Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award
The prolific actor — best known for playing Miles O'Brien in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" — will receive the honor at the IFTA awards on Feb. 14
Congratulations! He represents two things I love very much ... Star Trek and Ireland. He is also someone that represents a generation as we've seen him and grown familiar with him through so many appearances in TV and movies over the years.
His imdb page is suprisingly prolific https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/ 151 roles since 1973 is a pretty damn good run.
I loved him in Layer Cake where he plays the opposite of Miles O'Brien.
The first thing I ever saw him in was “Intermission”, so you can imagine my shock upon discovering him on Trek a couple years ago.
That was such a good movie. I must give it a rewatch.
First time I saw him outside Star Trek was in a Scarlett O'Hara TV miniseries.
Imagine my surprise when he's driving her around in a horse and buggy: an olde time transporter chief!
I first saw him in Hell on Wheels.
i was so excited he was set as charlies dad in sunny. it was perfect
The cheese mongrel
My favourite role of his (outside of Trek) is as the Elvis-loving dad in The Commitments.
More than deserved!
It’s about time!
Call him ‘Daddy’. Everyone calls him Daddy.
'Thank you, thank you. As you know I've suffered for my art'
Really liked him in Hell on Wheels. Surprisingly believable as Thomas Durant.
This was my introduction to him!
Oh no! You can’t break the laws of physics; O’Brien MUST suffer! Take it away before the universe suffers a subspace quasar tachyon inversion burst collapse to the hull or something. 😉
