Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctorate · 2019
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 1995
- Theatre World Award · 1993
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1993 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1993 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Endgame
Unquiet Graves
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Utopia
V for Vendetta
Disclosure
The Shadow Line
The Professionals
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Counterpart
War & Peace
Dickensian
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
The English
The Honorable Woman
The Stranger
Breakfast on Pluto
Snow in August
Citizen X
Kisses
Life Is Sweet
Prime Target
Michael Collins
Saturday Night Live
Thriller
Still Crazy
The Butcher Boy
The Crying Game
Greta
Black '47
Blackthorn
On the Edge
The End of the Affair
Four Days in July
Fever Pitch
Stella Days
Ondine
Evelyn
The Miracle Club
Underworld: Awakening
The Company of Wolves
Stuck
Control
Flesh and Blood
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
Until Death
The I Inside
The Reaping
Guinevere
This Is My Father