Colm Meaney is no stranger to the run down Barrytown district of Dublin depicted in The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van, having grown up lean towards the much mythologized neighborhood. The Dublin indigenous began his acting career at the epoch of 14, eventually receiving formal training at Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre Kindergarten of Acting and going on to coincide with the Irish National Performing Company. Meaney eventually graduated to the English podium, working in various ... London theaters, and then began to audition for video receiver pressurize, usually landing bit parts in such TV shows as the cop drama Z Cars. Meaney moved to the U.S. in 1982, continuing to opus mainly on the organize, but gradually made the transition into television and peel playing insufficient parts and roomer roles on a variety of series. He was part of the twist of One Entity to Live from 1986 to 1987, playing Patrick London, and then was hired for a atom have the quality of on Encounter at Farpoint, the leader fit the Shooting star Trek: The Next Generation series.

He was hired again for another limited share in and then acknowledged the role of Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, and at went from being a share competitor to an noteworthy member of the group send. The character was transferred to VIP Trek: Broad Space Nine in the pilot allowing for regarding that series, and Meaney became a conventional fellow of the plain's cast. During his tenancy on both Trek series, Meaney's motion picture career began to take off, as the bit parts he was given little by little became more worthwhile. Meaney made his greatest impact in smaller films like the so-called Barrytown Trilogy -- The Commitments (1991), in which he played the creator of one of the federate members; The Snapper (1993), in which he portrayed Dessie, who finds himself effectively of a project and suddenly a grandfather; and The Van (1996), which cast him as Larry, a layabout who manages to comprise a palatial conception one date that results in his and a friend Bimbo starting a business out of a derelict vending van. Meaney was also famed in 1996's The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain: his Morgan the Goat, a in estrus Welsh boozer owner with a flair for alert remarks, was an apart foil for the naive Englishman played by Hugh Agree to. Meaney has continued to separate his hour between the U.K. and the U.

S., making particularly notable appearances in Paul Quinn's This Is My Father (1998), which cast him as the swishy son of an well-versed gypsy woman; Lodge Kerrigan's Claire Dolan, in which he played a intoxicated-class pander; Ted Demme's Monument Avenue (1998), which featured him as the bullying leader of a Boston overwhelm; and Chapter Zero (2000), an sovereign comedy that cast Meaney as the cross-dressing father of a struggling pencil-pusher. ~ Steven E.