Stephen Rea
Acting
Biography
Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
As actor 152
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Saturday Night Live
1975
Play for Today
1970
Tony Awards
1956
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Screen Two
1985
Minder
1979
V for Vendetta
2006
The Professionals
1977
The Oscars
1953
Interview with the Vampire
1994
Performance
1991
Counterpart
2017
Boon
1986
War and Peace
2016
Prime Target
2025
The Stranger
2020
Thriller
1973
Utopia
2013
Greta
2019
Underworld: Awakening
2012
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
A Scare at Bedtime
1997
The Reaping
2007
The English
2022
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
Dickensian
2015
Black '47
2018
Citizen X
1995
FearDotCom
2002
The Crying Game
1992
The Musketeer
2001
The Moonstone
1972
The Hollywood Greats
1977
4 Play
1989
The Shadow Line
2011
The I Inside
2004
The Honourable Woman
2014
Michael Collins
1996
The End of the Affair
1999
Control
2004
Until Death
2007
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
2012
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
The Company of Wolves
1984
Double Tap
1997
10 Days to War
2008
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
In Dreams
1999
I Didn't Know You Cared
1975
River Queen
2005
Still Crazy
1998
The Miracle Club
2023
Fever Pitch
1997
Lumière & Company
1995
Life Is Sweet
1991
Blackthorn
2011
Endgame
1989
On the Edge
2001
Ondine
2010
Out of the Dark
2014
Days of Hope
1975
Princess Caraboo
1994
Flesh and Blood
2020
Lost Lives
2019
Stuck
2007
The Heavy
2010
Sixty Six
2006
Angie
1994
Evelyn
2002
Disclosure
2020
Sink Or Swim
1997
The Good Shepherd
2004
Stage 2
1971
Nothing Personal
2009
The Butcher Boy
1998
Kisses
2008
Sadie
2021
Guinevere
1999
Hard Border
2018
Tara Road
2005
Father & Son
2009
Stella Days
2012
V for Vendetta: Unmasked
2006
Caleb Williams
1980
Nightride
2022
Crime of the Century
1996
Heidi 4 Paws
2008
Cry of the Banshee
1970
Proud
2004
Thanksgiving
2019
Roadkill
2011
The Curse of Styria
2014
The Last of the High Kings
1996
The Life Before This
1999
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch
2015
Listen
Asylum
2013
Caleb Williams
1980
Copenhagen
2002
This Is My Father
1999
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
2026
Sisters
2006
The House
1984
A Further Gesture
1997
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
2025
Not with a Bang
1990
Tasting Menu
2013
Thank You, Comrades
1978
The Halo Effect
2004
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022
Shadow of a Gunman
1995
Spy(ies)
2009
Trojan Eddie
1996
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
2026
The Devil's Mercy
2008
Hedda Gabler
1993
Loose Connections
1984
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
Snow in August
2001
A Place Called Ardoyne
1973
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
2019
All Men Are Mortal
1995
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1995
Bad Behavior
1993
Secrets from Putumayo
2020
Scout
1987
Early Struggles
1976
In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
2000
Joyce in June
1982
The Body Is Water
Professional Foul
1977
Angel
1982
Chekhov in Derry
1983
Bloom
2004
The Seagull
1978
Celebration
2007
Four Days in July
1984
K Is for Killing
1974
Fugitive
1974
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
1996
Cyprus Avenue
2019
Shergar
1986
I Could Read the Sky
1999
The Out of Town Boys
1979
Visitation
The King's Wake
2000
Fluent Dysphasia
2004
Unquiet Graves
2018