Domhnall Gleeson

At 41 years old, Domhnall Gleeson has this physical status:

Domhnall Gleeson (born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor, voice actor, and writer.

He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in a number of films and theatre projects.

He received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts from Dublin Institute of Technology. During the early stages of his career, Gleeson directed and wrote several short films, garnered a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his role in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and had a supporting role in Never Let Me Go. He became known to a wider audience for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), along with his father Brendan Gleeson, who played Alastor Moody; Konstantin Levin in Anna Karenina (2012); Tim Lake in About Time (2013); and Russell Allen Phillips in the fact-based war drama Unbroken (2014).

Gleeson has won three IFTA Awards for his performances in When Harvey Met Bob (2010), Anna Karenina (2012), and Frank (2014). In 2015, Gleeson received widespread recognition and praise for his performances in four Academy Award-nominated films: Caleb Smith in Ex Machina, Jim Farrell in Brooklyn, Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant, and General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

In 2017, he appeared in Mother! alongside his brother Brian Gleeson, co-starred in American Made, portrayed A. A. Milne in Goodbye Christopher Robin and reprised his role as General Hux in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

In 2018, he starred in a live-action adaptation of Peter Rabbit.

Early life

Gleeson was born the eldest of four boys in Dublin, Ireland. He was raised in Malahide, County Dublin, the eldest son of Mary (née Weldon) and actor Brendan Gleeson. He has three brothers: Fergus, Brian (also an actor), and Rory. He attended Malahide Community School, where he performed in school productions of Grease and King Lear. Gleeson later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Personal life

Gleeson resides in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Gleeson shares a love of the English football team Aston Villa with his father Brendan. He described the team's FA Cup semifinal win over Liverpool at Wembley Stadium in 2015, as one of the "great days of my life".

In an April 2020 interview with The Guardian, Gleeson stated that it never crossed his mind to change his surname at the beginning of his career to stay out of his father's shadow. His reasoning was that his father was not as well-known internationally at that time, and everyone in the Irish film industry already knew of their relationship.

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Career

Gleeson began directing and writing for both film and theatre after graduating. James D'Arcy and Paloma Baeza appeared in the British television miniseries Rebel Heart in 2001. In Martin McDonagh's short film Six Shooter, which starred his father, Gleeson made his film debut in 2004. The film received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He appeared in a small part in the 2005 horror film Boy Eats Girl. Gleeson appeared in Studs, his father appeared alongside him in 2006. In 2005, he was one of the main cast members of the RTÉ comedy television series The Last Furlong. At the age of three, Gleeson appeared on The Lieutenant of Inishmore, earning a Tony Award nomination for his work as the dim-witted Davey. Herbert Pocket appeared in Hugh Leonard's Hugh Leonard version of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in late 2007. Bruce Arnold, an Irish Independent critic, was described as being "wittily played" in the role. He appeared as Bobby in the David Mamet play American Buffalo earlier this year, as well as at the Gate Theatre.

Gleeson appeared on One-Off RTÉ comedy sketch show Your Bad Self, which was broadcast on December 26, 2009, and then developed into a series in 2010. Bill Weasley had been cast in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in March 2009. In the series, Brendan's father appears as Alastor Moody. Gleeson had initially been reluctant to appear alongside his father in the same film, but then changed his mind. "I'd been really sure about not doing the acting stuff because of my father's," he said of his appearance in 2006: "I'd been really positive about not wanting to do the acting thing." I was sure I'd still have the 'He got you the job,'" even though I thought I'd have the father-son thing. Jonathan Bridges, a comedian, appeared in Jeff Bridges' 2009 film A Dog Year, starring Anthony Armstrong. Gleeson also played a young farmer whose "soulless encounter" with a call-girl "develops into a bittersweet love tale" later this year.

Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield appeared in his first release of 2010: Never Let Me Go, a dystopian romance starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield. Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in November 2010, but Part 2 was released the following July. Bill Weasley, Ron Weasley's older brother, was portrayed by him, exposing Gleeson to a broader audience. Gleeson was the star of the multi Academy Award-nominated Coen Brothers' film True Grit, a young outlaw. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Noben, his father and brother's short comedy film, was shown. In the television film When Harvey Met Bob, which was broadcast on BBC Four on December 26, 2010, he portrayed musician Bob Geldof as the man orchestrates the 1985 Live Aid concert. For his role in the film, Gleeson received the 2011 Ifta Award for Best Actor.

Shadow Dancer, an IRA member whose own sister informs him of his MI5 entry, was released in August 2012. In Anna Karenina, based on Leo Tolstoy's book, Gleeson played landowner Kostya Levin. Tim Robey praised his work, adding that Gleeson's "intuitiveness without sentimentalizing what can make him difficult work." In which he appeared as the titular Judge Dredd, the science fiction action film Dredd starred Karl Urban, who played an unidentified computer expert with the gang Dredd battles against.

