Stephen Rea

Known for: Acting
Born: October 31, 1946, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Movies: 116

Stephen Rea (born October 31, 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.

Upcoming Stephen Rea Movies

Visitation

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.9

V for Vendetta

2006

7.4

Interview with the Vampire

1994

6.3

Underworld: Awakening

2012

6.5

Greta

2019

5.8

The Reaping

2007

6.8

The Crying Game

1992

6.9

Michael Collins

1996

7.2

Breakfast on Pluto

2005

3.9

FearDotCom

2002

6.3

The Company of Wolves

1984

Filmography

2026	You'll Never Believe Who's Dead	Charlie Bann
2026	Listen	Dinny
2026	The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones	Matsuo Bashō (English)
2025	Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now	Self
2023	The Miracle Club	Frank Dunne
2022	The Ghost of Richard Harris	Self
2022	Nightride	Joe (voice)
2022	Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman	Self
2021	Sadie	Self - Lyric Theatre
2020	Secrets from Putumayo	Narrator (voice)
2020	Disclosure	Fergus (archive footage)
2019	Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett	Self
2019	Lost Lives	Self (voice)
2019	Cyprus Avenue	Eric Miller
2019	Greta	Brian Cody
2018	Black '47	Conneely
2018	Unquiet Graves	Narrator
2018	Hard Border	Self
2015	Ruby Strangelove Young Witch	Danforth
2014	Out of the Dark	Jordan
2014	The Curse of Styria	Dr. Hill
2013	Asylum	McGahey
2013	Tasting Menu	Walter
2012	Werewolf: The Beast Among Us	Doc
2012	Stella Days	Brendan
2012	Underworld: Awakening	Dr. Jacob Lane
2011	Blackthorn	Mackinley
2011	Roadkill	Seamus
2010	The Heavy	Anawalt
2010	Ondine	Priest
2010	Harold Pinter: A Celebration	Self
2009	Nothing Personal	Martin
2009	Spy(ies)	M. Palmer
2008	Heidi 4 Paws	Doctor (voice)
2008	Kisses	Down Under Dylan (uncredited)
2008	The Devil's Mercy	Tyler
2007	Stuck	Tom Bardo
2007	The Reaping	Father Costigan
2007	Celebration	Waiter
2007	Until Death	Gabriel Callaghan
2006	Sisters	Dr. Philip Lacan
2006	Sixty Six	Dr. Barrie
2006	V for Vendetta: Unmasked	Finch
2006	V for Vendetta	Finch
2005	Breakfast on Pluto	Bertie
2005	River Queen	Francis
2005	Tara Road	Colm
2004	Control	Dr. Arlo Penner
2004	The Halo Effect	Fatso
2004	Fluent Dysphasia	Murph
2004	Proud	Barney Garvey
2004	Bloom	Leopold Bloom
2004	The Good Shepherd	McCaran
2004	The I Inside	Doctor Newman
2004	The End of the Affair: "Making of"
2002	Evelyn	Michael Beattie
2002	Copenhagen	Niels Bohr
2002	FearDotCom	Alistair
2001	On the Edge	Dr. Figure
2001	The Musketeer	Cardinal Richelieu
2001	Snow in August	Rabbi Judah Hirsch
2000	In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire	Self
2000	The King's Wake	King Conor
1999	The End of the Affair	Henry Miles
1999	The Life Before This	Brian
1999	Guinevere	Connie Fitzpatrick
1999	I Could Read the Sky	P.J.
1999	This Is My Father	Mission Priest
1999	In Dreams	Doctor Silverman
1998	Still Crazy	Tony Costello
1998	The Butcher Boy	Da Brady
1997	Sink Or Swim	Brian
1997	Double Tap	Cypher
1997	Fever Pitch	Ray, the Governor
1997	A Further Gesture	Sean Dowd
1996	The Last of the High Kings	Cab Driver
1996	Michael Collins	Ned Broy
1996	Crime of the Century	Bruno Richard Hauptmann
1996	Trojan Eddie	Trojan Eddie
1996	Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told	Voice
1995	Lumière & Company	(segment "John Boorman")
1995	All Men Are Mortal	Fosca
1995	Shadow of a Gunman	Seamus Shields
1995	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	Nikos
1995	Citizen X	Lt. Viktor Burakov
1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Milo O'Brannigan
1994	Interview with the Vampire	Santiago
1994	Princess Caraboo	Gutch
1994	Angie	Noel Riordan
1993	Bad Behavior	Gerry McAllister
1993	Hedda Gabler	Eilert Lovborg
1992	The Crying Game	Fergus
1991	Life Is Sweet	Patsy
1989	Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989	Endgame	Clov
1987	Scout	Marshall
1986	Shergar	Frankie
1985	The Doctor and the Devils	Timothy Broom
1984	Four Days in July	Dixie McConville
1984	The House	The Soldier
1984	The Company of Wolves	Young Groom
1984	Loose Connections	Harry
1983	Chekhov in Derry	Self
1982	Joyce in June	Stanislaus Joyce / McIntosh
1982	Angel	Danny
1980	Caleb Williams	Tyrell
1979	The Out of Town Boys	Shay
1978	Thank You, Comrades	Mayakovsky
1978	On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978	The Seagull	Constantin
1977	Professional Foul	Hollar
1976	Early Struggles	Chas
1974	Fugitive	Peter
1974	K Is for Killing	Arden Buckley
1973	A Place Called Ardoyne	Narrator (voice)
1970	Cry of the Banshee	Villager

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