Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea is an Irish actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his career as a member of Dublin's Focus Theatre, and played many roles on the stage and on Irish television. He came to the attention of international film audiences in Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan's 1992 film The Crying Game, and subsequently starred in many more of Jordan's films, including Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and Greta (2018). He also played a starring role in the Hugo Blick 2011 TV series The Shadow Line.
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🎬 Movies
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
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2026
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
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2026
The Miracle Club
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2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
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2022
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
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2019
Lost Lives
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2019
Greta
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2019
Black '47
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2018
Out of the Dark
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2014
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
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2012
Underworld: Awakening
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2012
Blackthorn
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2011
Roadkill
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2011
The Heavy
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2010
Ondine
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2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
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2010
Nothing Personal
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2009
Spy(ies)
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2009
Stuck
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2007
The Reaping
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2007
Celebration
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2007
Until Death
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2007
Sisters
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2006
Sixty Six
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2006
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
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2006
V for Vendetta
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2006
Breakfast on Pluto
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2005
River Queen
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2005
Tara Road
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2005
Control
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2004
The Halo Effect
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2004
Proud
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2004
The I Inside
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2004
The Good Shepherd
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2004
Evelyn
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2002
Copenhagen
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2002
FearDotCom
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2002
On the Edge
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2001
The Musketeer
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2001
The End of the Affair
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1999
Guinevere
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1999
In Dreams
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1999
Still Crazy
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1998
The Butcher Boy
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1998
Sink Or Swim
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1997
Double Tap
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1997
Fever Pitch
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1997
A Further Gesture
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1997
A Further Gesture
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1997
The Last of the High Kings
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1996
Michael Collins
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1996
Crime of the Century
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1996
Lumière & Company
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1995
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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1995
Citizen X
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1995
Prêt-à-Porter
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1994
Interview with the Vampire
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1994
Princess Caraboo
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1994
Angie
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1994
Hedda Gabler
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1993
The Crying Game
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1992
Life Is Sweet
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1991
The Doctor and the Devils
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1985
The Company of Wolves
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1984
Joyce in June
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1982
Thank You, Comrades
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1978
The Seagull
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1978
The Moonstone
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1972
📺 TV Shows
Prime Target
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2025
Flesh and Blood
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2020
Harlan Coben's The Stranger
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2020
War & Peace
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2016
Dickensian
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2015
The Honourable Woman
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2014
The Shadow Line
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2011
Father & Son
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2010
Armadillo
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2001
Not with a Bang
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1990
I Didn't Know You Cared
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1975