Owen McDonnell

Owen McDonnell Biography

Owen McDonnell (born 1974) is an Irish actor best known for playing Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in RT Television's Single-Handed.

Early life

McDonnell was born in Galway in Ireland. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, moving to the city in 1996. Before breaking into film and television, McDonnell did a lot of theatre in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Career

McDonnell had a role in the 2003 feature film Conspiracy of Silence. It was RT Television's police drama Single-Handed that was McDonnell's television career break. He starred in all four series of the programme. McDonnell was given the lead role of Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll after receiving a call from casting director Maureen Hughes. Appearing onstage in The Lieutenant of Inishmore in Galway Town Hall at the time, McDonnell, alongside two other cast members, left for Dublin to read the script for the original Single-Handed director Colm McCarthy. He was given the lead role a day later.

McDonnell appeared in RT's Wild Decembers, MI5 thriller Spooks on BBC One, crime thriller Silent Witness also on BBC One, and the first two series of sitcom Mount Pleasant on Sky1.

In 2014 McDonnell starred as Inspector Fiachra Greene in the Irish language movie An Bronntanas (The Gift), screened at the Galway Film Fleadh and later put forward as Ireland's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards (2015). The film is edited from the five-episode television series of the same name, screened on TG4 in October and November 2014.

In 2015 McDonnell starred in the hit TG4 series An Klondike, a western set in the Klondike gold rush. In 2016 he starred in Wrecking the Rising, about time travelling gobdaws who accidentally kill PH Pearse before the Easter Rising, and in the short film An Bal Bocht based on Flann O'Brien's satirical novel.

Personal life

McDonnell lives in London with his British girlfriend Jill.

Filmography

Year(s)	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Conspiracy of Silence	Noel
2007-10	Single-Handed	Sergeant Jack Driscoll	RT
2008	An Ranger	An Ranger	(Short film)
2009	Wild Decembers	Joseph Brennan	RT
2009	Spooks (series 8)	Vadim Robinov	BBC (guest star)
2009	Rsa na Gaillimhe	Eamonn O'Connell	TG4
2010	Rewind	Brendan
2011	Daybreak	Himself (Guest)	ITV
2011-12	Mount Pleasant	Jack	Sky1 (series 1 and 2)
2011	The Wright Stuff	Himself (Guest)	Channel 5
2012	A Year of Greater Love	Neil	(TV film)
2012	Saving the Titanic	Thomas Dillon	(TV film)
2013	A Terrible Beauty...	Ned Daly	(TV film)
2013	Ghost Train	Michael	(Short film)
2013	Made in Belfast	Smith
2013	Scal	Morris	TG4 (Short TV film)
2014	The Question	Dr. Fialan	(Short film)
2014	Silent Witness (Series 17)	Ryan Hodgson	BBC (guest star)
2014	An Bronntanas	Inspector Fiachra Greene	TG4 (film and TV series)
2014	Swung	David	Sigma Films (feature film)
2015-present	An Klondike	Tom Connolly	TG4 (film and TV series)
2016	My Mother and Other Strangers	Michael Coyne	BBC/RT
2017	Paula	McArthur	BBC/RT

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