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Rory Fleck Byrne (born 1988)[2] is an Irish actor and composer, known for Vampire Academy, Harlots, The Foreigner and This Is Going to Hurt.

Rory Fleck Byrne
Born	1988 (age 33–34) England
Nationality	Irish[1]
Occupation	Actor, composer

Early life

Rory Fleck Byrne was born in England but moved to Ireland when he was nine years old.[2] There he lived in Kilkenny[3] until he moved to London in 2007 to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[2] graduating in 2010.[4] He lives in London.[2]

Career

Fleck Byrne's first acting job was in Liverpool in the play Antony and Cleopatra opposite Kim Cattrall.[2] In 2014 Byrne could be seen as Harry Abrams, an assistant of the psychological researcher Joseph Coupland, in the horror movie The Quiet Ones.[5] In 2016 he played Ruby in the movie Tiger Raid.[6] In 2017 he starred as Daniel Marney in eight episodes of Harlots, a drama series about Georgian-era brothels, and the women working there.[7] Fleck Byrne's character Daniel falls in love with the madam of a low-class brothel.[8] Later in 2017 he starred opposite Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan in The Foreigner.[9] Fleck Byrne played Brosnan's nephew Sean Morrison, a former British royal navy officer.[10] He later stated that up to then this was one of the best and most challenging experiences he had ever had. He had to train with a stunt team to fight martial arts and get into the mind of a hit-man.[11] As he enjoyed martial arts so much he continued to train it after the film was finished with a personal trainer in London.[12] Fleck Byrne also worked as an actor, writer and producer in the short films Inbox and Bodies.[13] Bodies was set in his hometown Kilkenny. It is about the relationship of two funeral directors who struggle to stay connected to life.[14] Inbox was released with help of the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.[15]

Next to appearing in movies and in TV series, Fleck Byrne also can be seen on stage, in plays including King Charles III (2014–2015),[16] Anna Karenina (2016)[17] and The Phlebotomist (2018).[18]

Personal life

Next to acting Fleck Byrne also enjoys singing. In an interview he mentioned that if he had not become an actor, he would have loved to have been the frontman of a band.[11] He also writes his own songs.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Stealaway	Mike Sullivan	Film
2013	Untitled Blues	Bill Ford	Short
2014	The Quiet Ones	Harry Abrams	Film
2014	Vampire Academy	Andre Dragomir	Film
2015	Bodies	Conor	Short
2016	Tiger Raid	Ruby	Film
2017	The Date	Brian	Short
2017	Inbox	Tom	Short
2017	Pucker		Short
2017	The Foreigner	Sean Morrison	Film
2019	After the Harvest II	Cillian	Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Grantchester	Ben Blackwood	TV series, episode 1x04
2014	Damo and Ivor	Liam Delaney	TV series, episode 2x02-2x06
2016	Midsomer Murders	Dale Nevins	TV series, episode 18x06 Harvest of Souls
2016	Jack Taylor	Alan	TV series, episode 3x03 In Purgatory
2016	To Walk Invisible	Arthur Nicholls	TV movie
2017	Harlots	Daniel Marney	TV series, episode 1x01-1x08
2018	Death in Paradise	Adam Warner	TV series, episode 7x05 Murder on the Day of the Dead
2019	Ghosts	Toby Nightingale	TV series, episode 1x04 Free Pass
2022	This Is Going to Hurt	Harry	TV series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Location	References
2010	Antony and Cleopatra	Demetrius/Dollabella	Liverpool Playhouse	Liverpool	[20]
2011	Cause Célèbre	Ewen Montagu	The Old Vic	London	[21][22]
2011	Disco Pigs	Pig	Young Vic	London	[23]
2011	The Lion in Winter	Philip	Theatre Royal	Haymarket, London	[24]
2013	That Face	Henry	The Landor Theatre	London	[25]
2014	The Vortex	Nicky Lancaster	Gate Theatre	Dublin	[26]
2014	The Well Rested Terroris	Singer	Peacock	Dublin	[27]
2014–2015	King Charles III	William	Wyndham's Theatre	London	[28]
2016	Anna Karenina	Vronsky	Abbey theatre	Dublin	[17]
2018	The Phlebotomist	Aaron	Hampstead Downstairs	London	[18]

Other works

Year	Title	Type	Role	References
2014	Juno and the Paycock	BBC Radio 4 Drama	Johnny Boyle	[29]
2018	Vive la Republique	BBC Radio 4 Drama	Daniel Cohn-Bendit	[30]

References

External links

• Rory Fleck Byrne at IMDb

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