John Lynch

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1961-12-26

Place of Birth

Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK
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John Lynch

Biography

John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. 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), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

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Acting History

2025
Sew Torn as Hudson Armitage
2024
The Watchers as Kilmartin
2023
Blue Lights as James McIntyre
2023
Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
2021
Boys from County Hell as George Bogue
2021
The Banishing as Malachi
2020
Caravan as Sam
2020
The Head as Arthur Wilde
2018
Kissing Candice as Donal
2018
Paul, Apostle of Christ as Aquila
2017
Number One as Gary
2017
Upstream as Sean
2017
Pilgrimage as The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
2017
Detour as Frank Malone
2016
One of Us as Bill Douglas
2016
Alleycats as Redman
2015
The Trials of Jimmy Rose as DI Steve McIntyre
2014
Scintilla as Powell
2014
The Assets as Vitaly Yurchenko
2013
Crossing Lines as Frankie
2013
The Fall as Jim Burns
2013
Shetland as Frank Blake
2013
Möbius as Joshua
2012
Labyrinth as Simeon de Montfort
2012
Private Peaceful as Sergeant Hanley
2011
Ghosted as Jack
2011
Vera as Edmund Fulwell
2011
Night of the Hunt as Narrator (voice)
2010
13Hrs as McRae
2010
Black Death as Wolfstan
2010
Mo as Gerry Adams
2009
Holy Water as Tom Gaffney
2009
The Tournament as Gene Walker
2008
Merlin as Balinor
2008
The Passion as Sagan
2008
In Tranzit as Yakov
2007
Movie Connections as Self
2007
The Yellow House as Paul Gaugin
2005
Lassie as Sam Carraclough
2005
Isolation as Dan
2005
Bleak House as Nemo / Captain James Hawdon
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Captain Alvarado
2003
Alien Hunter as Dr. Michael Straub
2003
Conspiracy of Silence
2002
Evelyn as Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
2002
Spooks as Davie King
2002
The Jury as Alan Lane
2002
Puckoon as O'Brien
2001
The Seventh Stream as Tomas Dunhill
2000
Boston Public as Jerry
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Sean O'Casey
2000
Best as George Best
1998
The Quarry as The Man
1998
Sliding Doors as Gerry
1997
Trial & Retribution
1997
This Is the Sea as Padhar McAliskey
1996
Nothing Personal as Liam
1996
Some Mother's Son as Bobby Sands
1996
Arli$$
1996
Moll Flanders as Fielding
1996
Silent Witness as Tom Flannery
1995
Angel Baby as Harry
1994
Princess Caraboo as Amon McCarthy
1994
Words Upon the Window Pane as John Corbet
1994
The Secret of Roan Inish as Tadhg
1993
In the Name of the Father as Paul Hill
1993
The Secret Garden as Lord Archibald Craven
1993
Peak Practice as Father Mel Davey
1992
Monkey Boy as Peter Carson
1992
The Railway Station Man as Damian Sweeney
1991
Edward II as Spencer
1991
Out of the Blue as Rudy
1991
Chimera as Peter Carson
1991
All Good Things as Vincent Gibney
1990
Hardware as Shades
1990
1871 as O'Brien
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham? as IRA man in cottage
1989
Making Out
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Stephen Dedalus
1988
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Stephen Dedalus
1986
Waiting Tables
1984
Cal as Cal
1983
Natural World as Narrator
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Tomas Dunhill