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Colm MeaneyAdd to My CelebsAge 58 Birthday May. 30th, 1953 Born in Dublin, Ireland Height 5' 11" |
Colm Meaney's Main TV Roles |
Main Movie Roles2010 - Get Him To the Greek2009 - The Damned United 2009 - Law Abiding Citizen 2008 - Three and Out 2008 - Clean Break 2006 - Five Fingers 2004 - Blueberry 2004 - Layer Cake 2003 - Intermission 1999 - Mystery, Alaska 1998 - Claire Dolan 1998 - Snitch 1998 - October 22 1997 - Con Air 1996 - The Van 1995 - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain 1994 - The Road to Wellville 1994 - War of the Buttons 1992 - Under Siege 1992 - The Last of the Mohicans 1992 - Far and Away 1992 - Into The West 1991 - The Commitments 1990 - Dick Tracy 1990 - Die Hard 2: Die Harder |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
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TRIVIA:
- Despite having different names in each movie, he played the same character in _The Commitments (1991)_ (qv), _The Snapper (1993) (TV)_ (qv) and _The Van (1996)_ (qv).
- Played the same character, Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, on _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv) and _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv) for twelve consecutive years from 1987 to 1999. The only other "Star Trek" actor to do this is 'Michael Dorn (I)' (qv).
- Former son-in-law of Irish-American actor 'Vincent Dowling' (qv) and 'Brenda Doyle' (qv).
- Along with 'Patrick Stewart (I)' (qv) and 'Armin Shimerman' (qv), he is one of only three actors to appear in the pilots of two different "Star Trek" series: _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv) and _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv) for Patrick and Colm. Armin appeared in _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv) and _"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)_ (qv).
- Was offered the chance to direct an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine like his DS9 co stars Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Michael Dorn and Andrew Robinson, but declined.
- Is the only actor to appear in 14 different seasons of "Star Trek," more than any other actor (_"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv), seasons 1 through 7, and _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv), seasons 1 through 7).
- Both he and his _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv) co-star 'Rene Auberjonois' (qv), appeared in "Stargate" series, each playing the leader of a human civilization on another planet whose population lived under the surface. In both cases, the main characters of the series in question attempted to form an alliance and arrange an exchange of technology before learning that this civilization could not be trusted. Meaney played Cowen, leader of the Genii in three episodes of _"Stargate: Atlantis" (2004)_ (qv); Auberjonois played Alar, leader of the Eurondans, in one episode of _"Stargate SG-1" (1997)_ (qv).
- His role and rank in the Star Trek series took several years to evolve. Beginning as a crewman in _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv) the character of Miles O'Brien then graduated to the transporter room and was briefly a lieutenant before being made a chief petty officer, thus joining one of the very few recurring enlisted roles in Star Trek (Mr Leslie and Yeoman Rand being two others from the original series). Transferring to _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv), the O'Brien character mutated the first two seasons between a warrant officer and an ensign junior grade before again becoming enlisted as a senior chief petty officer around the fourth season. In the last seasons of _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv), the rank of senior chief was once and for all confirmed and O'Brien became the first-ever Star Trek enlisted character to be given an enlisted rank insignia collar pin.
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