Stephen Rea

31 October, 1946

| 1.79 m

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Biography

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Belfast High School and the Queen's University, where he studied English. He later trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with the talented Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney. After several stage, television and film appearances, he came to international success with his performance in Gra pozorów (1992). He was nominated an Oscar for Best Actor.

Movies

A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.

A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.

A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.

Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.

The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.

Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

Fame, fortune and fornication drove the British rock band in the '70s until a divine end. 20 years later, Strange Fruit reunites and goes on a tour with ups and downs on the continent.

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holl... Read all