill poster
6.0

Football star, Graham Savoy, has always been too busy for love, but when he comes home to Notting Hill for Christmas, he changes his mind after meeting the one person who has no idea who he is.

Christmas in Notting Hill

2023

The Lost Children of Tuam poster
9.3

When amateur historian Catherine Corless begins examining records from a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past. Refusing to let the questions go, she embarks on a painstaking investigation, putting her in conflict with the Church, State, and local town. As official resistance mounts, and unsettling discoveries emerge, her determination challenges powerful institutions, exposing a hidden chapter of Ireland's past that many would rather keep hidden.

The Lost Children of Tuam

2026

Re-Creation poster
6.4

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

Royal Rendezvous poster
6.2

A Chef from East L.A. received an invitation to a manor in Ireland to cook for a royal banquet that was planned by a Lord to convince his grandmother to sell their home.

Royal Rendezvous

2023

The Christmas Break poster
5.6

A married couple travel from Chicago to spend Christmas with the wife's family in a small town in Ireland. This is a holiday which will test their patience—and their marriage.

The Christmas Break

2023

Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars poster
NR

Blindboy Boatclub offers a fresh perspective on the legacy of early Irish Christianity

Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars

2024

Baptism Troubles poster
NR

A comedy drama about a little girl's Baptism.

Baptism Troubles

2024

Series credits

Foundation poster
7.7

Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Foundation

2021

Foundation poster
7.7

Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Foundation

2021

Foundation poster
7.7

Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Foundation

2021

Bad Sisters poster
7.5

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

Bad Sisters

2022

Harry Wild poster
6.7

A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.

Harry Wild

2022

Kin poster
7.6

The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.

Kin

2021

Hidden Assets poster
6.7

A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.

Hidden Assets

2021

Hidden Assets poster
6.7

A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.

Hidden Assets

2021

Sherlock & Daughter poster
6.8

Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.

Sherlock & Daughter

2025

The Tourist poster
6.8

When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

The Tourist

2022

The Tourist poster
6.8

When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

The Tourist

2022

Bodkin poster
6.5

A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.

Bodkin

2024

Smother poster
6.3

On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

Smother

2021

Smother poster
6.3

On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

Smother

2021

This Is Not a Murder Mystery poster
4.9

Set in the flamboyant 1930s, “This is not a murder mystery” reunites world renowned Surrealist artists, including young Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, who find themselves trapped in a lavish mansion with a mysterious serial killer on the loose.

This Is Not a Murder Mystery

2025

The Wayfinders poster
6.8

Follows three high schoolers mistakenly transported to a brutal medieval world. Falling in with unlikely comrades caught in a civil war, the teens fight for survival as they search for a way back home.

The Wayfinders

2025

Blackshore poster
6.6

A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark history.

Blackshore

2024

Small Town, Big Story poster
6.7

A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.

Small Town, Big Story

2025

The Doll Factory poster
6.9

Iris dreams of being an artist. Silas is a taxidermist who longs to be revered. Louis is a painter searching for his next muse. As their lives collide a love triangle appears to bloom. But this will morph into a story of dark obsession.

The Doll Factory

2023

Clean Sweep poster
6.4

Shelly Mohan is a regular mum who juggles the lives and schedules of three children and a husband who is a local detective. It’s a chaotic and mostly thankless life, but one with which she is happy…until a dark secret emerges from her past.

Clean Sweep

2023

Clean Sweep poster
6.4

Shelly Mohan is a regular mum who juggles the lives and schedules of three children and a husband who is a local detective. It’s a chaotic and mostly thankless life, but one with which she is happy…until a dark secret emerges from her past.

Clean Sweep

2023

Ros na Rún poster
7.5

Ros na Rún is a long-running Irish soap opera produced for the Irish language television channel, TG4. It was originally broadcast on RTÉ One in the early 1990s before the existence of TG4. It now broadcasts for 35 weeks of the year, airing 2 episodes each week from September to May. The programme is set in a fictional village called Ros Na Rún, located outside Galway, and near Spiddal, and centres around the domestic and professional lives of its residents. It is modelled on an average village in the West of Ireland but with its own distinct personality – diverse population that share secrets, romances, friendships etc. While the core community has remained the same, the look and feel of Ros Na Rún has changed and evolved over the years to incorporate the changing face of rural Ireland. It has established a place not only in the hearts and minds of the Irish speaking public, but also the wider Irish audience.

Ros na Rún

1996