Sean McGinley
Acting
Biography
Seán McGinley is an Irish film and TV actor. He's appeared in about 80 films and television series.
Born: March 1, 1956
Place of Birth: Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ireland
Known For
Wait for Me
Alison is no girl-next-door. Dragged into a life of crime after arriving in England from Ireland. She works for small time gangster Max, whose fixation with Alison is the only reason she isn’t in prison… or dead. When she meets Sam, a damaged man with a troubled past, he opens her eyes that life can be a beautiful thing if you meet it half way.
Family
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
Family
The Spencer family live in a working class estate in Dublin.
Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Cold Feet
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
Shetland
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
The Alienist
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Filmography
as Johnny Murphy
as Brendan O'Brien
as Ged
as Liam
as Seamus Dwyer
as Henry
as Bishop Donnelly
as Peter Duffy
as Bishop Potter
as Terry
as Francis Gilroy
as Ben
as Drew McColl
as Malachy Doyle
as O'Dea
as Campbell
as Bernie
as Dennis Costello
as Grandfather
as Mr. O'Connor
as Declan Murray
as Father Denis
as Dilly
as Eddie
as I'm A Cripple
as J.P. McCallion
as Detective Louis Emeric
as Rector Cathal
as Detective Inspector Wheeler
as Joe Ryan
as Forty Thieves Leader
as Eóin
as Dr. Donald Roper
as Sweetley
as Ian O'Donnell
as Bam
as Mairtin O Cathain
as Maximillian Hase
as Roy
as Gary
as Sergeant
as Sammy McClure
as Detective Roche
as Mr D
as Sean O'Connell
as Frankie Conroy
as Tommy Breen
as Smith
as Raymie
as MacClannough
as Ferry
as Mr Duggan
as Michael
as Ferry
as Charlo Spencer
as Charlo Spencer
as Michael
as Father Chris Doran
as Doyle
as Alexie Nolan
as Utnapishtim