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Robert "Con" O'Neill (born 15 August 1966) is an English actor. He started his acting career at the Everyman Theatre and became primarily known for his performances in musicals. He received critical acclaim and won a Laurence Olivier Award for playing Michael "Mickey" Johnstone in the musical Blood Brothers. Subsequently, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for the same role. He has also appeared in many films and television series.

Con O'Neill
Born	Robert O'Neill (1966-08-15) 15 August 1966 (age 56) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present

Early life

O'Neill was born on 15 August 1966 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Career

O'Neill trained at the Elliott-Clarke College in Liverpool and began his acting career at Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre.[1]

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1988 for his performance in Willy Russell's Blood Brothers,[2] and was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Blood Brothers.[3]

In the 1980s, he had a walk-on role in One Summer as Jackson. He starred in Dancin' Thru the Dark, the 1990 film adaptation of Willy Russell's Stags and Hens.[4] In 1992, he played Cougar Glass in the world premiere of Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock in the Universe. He appeared in Moving Story (1994), a TV comedy drama, as Nick, part of a removals team. He appeared as wheelchair user P.C. Ian LeFebre in "The Mild Bunch", the second season's eighth episode of Pie in the Sky (1995). He had a supporting role in Cider with Rosie (1998). In 2003, he portrayed Mickey in The Illustrated Mum. In 2006, he starred as Aston in a tour of Sheffield theatres' production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.[5] In 1999, he starred in The Last Seduction II.

In 2008, he appeared in Criminal Justice a five-part TV drama on the BBC, playing the part of Ralph Stone, a solicitor. He played the part of Joe Meek in both the 2008 film[6] and 2005 play[7] of Telstar: The Joe Meek Story. In 2011, he took the role of dock worker Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (from 18 May to 25 June 2011).[8] This portrayal won the 2011 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor.[9][10] In 2012, he played Dr. Bob Massey in "Fearful Symmetry", S6:E3 of Lewis.

He played St. Paul in the 2013 mini-series The Bible.[11] The same year he also appeared in Life of Crime as DCI Ferguson and in Midsomer Murders "Schooled in Murder" as Jim Caxton. He portrays Val Pearson in the sitcom Uncle (2014 to 2017).[12] He played Cliff in Cucumber, an eight-part TV drama series.[13] In 2015, he starred in the 35th-anniversary staging of Willy Russell's Educating Rita at The Liverpool Playhouse.[14][15] He appears as Neil Ackroyd in the second series of Happy Valley. In 2016, O'Neill played the part of Joe Brierley in the second series of Ordinary Lies and appeared in two episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off Class. In the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl he portrayed the plant director Viktor Bryukhanov. In 2022, he appeared in the HBO series Our Flag Means Death as the pirate Israel Hands (Izzy).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Dancin' Thru the Dark	Peter McGeghan
1995	Scarborough Ahoy!	Michael	Short film
1995	Three Steps To Heaven	Angel Farnham
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Terry
1999	The Last Seduction II	Troy Fenton
2001	Persephone's Playground	Father	Short film
2008	Telstar: The Joe Meek Story	Joe Meek
2022	The Batman	Chief Mackenzie Bock
TBA	The Way of the Wind	Enoch	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	The Bill	Ricky Denball	Episode: "The Mugging and the Gypsies"
1995	Pie in the Sky	PC Ian LeFebre	Episode: "The Mild Bunch"
1997	Heartbeat	Rex	Episode: “The Queen’s Message”
1999	Always and Everyone	Kenny Fletcher	Series 1
2008	Criminal Justice	Ralph Stone	Series 1
2012	Lewis	Dr. Bob Massey	Episode: "Fearful Symmetry"
2013	Midsomer Murders	Jim Caxton	Episode: "Schooled in Murder"
2013	Life of Crime	DCI Ferguson	3 episodes
2014–2017	Uncle	Val	11 episodes
2015	Cucumber	Cliff
2016-2022	Happy Valley	Neil Ackroyd	Series 2 and 3
2016	The Tunnel	Neil Grey	3 episodes
2016	Class	Huw MacLean	Episodes: "Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "Brave-ish Heart"
2017-2019	Harlots	Nathaniel Lennox	Series 1
2019	Chernobyl	Viktor Bryukhanov	3 episodes Television miniseries
2019	Queens of Mystery	Len Savage	2 episodes "Death by Vinyl"
2019	Wild Bill (TV series)	Ray Gilchrist	Episode 4
2022	Our Flag Means Death	Izzy Hands	Main role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Dark Souls II	Titchy Gren (voice)
2022	Elden Ring	Mohg (voice)

References

External links

• Con O'Neill on Facebook
• Con O'Neill on Twitter
• Con O'Neill at IMDb 
• Con O'Neill at AllMusic
• Con O'Neill discography at Discogs
• Con O'Neill at AllMovie
• Con O'Neill at the Internet Broadway Database
• "I Love Love You (song)". YouTube (Official excerpt from Uncle Episode 3). Baby Cow Productions. 6 February 2014.

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