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Donal O'Farrell

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Known For

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan · 1998

Saving Private Ryan

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Braveheart

Braveheart · 1995

MovieActionDrama

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

MovieAdventureDrama

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Leap Year

Leap Year · 2010

MovieRomanceComedy

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.

Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane · 2007

MovieRomanceDrama

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.

The Turning

The Turning · 2020

MovieHorrorThriller

A young woman quits her teaching job to become a private tutor and governess for two wealthy young kids, but soon starts to suspect there’s more to their house than meets the eye.

Sing Street

Sing Street · 2016

MovieRomanceDrama

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Haywire

Haywire · 2011

MovieActionThriller

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Filmography

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan · 1998

Saving Private Ryan

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Stunts

Braveheart

Braveheart · 1995

MovieActionDrama

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Stunts

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

MovieAdventureDrama

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Stunts

Leap Year

Leap Year · 2010

MovieRomanceComedy

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.

Stunt Coordinator

Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane · 2007

MovieRomanceDrama

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.

Stunt Coordinator

The Turning

The Turning · 2020

MovieHorrorThriller

A young woman quits her teaching job to become a private tutor and governess for two wealthy young kids, but soon starts to suspect there’s more to their house than meets the eye.

Stunt Coordinator

Sing Street

Sing Street · 2016

MovieRomanceDrama

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Stunt Coordinator

Haywire

Haywire · 2011

MovieActionThriller

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Stunt Coordinator

Kneecap

Kneecap · 2024

MovieMusicComedy

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Stunt Coordinator

The Devil's Own

The Devil's Own · 1997

The Devil's Own

MovieCrimeThriller

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

Stunts

Byzantium

Byzantium · 2013

MovieDramaFantasy

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.

Stunt Coordinator

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

Agatha and the Truth of Murder · 2018

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

MovieDramaMystery

England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.

Stunt Coordinator

Nocebo

MovieMysteryThriller

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

Stunt Coordinator

Shadow Dancer

Shadow Dancer · 2012

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Stunt Coordinator

Isolation

Isolation · 2005

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Stunt Coordinator

Pixie

MovieComedyCrime

To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.

Stunt Coordinator

The Keeper

The Keeper · 2018

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

Stunt Coordinator

Cracks

MovieDramaMystery

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Stunt Coordinator

Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex · 1986

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Stunts

Wake Wood

Wake Wood · 2011

MovieDramaHorror

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.

Stunt Coordinator

Triage

MovieDramaThriller

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

Stunt Coordinator

The Actors

The Actors · 2003

MovieComedyCrime

During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.

Stunt Coordinator

A Shine of Rainbows

A Shine of Rainbows · 2009

A Shine of Rainbows

MovieFamilyDrama

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomás as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around - and within - us all.

Stunt Coordinator

The Delinquent Season

The Delinquent Season · 2018

The Delinquent Season

MovieDramaRomance

In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour begins to change, Yvonne seeks solace in the arms of Jim, and before long they are in the midst of an affair. When a life-changing secret is later revealed, all four are forced to re-evaluate their lives, their marriages, and their friendships - but can anything be salvaged from the wreckage?

Robert

The Tudors

The Tudors · 2007

SeriesDramaRomance

The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

Stunts

Miss Scarlet

Miss Scarlet · 2020

SeriesDramaMystery

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

Stunt Coordinator

The Fall

The Fall · 2013

SeriesDramaCrime

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.

Stunt Coordinator

The Durrells

The Durrells · 2016

SeriesDramaComedy

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Stunt Coordinator

Love/Hate

Love/Hate · 2010

SeriesCrimeDrama

Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.

Stunt Coordinator

Hope Street

Hope Street · 2021

SeriesDramaCrime

The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting.

Stunt Coordinator

Titanic: Blood and Steel

Titanic: Blood and Steel · 2012

Titanic: Blood and Steel

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.

Stunt Coordinator

Bloodlands

Bloodlands · 2021

SeriesCrimeDrama

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

Stunt Coordinator

Malpractice

Malpractice · 2023

Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr Leo Harris, Edith’s grieving father Sir Anthony Owusu, demands an enquiry into Lucinda’s actions on the fateful night.

Stunt Coordinator

Quirke

SeriesMysteryDrama

Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.

Stunt Coordinator

The Woman in White

The Woman in White · 2018

The Woman in White

SeriesDramaMystery

The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.

Stunt Coordinator

The Drowning

The Drowning · 2021

Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.

Stunt Coordinator