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John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Sliding Doors (1998). He has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

John Lynch
Born	(1961-12-26) 26 December 1961 (age 60) Northern Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Actor, novelist
Spouse	Mary McGuckian ​ ​ (m. 1997; sep. 2008)​
Partner	Christine

Early life

Lynch was born in Northern Ireland to an Irish father, Fin Lynch, and an Italian mother, Rosina Pavone, better known as Rose.[1][2][3] He was raised as a Catholic.[1] His parents met in London, where his mother was a teacher.[4] In 1968, when he was seven years old, he moved with his family to the townland of Corrinshego, where his father was from, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Corrinshego, where he spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years, is on the western outskirts of Newry.[1][5][4] Lynch later attended St. Colman's College in Newry. He began acting in Irish language plays at school during the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. He is the eldest of the five children of his parents, his Italian mother being from Trivento, a town in the Province of Campobasso in Molise, Southern Italy.[2][3] His younger sister Susan and his nephew Thomas Finnegan are also actors.[3]

Career

Lynch has appeared in numerous films related to Northern Ireland's problems such as Cal (1984) with Helen Mirren,[5] In the Name of the Father (1993) with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Railway Station Man (1992) with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Nothing Personal and Some Mother's Son (1996), also with Mirren, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn (2002).[6]

He starred as a supporting actor in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), as Lord Craven in Agnieska Holland's film of The Secret Garden (1993), as Tadhg in The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), and as Gerry in Sliding Doors (1998).[6]

Lynch played the part of football legend George Best in the 2000 film Best. He played the lead in the Australian feature Angel Baby, winning the Australian Film Institute award for best leading actor and the Australian Film Critics award for best actor of 1995. He was nominated for a Satellite Film Award for the film Moll Flanders in 1996. He worked with acclaimed Belgian director Marion Hansel on her adaptation of Booker-nominated author Damon Galgut's novel, The Quarry (also known as La Faille; 1998),[5] which won Best Film at the Montreal Film Festival. He won Best Actor for the lead role in Best at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival in 2000. He wrote and co-produced the film.[5]

He was nominated for a BAFTA for Cal, as well as for an IFTA for his role in The Baby War. He starred in Five Day Shelter as Stephen, which won a European Film Award and was in competition at the Rome Film Festival. He played the lead in Craig Vivieros' first feature film, the prison drama Ghosted. He played the role of Wollfstan in Black Death, and appeared in the 2012 film version of Michael Morpurgo's novel, Private Peaceful.[6]

Lynch is also a novelist. His first novel, Torn Water, was published in November 2005 by 4th Estate, a literary imprint of HarperCollins, and his second, Falling Out of Heaven, was published on 13 May 2010 by the same publisher.[5]

Personal life

Lynch married film-maker Mary McGuckian in 1997, having met her on the set of Words Upon the Window Pane a few years earlier.[4] They separated in 2008. He now lives in Nice in the south of France with his current partner, Christine, who is French.[1][3]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Cal	Cal
1990	Hardware	Shades
	1871	O'Brien
	Making Out	Gavin	TV episode
1991	All Good Things	Vincent Gibney	TV
	Chimera	Peter Carson	TV
	Edward II	Spencer
1992	The Railway Station Man	Damian Sweeney
1993	The Secret Garden	Lord Craven
	Peak Practice	Father Davey	TV episode "Impulsive Behavior"
	In the Name of the Father	Paul Hill
1994	Words Upon the Window Pane	John Corbet
	The Secret of Roan Inish	Tadgh
	Princess Caraboo	Amon McCarthy
1995	Angel Baby	Harry
	Nothing Personal	Liam
1996	Some Mother's Son	Bobby Sands
	Moll Flanders	Jonathan (the Artist)	nominated Best Supporting Actor - Satellite Awards
1997	This Is the Sea	Padhar McAliskey
1998	Sliding Doors	Gerry
1999	Best	"George Best"
2002	Boston Public	Jerry	TV episode "Chapter Thirty-One"
	Puckoon	O'Brien
	Evelyn	Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
2003	Conspiracy of Silence	Father Matthew Francis
	Alien Hunter	Dr. Michael Straub
2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Captain Alvarado
2005	Isolation	Dan
	Bleak House	Nemo	TV
	Lassie	Sam Carraclough
2007	The Yellow House	Paul Gauguin	TV
	In Transit	Yakov
2008	The Passion	Sagan	TV series
2009, 2012	Merlin	Balinor	TV series
2009	Silent Witness	Tom Flannery	TV series
	Holy Water
2010	Black Death	Wolfstan
	The Nativity	The Archangel Gabriel	[7]
2011	The Jury	Alan Lane	TV series
	The Hot Potato	Bill and Ben
	Ghosted
2012	Labyrinth	Simon de Montfort	TV miniseries
	Private Peaceful	Sergeant Hanley
2013	Möbius	Joshua
2013–2016	The Fall	Assistant Chief Constable Jim Burns
2014	The Musketeers	Luca Sestini
	The Hybrid	Powell	[8]
2014	Shetland	Frank Blake	TV series
2016	One of Us	Bill Douglas
2017	Number One	Gary Adams
2018	Paul, Apostle of Christ	Aquila
2018	The Terror	John Bridgens	TV series
2019	Tin Star	Pastor Johan Nickel	TV series
2019	Harlots	Jonas Young	TV series
2019	Medici	Pope Sixtus IV	TV series
2020	The Head	Arthur Wilde	TV series
2020	Boys from County Hell	George Bogue
2021	The Banishing	Malachi

References

External links

• John Lynch at IMDb

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[de] John Lynch (Schauspieler)

John Lynch (* 26. Dezember 1961 in Corrinshego, County Armagh) ist ein nordirischer Schauspieler und Autor.

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[ru] Линч, Джон (актёр)

Джон Линч (англ. John Lynch; род. 26 декабря 1961, Корриньшего) — ирландский актёр, получивший известность после ролей в фильмах «Дневник террориста», «Мужской стриптиз» и «И целого мира мало», а также в сериале ABC «Однажды в сказке». Номинант на премию BAFTA.

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