Owen Roe (actor)
{{Short description|Irish actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Owen Roe
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|30 May 1959}}
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
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|spouse={{marriage|Michèle Forbes|1984}}
|children=2
| nationality = Irish
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| occupation = actor, theatre director
| years_active = 1970s–present
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| notable_works = Scrap Saturday
}}Owen Roe (born 30 May 1959) is an Irish stage, film, and television actor. He performed as a satirist on Irish radio. He is also a playwright and has worked as a theatrical director.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQZtL5s7oYUC&q=%22Owen+Roe%22%2C++&pg=PA182|title=The Plays of Thomas Kilroy: A Critical Study|first=Thierry|last=Dubost|date=14 March 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786482603 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aP1D_uAeZbcC&q=%22Owen+Roe%22+&pg=PA169|title=The Theatre of Marina Carr: "before Rules was Made"|first1=Cathy|last1=Leeney|first2=Anna|last2=McMullan|date=12 July 2003|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9780953425778 |via=Google Books}}
Early life
Career
Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/owen-roe-becoming-a-dad-changed-my-life-it-was-seismic-1.4021097|title=Owen Roe: 'Becoming a dad changed my life. It was seismic'|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6wMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Owen+Roe%22,+%22Brendan+Smith+Academy%22%22|title=Mara PJ|first=Tim|last=Ryan|date=12 July 1992|publisher=Blackwater Press|isbn=9780861214068 |via=Google Books}}
Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in Hamlet. He also won a Special Tribute Award at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/owen-roe-how-can-you-study-beckett-and-not-know-anything-about-laurel-and-hardy-1.3832566|title=Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'|newspaper=The Irish Times}} He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991.{{Cite web |title=SEARCH FOR A PLAY – PlayographyIreland |url=https://irishplayography.com/play?playid=30894 |access-date=2024-05-11 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Owen+Roe%22,+%22Fear+of+Feathers%22%22|title=Theatre Ireland|date=12 July 1991|publisher=Theatre Ireland|via=Google Books}}
On TV, Roe has appeared on Scarlett, The Ambassador, Ballykissangel, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, Penny Dreadful, Vikings and Fair City.,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theagency.ie/owen-roe|title=Owen Roe|website=agency}} and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú [https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/osiochrm.php]
He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including Michael Collins (as Arthur Griffith), Intermission and Breakfast on Pluto.{{Cite web|url=https://www.voicebank.ie/artist/owen-roe|title=Voicebank Dublin|website=Voicebank Dublin}} He has received three IFTA nominations.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003728/awards|title=Owen Roe|website=IMDb}}
On radio, Roe was one-third of the Scrap Saturday political satire series, and is best remembered for his impression of P. J. Mara, loyal adviser to Charles Haughey.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xxSDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22owen+roe%22+mara&pg=PT170|title=Truly Frank: A Dublin Memoir|first=Frank|last=McDonald|date=25 October 2018|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9780241977651 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6wMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22owen+roe%22+mara|title=Mara PJ|first=Tim|last=Ryan|date=12 July 1992|publisher=Blackwater Press|isbn=9780861214068 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie//archives/2020/1120/1179417-scrap-saturday-returns/|title=Scrap Saturday Returns|website=RTÉ Archives}} He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.
Personal life
Roe lives in Dublin. He is married to the actress and writer Michèle Forbes; they have two children.{{Cite web |url=http://www.queertv.it/home/?taxonomy=&term=|title=Owen Roe}}
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External links
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Category:20th-century Irish actors
Category:21st-century Irish actors
Category:Actors from Dublin (city)
Category:Irish television actors
Category:Irish theatre directors