Michael Shea
Acting
Biography
Michael Shea is known for Blue Lights (2023), Nightride (2021) and Black Medicine (2021).
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For
Derry Girls
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Blue Lights
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
An English Tale
Two young French women visit the English coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea in this story of love, Brexit and Anglo-French differences. Marion, reeling from a painful break-up, has brought her friend Delphine to the Essex seaside where Marion is reporting on Brexit. When their paths cross with two local men, Marion is forced to reckon with her emotions.
Grace
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Drop
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
Nightride
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
Hope Street
The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting.
Two Angry Men
Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959.
The Last Letter
A battle-weary soldier must deliver to his dead friend's fiancée a farewell letter that was never written.
Filmography
as Blake
as Mo McIntyre
as Detective Inspector McQueen
as Seamus Dempsey
as Ben Close / Rupert Thomas
as Harry
as Charles
as Clive / Artem
as James Ellis