Education
Born in Carndonagh, County Donegal, his career began when he graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in June 1998.
Born in Carndonagh, County Donegal, his career began when he graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in June 1998.
He has appeared in many plays for the Abbey Theatre and Peacock Theatre including Making History, Lovers at Versailles and Tartuffe. In 2004, he played homosexual Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome sufferer Declan Breen in the film The Blackwater Lightship for Columbia Broadcasting System, adapted from Colm Tóibín"s original novel. In 2006, he played Vernon Todmann in the movie Flyboys opposite James Franco and Jean Reno.
He is best known as Barry in all three series of Bachelors Walk for RTÉ.
From 2008 - 2013, he appeared in the RTÉ series Raw playing the character of Shane Harte, in which he was nominated for outstanding actor in a television drama at the 49th Monte-Carlo Television Festival.