Colm Meaney, the Irish actor maybe finest recognized for taking part in Miles O’Brien throughout all seven seasons of “Star Trek: Deep House 9” however with a wealth of different main movie and TV credit to his identify, is about to be honored with the Irish Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
Offered on the Irish Movie & Tv Academy (IFTA) awards on Feb. 14, the honour will rejoice a profession spanning 5 a long time that has seen Meaney work with a number of the world’s most famed filmmakers and actors.
“To say I used to be stunned once I received the information that IFTA wished to present me this award, could be an understatement. I used to be actually shocked,” mentioned Meaney. “To be requested to hitch this lengthy listing of very illustrious earlier recipients is a big honour, and I’m thrilled and searching ahead to a great evening in Dublin.”
Movie credit on Meaney’s resume embrace all three movies in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy within the Nineties: “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The Van,” touchdown a Golden Globe nomination for “The Snapper”. Since then, different roles have included: “Intermission,” “The Useless,” “The Final of the Mohicans,” “Con Air,” “Layer Cake,” “Underneath Siege,” “Far and Away,” “Marlowe,” “Tolkien,” “Seberg,” “The Damned United,” “The Banker,” “Die Onerous 2,” “Kings,” “The Journey” and “How Harry Grew to become a Tree” (which gained him his first IFTA award in 2002). Most just lately he starred in “Within the Land of Saints and Sinners” reverse Liam Neeson and Kerry Condon and “Deliver Them Down” with Barry Keoghan, and can quickly be seen in Jim Sheridan’s “Re-creation.”
On the TV facet, alongside “Star Trek: Deep House 9,” Meaney appeared as an everyday in AMC’s “Hell on Wheels” and was extra just lately seen in “Gangs of London,” “It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia” and “The Serpent Queen.”
“Colm is considered one of Eire’s most beloved and versatile actors, with a one-of-a-kind heat and roguish persona and wit that has endeared him to audiences proper throughout the globe,” mentioned IFTA CEO Áine Moriarty. “His illustrious display screen and stage profession has proven him to be such a skillful and nuanced actor in addition to a perfectly humorous main man. Regardless of his worldwide success, Colm has at all times been an unflinching supporter of home-grown Irish initiatives and expertise coming by means of. The Irish Academy is honoured to pay tribute to Colm’s achievements, and his exceptional profession.”
The 2025 IFTA Nominations can be introduced Jan. 14.