Gleeson as Professor Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor who was born on March 29, 1955 in Dublin, Ireland. He lives in Malahide, Co. Dublin. Image File history File links Gleesonmoodyclassroom. ... Image File history File links Gleesonmoodyclassroom. ... Alastor Mad-Eye Moody is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books, an ex-Auror working for the Order of the Phoenix. ... Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter series, begun with the novel by J.K. Rowling. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Dublin (Irish Áth Cliath) is the area that contains the City of Dublin, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland; and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. ...

Biography

Brendan Gleeson as Hamish Campbell in Braveheart.

Graduating from University College Dublin he worked for several years as a secondary school teacher in Belcamp College, in North County Dublin. Image File history File links Hamishc. ... Image File history File links Hamishc. ... It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: See talk page for reasoning. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ...

He had been a teacher before becoming an actor. He and his wife, Mary, have been married since 1982 and have four sons, Domhnall, Fergus, Brían and Rory. Brendan is also a very talented fiddle player. He is good friends with fellow Irish actor Liam Neeson. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William John Liam Neeson OBE, born in Ballymena, Ireland on the 7th of June, 1952, is an Oscar-nominated Northern Irish actor. ...

Career

He started acting at age 34 and has acted in over 30 films including Braveheart, Michael Collins, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, and The Village. He frequently appears in the role of mentor or authority figure; he played Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody in the fourth Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and will reprise the role in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Gleeson won critical acclaim for playing Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General in 1998. Braveheart is an epic American motion picture released in 1995 based on the life of William Wallace, a national hero in Scotland. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cold Mountain is a novel by Charles Frazier, which was adapted by Anthony Minghella into a film in 2003. ... 28 Days Later (2002) is a low-budget post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. ... Troy is a movie released on May 14, 2004 about the Trojan War, which is described in Homers Iliad and other Greek myths as having taken place in Anatolia (modern Turkey) around the 13th or 12th century BC. It stars, among others: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as... Kingdom of Heaven is a film released on May 6, 2005, written by William Monahan, and directed and produced by Ridley Scott. ... The Village could refer to: The Village, a film by M. Night Shyamalan The Village, a book by Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin The Village, a poem by George Crabbe The Village, a nickname for the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan The Village, the main setting of the television series The Prisoner... Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a fictional school of magic that is the main setting of the Harry Potter series. ... Alastor Mad-Eye Moody is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books, an ex-Auror working for the Order of the Phoenix. ... The Harry Potter books are an immensely popular series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. ... Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter series, begun with the novel by J.K. Rowling. ... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (due out in 2007) is a film based on J.K. Rowlings fifth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. ... Martin Cahill, (May 23, 1949 – August 18, 1994) was a prominent Irish criminal. ... John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey, United Kingdom), is a British filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The General. ... The General is a name which has been applied to several things: The General (The student voice of Wooster), the school newspaper of Wooster School, Danbury, CT The General, a locomotive stolen in the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War The 1927 movie The General: Buster Keatons...

Selected filmography

• Beowulf (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - Mad-Eye Moody
• Black Irish (2006) - Desmond
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Mad-Eye Moody
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005) - Reynald
• The Village (2004) - August Nicholson
• Troy (2004) - Menelaus
• Cold Mountain (2003) - Stobrod Thewes
• Dark Blue (2002) - Jack Van Meter
• Gangs of New York (2002) - Walter 'Monk' McGinn
• 28 Days Later (2002) - Frank
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) - Lord Johnson-Johnson
• The Tailor of Panama (2001) - Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas
• Mission Impossible II (2000) - John C. McCloy
• Lake Placid (1999) - Sheriff Hank Keough
• This Is My Father (1998) - Garda Jim
• The General (1998) - Martin Cahill
• I Went Down (1997) - Bunny Kelly
• Michael Collins (1996) - Liam Tobin
• Braveheart (1995) - Hamish Campbell
• Into the West (1992) - Inspector Bolger
• Far and Away (1992) - Social Club Policeman
• The Field (1990) - Quarryman
• The Treaty (1990) - Michael Collins

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External link

• Brendan Gleeson at the Internet Movie Database