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Daragh O'Malley was born on 25 May, 1954 in Dublin, Ireland. Discover Daragh O'Malley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Actor/Producer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1954
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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2021

In 2021 O'Malley appeared as Snuffy the Hitman in the UK Premiere of David Ireland's Yes, So I said Yes at Chelsea's Finborough Theatre which was well received. The Spectator called O'Malley's performance "astonishing" while The Guardian called it "indominatable " O'Malley garnered his second BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE 2021 nomination at The West End Offie Awards

In 2021 it is rumoured that O'Malley began production in Prague as a new character in the sequel to the multi million selling video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance

In 2021 O'Malley appeared in Yes, So I said Yes at Chelsea's Finborough Theatre which was well received. The Spectator called O'Malley's performance "astonishing" and O'Malley received his second BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE 2021 nomination at The West End Offie Awards

2019

O'Malley's mother, Hilda Moriarty, was Patrick Kavanagh's inspiration for the poem Dark Miriam Ran Away, later put to the air of The Dawning of the Day and renamed Raglan Road at the request of the poet when he met the singer Luke Kelly of The Dubliners; it has been recorded by Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor and Billy Joel. In 2019 On Raglan Road was voted Ireland's All Time Favourite Folk Song in a national TV poll.

In 2019 O'Malley appeared in a series of award winning TV commercials for Allianz Insurance entitled We Cover Courage, a high-end dramatization of the announcement of the revolutionary Free Education scheme in Ireland in 1967. The Allianz commercials were directed by Richie Smyth (The Siege of Jadotville).

2017

In 2017, O'Malley was nominated for a West End Offie Award for his performance as the crooked police chief Ivan in the UK premiere of Maxine Gorky's The Last Ones at The Jermyn Street Theatre.

2015

In 2015, O'Malley was nominated for an MTA Award and STAGE Best Actor Award for his performance as Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

2014

In late 2014, O'Malley appeared as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. O'Malley was nominated as Best Actor at The MTA Theatre Awards - MTA stated "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof seethes with unhappy people circling the central character, patriarch Big Daddy. Daragh O’Malley blisters his way through this famous role like a raging bull with great physical presence tempered by emotional vulnerability". The Times called O'Malley's performance as Big Daddy "towering in every sense of the word".

2011

In 2011 O'Malley turned his focus back to the stage and appeared in a slew of stage productions in the US and in the UK in quick succession. Among over a dozen stage productions O'Malley appeared as Father Jack in a revival of Dancing at Lughnasa, which was nominated for an MTA Best Production Award, and followed that by playing John Rainey in a London revival of Irvine's Mixed Marriage, which received positive reviews. In 2014, O'Malley appeared as Big Daddy in a widely acclaimed production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, for which he was nominated for an MTA Best Actor award. UK's The Stage selected O'Malley's performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as one of the Top Five Performances in UK theatre in 2014. In 2015 O'Malley appeared in a 16 week UK tour of Emylyn Williams Night Must Fall and in 2017 O'Malley played a crooked Russian police officer in an award winning production of Gorky's The Last Ones at The Jermyn Street Theatre . In 2022, O'Malley appeared as Snuffy The Hitman in David Ireland's much heralded Yes, So I said Yes at The Finborough in London. Also in 2022, it was announced that O'Malley would play the screen legend Marlon Brando in the one-man stage play Brando which is being developed by the Sundance Theatre Forum with The Brando Estate.

In 2011, O'Malley returned to the stage, appearing as Father Jack in a UK production of Brien Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and as trade unionist John Rainey in an acclaimed London production of Irving's Mixed Marriage. Michael Billington of The Guardian described O'Malley's performance as "magnificent" in "the most compelling play in London".

In 2011, a production of Dancing at Lughnasa in which O'Malley appeared as Father Jack was nominated for an MTA Award.

2010

O'Malley was founder of The Sharpe's Children Foundation, a charity designed to fight poverty with education and take orphaned and destitute children off the streets of the Third World and into residential primary education. The SCF was launched at Apsley House, London, home of the Duke of Wellington, in October 2010. Team India, sponsored by The Sharpe's Children Foundation and made up of children who lived in railway carriages at Delhi Railway Station and who played football in the railway yards, won The Street Children's World Cup in Durban, South Africa in 2010. The Sharpe's Children Foundation was chosen as World Charity of The Year in 2012 by Intellectual Property Magazine and was integrated with The Consortium for Street Children later that year.