In "Be Right Back," an episode of the science-fiction anthology film Black Mirror in 2013, Gleeson made a guest appearance. He was a man who was killed in a car accident but returned to his lover as a mechanical android clone of himself. Gleeson appeared in About Time, a romantic comedy written and directed by Richard Curtis later this year. The story follows a young man played by Gleeson who wins over an American girl played by Rachel McAdams. In June 2012, filming took place in London, England. Catherine Shaord of The Guardian described Gleeson as a "ginger Hugh Grant" at first, but "the result, at first, is scary; as About Time progresses, Gleeson's natural charm shines, and this strange disconnection becomes much more convincing."

In Lenny Abrahamson's Frank (2014), he portrayed Jon, a aspiring young musician who joins the band of the eccentric, papier-mâché head-wearing titular character played by Michael Fassbender. In the Irish drama Calvary, Gleeson played a minor role as a psychotic killer, starring his father as a Catholic priest who visits him in prison. Angelina Jolie's debut directorial debut, Unbroken, was his last film release of 2014. In the film, Gleeson portrayed a soldier lost at sea after a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. He weighed in on what he described as a "sizable amount" of weight" for the role. Gleeson, a comedian, created and appeared in the Immatürity For Charity sketch comedy sketches, which raise funds for the St. Francis Hospice in Raheny, Dublin, alongside his father and brother Brian. In 2014, Gleeson produced and appeared in a music video for the Squarehead charity single "2025" with 100% of the funds going to Immatüry For Charity.

Gleeson appeared in four films in 2015, none of which were nominated for Oscars. Ex Machina, a science fiction psychological thriller that was shot at a hotel in Valldalen, Norway, in the summer of 2013 and released in January 2015. It was his first release of the year. Gleeson plays Gleeson in a competition to visit the home of his company's CEO (Oscar Isaac) and test the human characteristics of the robot Ava, which is played by Alicia Vikander. Alex Garland, a screenwriter from Never Let Me Go and Dredd's third collaboration, made the film their first directorial debut. Ex Machina's success, screenplay, direction, and visual effects had earned critical acclaim for its results, screenplay, position, and visual effects. He appeared in a supporting role as a romantic interest in Saoirse Ronan's story, a young Irish woman living in Brooklyn in the 1950s. In April 2014, Gleeson was announced to be a part of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In December 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first installment, was published. General Hux, the commander of the First Order's Starkiller Base, appears in Gleeson's ruthless General Hux. Hux is fighting for leadership with First Order commander Kylo Ren, who is portrayed by Adam Driver throughout the film. Andrew Henry, a fur trader in Alejandro G. Irritu's western, co-starred Gleeson, as fur trader Hugh Glass, with Leonardo DiCaprio portraying fur trapper Hugh Glass in his last release of the year. Gleeson, Brian and his father Brendan, appeared in a revival of Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce from January to February 2015. In February 2016, Gleeson narrated the BBC Two nature documentary series Earth's Greatest Spectacles.

In a short Christmas-themed advertisement film for Burberry's founder, Thomas Burberry, Gleeson appeared in a Burberry-themed advertisement film for the company in 2016. In March 2017, he made a guest appearance on Channel 4's Catastrophe as a recruiting consultant. Monty Schafer, a fictional CIA agent who appeared in American Made in September 2017, starring Tom Cruise as drug smuggler Barry Seal. Also in September, Gleeson appeared in Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film Mother! In the independent film Crash Pad, he appeared alongside Christina Applegate and Thomas Haden Church and portrayed Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.. In the biographical film Goodbye Christopher Robin, A. Milne appears. Milne's portrayal by BBC analyst Nicholas Barber was described as "too stiffly." In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Gleeson reprised his role as General Hux.

Gleeson co-starred in the biographical film A Futile and Stupid Gesture, opposite Will Forte as the magazine's co-founder and writer Henry Beard in his first film of the year. Thomas McGregor, the great-grandnephew and heir to Mr. McGregor, appeared in Peter Rabbit (2018), based on Beatrix Potter's stories. Critics generally dismissed the film, but Deadline Hollywood journalist Pete Hammond praised "an engaging Gleeson" for "overcoming Thomas' unlikable characteristics." The film did well at the box office, grossing over $350 million globally. In the short film Psychic, which was directed by the latter and premiered on Sky Arts in 2018, Gleeson appeared alongside his brother and father.

In 2018, Gleeson appeared in the supernatural drama The Little Stranger, alongside Ruth Wilson. The tale follows a country doctor (Gleeson) who takes on a patient in a possibly haunted old house, where he falls in love with the owner's youngest daughter (Wilson). Following Frank, it was Gleeson's second collaboration with director Lenny Abrahamson. He will be seen again in a supporting role in the crime drama The Kitchen (2019) as an ardent Vietnam War veteran who becomes a hitman for the Irish Mob.

In late 2019, Gleeson reprised his role as General Hux in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the last film in the nine-movie series. In Peter Rabbit 2 (2021), he reprised his role as Thomas McGregor.

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