Karl Shiels

Acting

Karl Shiels

Born September 15, 1971 · Dublin, Ireland

Died July 15, 2019 · aged 47

Karl Shiels (15 September 1971 – 15 July 2019) was an Irish actor of both stage and screen. His stage roles included Henry IV, Part 1, Penelope, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shadow of a Gunman and This Lime Tree Bower. His screen roles included Fair City, Peaky Blinders and Batman Begins.

Known For

Batman BeginsBatman Begins · 2005
Batman Begins
7.72005
MovieDramaCrime
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
HaywireHaywire · 2011
Haywire
5.72011
MovieActionThriller
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Veronica GuerinVeronica Guerin · 2003
Veronica Guerin
6.72003
MovieDramaCrime
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Shadow DancerShadow Dancer · 2012
Shadow Dancer
6.02012
MovieThriller
In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
IntermissionIntermission · 2003
Intermission
6.22003
MovieComedyCrime
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
StitchesStitches · 2012
Stitches
6.22012
MovieHorror
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
NobleNoble · 2014
Noble
6.42014
MovieDrama
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
MysticsMystics · 2003
Mystics
5.52003
MovieComedy
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

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