Stephen Rea: Select Film and Stage Credits

Born: October 31, 1949 in Belfast, Ireland

Education: BA in English from Queens University (Belfast)

Theater and Film credits:

Abbey Theater, Dublin in late 1960s

Involved in English "fringe" theater and the English National Theater in the 1970s

Started Field Day Theatre with Brian Friel in 1980

First film role: Danny in Neil Jordan's Angel (released in the US as Danny Boy) in 1982

Roles in other Neil Jordan films: The Company of Wolves (1984), The Crying Game (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), In Dreams (1999), End of the Affair (1999)

Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (for role in Jordan's The Crying Game)

Awarded Best Actor by the National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (for The Crying Game)

Other films: Loose Connections (1983); The Doctor and the Devils (1985); Life is Sweet (1990); Bad Behaviour (1993); Princess Caraboo, Ready to Wear, and Angie (1994); Trojan Eddie and Further Gesture (1996); Crime of the Century (1997); Still Crazy (1998); Guinevere (1999), The Muscateer (2001)

Awarded the prize for Best Actor by the Catalonian International Film Festival (Sitges, Spain) for his role in Citizen X (1995)

Royal Court Theater: "Ashes to Ashes," 1996 (written and directed by Harold Pinter); "Crete and Sergeant Pepper," "Freedom of the City," "Endgame," "Doublecross," "Captain Oates Left Sock," "Geography of a Horse Dreamer," "Action"

Royal National Theater: "The Playboy of the Western World," "Comedians," "Tales of the Vienna Woods," "Strawberry Fields II," "Compiello," "The Shaughraun," "Making History," "Piano"

Booth Theater: "Someone Who'll Watch over Me," (1992, written by Frank McGuinness)

"Tony" Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play (for role in "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" 1993)

Hampstead Theater: "Ecstasy," "Drums in the Night" (written by Bertold Brecht), "Buried Child," "Translations," "Killer's Head," "St. Oscar," "Kingdom of Earth"

Gate Theater, Dublin (1991 Beckett Festival), "Act Without Words II," "Play," "That Time," "A Piece of Monologue"

Directed Stewart Parker's "Northern Star" at the First Presbyterian Church, Belfast (1998)

Directed Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (1999)