Robert Michael Sheehan is an Irish actor. He is best known for television roles as Nathan Young in Misfits and Darren in Love/Hate, as well as the 2009 film Cherrybomb alongside Rupert Grint. He has also co-starred in the film Killing Bono, alongside Ben Barnes, as Ivan McCormick.
Education
He played the banjo, the bodhrán, and the spoons at school, joking that he was like "Footloose with spoons", and participated in Fleadh Ceoils while at school. He first became interested in acting in primary school, in St. Paul's in Portlaoise, when he played Oliver in "Oliver with a Twist".
He studied for a year at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology at the age of 17, but left his course of Film and TV studies after a year as he failed and did not return for the repeats, deciding that life behind the camera was not for him.
Career
2003 An Cuainín Duncan's son Short
Song for a Raggy Boy O'Reilly 58
A Dublin Story Clocker Short
2006 Ghostwood Tim
2007 An Créatúr Conor Buckley Short
2008 Summer of the Flying Saucer Danny
Lowland Fell Mark Short
2009 Cherrybomb Luke
2010 A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures Ray (voice) Animation
Acts of God Dorian Pre-production
2011 Season of the Witch Kay
Demons Never Die Archie
Killing Bono Ivan McCormick
The Borrowers Spiller BBC One television film
2012 Romeo and Brittney Romeo Directed by David Baddiel
He recently starred in John Crowley's production of J. M. Synge's comic play The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic Theatre, London, which finished in November, 2011.