2006

O'Malley was one of the last people to spend time with former Taoiseach Charles Haughey before he died. Haughey, who was O'Malley's father's best friend, requested a meeting with O'Malley in his final days and O'Malley spent an afternoon in June 2006 with a very ill Haughey at his home in Dublin, accompanied by Noel Pearson, producer of the film My Left Foot Haughey died three days later.

2004

O'Malley has seemingly been approached many times over the years by the Fianna Fáil party to put his name forward for election in his father's constituency, then Limerick East now Limerick City, but on each occasion O'Malley declined the invitation. On the Sam Smyth Radio Show in 2004, O'Malley stated, "The stress of politics, one of the great performance arts, killed my father at 47 – while I would like nothing better than appearing in the great theatre that is Dáil Éireann [the Irish parliament] even for just one day, I feel the price one would pay is far too high. Politics I have discovered, is a thankless activity which only breeds animosity and ultimately ends in failure – no matter how well intentioned one is."

1998

In Los Angeles, O'Malley won a Drama-Logue Best Actor Award for his 1998 performance as Sweeney in Patrick Marber's Dealers Choice at The Mark Taper Forum.

1993

Among many TV appearances O'Malley is known for his portrayal of Patrick Harper in the long-running [1993-2009] Sharpe TV series with Sean Bean. O'Malley first appeared in roles in the films The Long Good Friday and Withnail and I, leading guest roles in many UK television series including Tales of the Unexpected, Waking The Dead, Wire in the Blood, Silent Witness and Vera, and roles in Longitude, Cleopatra for ABC and The Magnificent Seven for CBS and in the US TV film Vendetta, as well as Camelot and Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal. O'Malley also played Irish explorer Tom Crean in the epic Central 8 part television series The Last Place on Earth with Hugh Grant and Martin Shaw and Max Von Sydow.

O'Malley married Gabrielle Leavy in June 1993 at Farm Street Church in London.

1992

From 1992 to 2009, O'Malley appeared with Sean Bean in the iconic ITV series Sharpe, filmed in Ukraine, Crimea, Portugal, Turkey, India and at various locations in the UK. Sharpe is considered to be one of the most successful British TV series ever made and having been digitalized is still seen in 120 countries around the world. It has been dubbed into many languages from Spanish to Hindi. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron's only job outside of politics was as PR for Sharpe when he worked as Director of Communications for Carlton Television who produced the Sharpe series.

In 1992 O'Malley sued Rupert Murdoch, Gill and McMillan/WH Allen and The Sunday Press for criminal libel, over an article which appeared on the front page of the News of the World and was copied in subsequent publications, which linked O'Malley and Patrick Duffy with the IRA. The case was settled on the steps of Ireland's High Court, with Murdoch - who appeared to have taken a personal interest in the case - accepting "that there was no truth whatsoever in the News of The World article which we published on our front page", resulting in Murdoch et al paying O'Malley a sum plus costs, which at the time was "the highest libel settlement in the history of the Irish State".

1990

In the mid-1990s, O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in the ill-fated feature Divine Rapture, which also starred Marlon Brando, John Hurt and Johnny Depp. The production collapsed a few weeks into filming when Orion, the major Los Angeles production company backing the film, suddenly went bankrupt. O'Malley lived in Los Angeles for many years and after the collapse of Divine Rapture remained close to Brando. O'Malley and Brando were working on a film version of The Merchant of Venice - with Brando due to play Shylock - when Brando died. On Brando's death the project went into turnaround and was subsequently picked up with Al Pacino as Shylock. O'Malley bowed out and was not involved in the production of the Pacino film.

1954

Daragh Gerard Marion O'Malley (born 25 May 1954) is an Irish actor, director and producer. He was born in Dublin, Ireland.

Daragh O'Malley was born in Holles Street Hospital in Dublin on 25 May 1954 to a politician, Donogh, and a medical doctor Hilda (née Moriarty). He was raised in Limerick and educated by the Jesuits at Crescent College.

On the day that O'Malley was born, his father, Donogh O'Malley, an engineer, was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time. Donogh O'Malley served as a TD for Limerick East from 1954 to 1968 and as his country's Minister for Health and later Minister for Education. As Minister for Education Donogh O'Malley is credited with sparking a major upsurge in the Irish economy and the improvement of the quality of life in Ireland by introducing free education at secondary and third level.