Acting

Michael Smiley

Born January 29, 1963 · Belfast, Ireland (age 63)

Michael Smiley (born 1963) is a Northern Irish comedian and actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Kill List (2011) and The Lobster (2015).

Known For

The Nun

The Nun · 2018

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead · 2004

Shaun of the Dead

MovieHorrorComedy

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

The Lobster

The Lobster · 2015

MovieComedyDrama

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer · 2006

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

MovieCrimeFantasy

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

MovieActionAdventure

A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

The World's End

The World's End · 2013

The World's End

MovieComedyAction

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever · 2017

MovieDramaRomance

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl · 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl

MovieDramaRomance

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

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The Nun

The Nun · 2018

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

Father Pasquale

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead · 2004

Shaun of the Dead

MovieHorrorComedy

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

Bicycle Courier Zombie (uncredited)

The Lobster

The Lobster · 2015

MovieComedyDrama

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

Loner Swimmer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer · 2006

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

MovieCrimeFantasy

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

Porter

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

MovieActionAdventure

A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

Dr. Evazan

The World's End

The World's End · 2013

The World's End

MovieComedyAction

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Reverend Green

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever · 2017

MovieDramaRomance

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

Pieter

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl · 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl

MovieDramaRomance

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Physician

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake · 2021

Gunpowder Milkshake

MovieActionCrime

To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

Dr. Ricky

Black Sea

Black Sea · 2014

MovieAdventureDrama

A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

Reynolds

Grindhouse

Grindhouse · 2007

MovieThrillerAction

Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.

(segment "Don't") (uncredited)

Free Fire

Free Fire · 2017

MovieActionCrime

Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

Frank

Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare · 2010

MovieComedyThriller

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Patterson

The ABCs of Death

The ABCs of Death · 2013

The ABCs of Death

An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

Father Tom (U is for Unearthed)

Come to Daddy

Come to Daddy · 2019

MovieComedyHorror

After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.

Jethro

The Hallow

The Hallow · 2015

MovieHorrorFantasy

Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.

Garda Davey

The Silent Twins

The Silent Twins · 2022

The Silent Twins

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

Tim Thomas

Madame

MovieRomanceComedy

Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.

David Reville

Kill List

Kill List · 2011

MovieHorrorThriller

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Gal

Bookworm

Bookworm · 2024

MovieAdventureFamily

Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

Arnold

Censor

MovieHorrorMystery

A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.

Doug Smart

A Field in England

A Field in England · 2013

A Field in England

MovieHorrorThriller

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

O'Neil

Land of the Blind

Land of the Blind · 2006

Land of the Blind

MovieDramaThriller

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

Thorne's Lieutenant

Skintown

Skintown · 2026

MovieComedyDrama

1994. As Northern Ireland takes its first steps towards peace, best friends Vinny and Jonty are about to jump start their futures with the most reckless trip of their lives.

Tony ‘Pepperoni’ Reagan

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 2005

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Colonel Morgan Blue

Black Mirror

Black Mirror · 2011

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Baxter

Hustle

SeriesComedyCrime

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Max

Ripper Street

Ripper Street · 2012

SeriesDramaMystery

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

George Lusk

Alien: Earth

Alien: Earth · 2025

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

Shmuel

Blue Lights

Blue Lights · 2023

SeriesCrimeDrama

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

Paul 'Colly' Collins

Luther

SeriesCrimeDrama

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

Benny Silver

Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters · 2022

SeriesDramaCrime

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

Roger Muldoon

Utopia

SeriesMysteryDrama

The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

Detective Inspector Joshua Reynolds

Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood · 2002

Wire in the Blood

SeriesCrimeDrama

Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

Dr Liam Kerwin

Rose and Maloney

Rose and Maloney · 2002

Rose and Maloney

SeriesCrimeDrama

Investigators Rose Linden and Marion Maloney, of the Criminal Justice Review Agency, take on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to reopen old cases.

DS Mallam

Spaced

Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.

Tyres O'Flaherty

Bloodlands

Bloodlands · 2021

SeriesCrimeDrama

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

Dinger

Obituary

Obituary · 2023

SeriesComedyCrime

When Elvira’s editor informs her that she will be paid per article, she begins murdering people to avoid going broke. Her plans are shaken when she falls for the crime reporter.

Ward Clancy

Ragdoll

Ragdoll · 2021

SeriesMysteryCrime

Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.

DS Finlay

The Aliens

The Aliens · 2016

SeriesComedyDrama

Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.

Antoine

ShakespeaRe-Told

ShakespeaRe-Told · 2005

ShakespeaRe-Told

Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.

Peter

The Curse

The Curse · 2022

SeriesComedyCrime

In 1980s East London, a gang of hopeless crooks become embroiled in a major gold heist.

Ronnie Gatlin

Dead Still

Dead Still · 2020

SeriesMysteryComedy

Memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly.

Brock Blennerhasset

Ambassadors

Ambassadors · 2013

Comedy-drama series set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan where newly arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies is set the task of trying to secure a £2 billion helicopter contract for the United Kingdom.

Jackson

Death and Nightingales

Death and Nightingales · 2018

Death and Nightingales

Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago.

Dummy McGonnell

Father Figure

Father Figure · 2013

SeriesFamilyComedy

Father Figure is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 September 2013. In Ireland the series first aired on RTÉ Two in September 2013. The six-part series was written by Jason Byrne and directed by Nick Wood.

Roddy

Murder

Three different deaths. Three unique stories. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?

Whitmore Harris

Edge of Heaven

Edge of Heaven · 2014

Edge of Heaven is a British sitcom centred around a 1980s-themed guest house in Margate. The show is produced by Hartswood Films for ITV and began airing on 21 February 2014 for six episodes. In March and April it was repeated on Thursday nights. The first episode featured Margate’s beach, shops and landmarks and attracted 12.5% of the UK TV audience despite mixed reviews.

Snowy