Martin McCann
Birthday: Born in 1983-07-20 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Deathday: Alive
Martin McCann grew up with a brother and sister in the Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. In 2006 Lord Richard Attenborough cast McCann in his film after seeing him play Alex in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. Attenborough called Spielberg and recommended McCann. He was invited to LA to audition for 'The Pacific' HBO miniseries, Attenborough sent along scenes from his film for Spielberg to view. McCann was cast in The Pacific as R.V. Burgin. In early 2010 he filmed in Belfast for the new music-comedy Killing Bono, a film about the life of one of Bono's classmates who tries to make it in the music business, only to have his failures and frustrations magnified by the continued rise U2. McCann plays the role of Bono. He has performed on stage in Ireland and on tour. In 2011 Martin won the Irish Film and Television Award for best male performance in a feature film, the nominees in the category were fellow northern Irish man Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy and Colm Meaney. Martin has become Patron of the charity YouthAction Northern Ireland.
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Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Conor McCann
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic....
Blue Lights
Character: Stevie Neil
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers....
Vera
Character: Jack Madden
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage....
Ripper Street
Character: Michael Donovan
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a litt...
The Pacific
Character: Cpl. R.V. Burgin, Sgt. R.V. Burgin
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers....
Death and Nightingales
Character: Frank Blessing
Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago....
On the Edge
Character: Keon
Drama anthology championing new film-making talent that serves up a raw slice of real life in modern Britain....
Republic of Doyle
Character: Rory Bryne
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law....
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Character: Renquist
Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead....
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Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Character: Occi
Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to neighbours to the Church, no-one has a good word to say about either of them....
Closing the Ring
Character: Jimmy
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive....
Killing Bono
Character: Bono
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world....
Shadow Dancer
Character: Brendan
In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son....
Just Johnny
Character: Dermot
Maria, Dermot, and their son Johnny live in West Belfast. Their conventional, straightforward family life is jolted when Johnny tells his Mum that he wants to wear a dress for his upcoming First Holy Communion....
Jump
Character: Pearse Kelly
The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of Derry, Northern Ireland, in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. Johnny, a small-time crook, and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant, are both looking for a fresh start. Greta is on the verge of taking her own life and Pearse has a bounty on his head for asking difficult questions about his missing brother Eddie Kelly. As the clock ticks ...
Whole Lotta Sole
Character: Jimbo
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives....
Coward
Character: Andrew
Coward is a 28 minute film set during World War 1 that brings to light some of the brutal treatment soldiers received for suffering what would now be known as shell-shock. It follows two cousins, Andrew and James, from their home in Northern Ireland who join the British Army to fight for their Country and make their families proud. Through their eyes we see the reality of life on the front lines....
Wolf
Character: Dr. Sullivan
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic Wildcat, with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation....
X+Y
Character: Michael Ellis
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad....
'71
Character: Paul Haggerty
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast....
Boogaloo and Graham
Character: Vater
In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens....
My Boy Jack
Character: Bowe
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI....
The Survivalist
Character: Survivalist
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened....
The Rezort
Character: Lewis
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak....
Last Sentinel
Character: Baines
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point......
My Name Is Emily
Character: Swimming Teacher
Packed off to a foster home after her father is institutionalized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined....
Lost in London
Character: Paddy
Within the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison....
Maze
Character: Oscar
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II....
Hollow
Character: Marcus
Award winning director Rob Sorrenti's latest short film 'Hollow' is a sensitive observation about the nature of addiction....
Red Light
Character: Man
Having to move away due to his job, a kind man tries to convince his friend, a young prostitute, to stop working and run away with him - But all may not be as it seems....
Calibre
Character: Marcus
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident....
Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Character: Bobby Sands (voice)
By the early 1980s, after two decades of violence and unrest, the situation in Northern Ireland took a sudden and profound turn inside the infamous Maze Prison. Seeking the right to be treated as political prisoners rather than common criminals, Irish Republicans led by Bobby Sands began a prison hunger strike that would draw international attention to the conflict. In the 66 days that he refused food, Sands would be elected to the British Parliament, put the Irish Republican struggle centre sta...
The Informer
Character: Riley
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones....
Cry Rosa
Character: Mr. McNally
A music obsessed mixed-race girl questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast....
Property of the State
Character: Finbar
A woman must deal with the devastating effects of having a murderer for a brother....
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Character: Paddy
After his best friend disappears following a violent argument, a troubled marine must wrestle with his identity and guilty conscience....
Justice Dot Net
Character: Jake De Long
Jake De Long is one of the top computer programmers in the world. Hiding in an abandoned warehouse in Luxembourg, he is working on a secret website to be launched soon. As he does, he is warned that the police have discovered his whereabouts and are about to storm in. He manages to escape and fly back to Canada, where his colleague Valérie is waiting for him to get on with their life mission: the kidnapping of four very influential personalities....
Lost Lives
Character:
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
Stalker
Character: Simon
In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags....
Wildfire
Character: Sean
The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past but uncovered secrets and resentments which have been buried deep, threaten to overwhelm them....
Here Before
Character: Chris
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child....
Clash of the Titans
Character: Phaedrus
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny....
The Way of the Wind
Character: Marcellus
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ....