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Stephen Rea

Born 1946 · Irish actor

Stephen Rea is an Irish actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his career as a member of Dublin's Focus Theatre, and played many roles on the stage and on Irish television. He came to the attention of international film audiences in Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan's 1992 film The Crying Game, and subsequently starred in many more of Jordan's films, including Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and Greta (2018). He also played a starring role in the Hugo Blick 2011 TV series The Shadow Line.

Stephen Rea, in order

  1. 1970 Cry of the Banshee: acted · directed by Gordon Hessler
  2. 1980 Caleb Williams (TV movie): acted · directed by Herbert Wise
  3. 1982 Angel: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  4. 1984 Four Days in July (TV movie): acted · directed by Mike Leigh
  5. 1984 Loose Connections: acted · directed by Richard Eyre
  6. 1984 The Company of Wolves: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  7. 1985 The Doctor and the Devils: acted · directed by Freddie Francis
  8. 1990 Life Is Sweet: acted · directed by Mike Leigh
  9. 1992 The Crying Game: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  10. 1993 Bad Behaviour: acted · directed by Les Blair
  11. 1994 Angie: acted · directed by Martha Coolidge
  12. 1994 Interview with the Vampire: acted · directed by Neil Jordan · critics 70%, audiences 86% · streaming on HBO Max
  13. 1994 Princess Caraboo: acted · directed by Michael Austin
  14. 1994 Prêt-à-Porter: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 22%, audiences 27%
  15. 1995 All Men Are Mortal: acted · directed by Ate de Jong
  16. 1995 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: acted · directed by Marion Hänsel
  17. 1995 Citizen X (TV movie): acted · directed by Chris Gerolmo
  18. 1995 Lumière and Company: acted · directed by Abbas Kiarostami and Alain Corneau · critics 100%, audiences 77%
  19. 1996 Crime of the Century (TV movie): acted · directed by Mark Rydell
  20. 1996 Michael Collins: acted · directed by Neil Jordan · critics 76%, audiences 84% · streaming on Plex, Tubi
  21. 1996 The Last of the High Kings: acted · directed by David Keating
  22. 1996 Trojan Eddie: acted · directed by Gillies MacKinnon
  23. 1997 A Further Gesture: acted · directed by Robert Dornhelm
  24. 1997 Double Tap: acted · directed by Greg Yaitanes
  25. 1997 Fever Pitch: acted · directed by David Evans
  26. 1997 Hacks: acted · directed by Gary Rosen
  27. 1997 The Butcher Boy: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  28. 1998 Still Crazy: acted · directed by Brian Gibson
  29. 1998 This Is My Father: acted · directed by Paul Quinn
  30. 1999 Guinevere: acted · directed by Audrey Wells · critics 82%, audiences 53% · streaming on Hoopla
  31. 1999 I Could Read the Sky: acted · directed by Nichola Bruce
  32. 1999 In Dreams: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  33. 1999 The End of the Affair: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  34. 1999 The Life Before This: acted · directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
  35. 2001 On the Edge: acted · directed by John Carney
  36. 2001 The Musketeer: acted · directed by Peter Hyams
  37. 2002 Copenhagen (TV movie): acted · directed by Howard Davies
  38. 2002 Evelyn: acted · directed by Bruce Beresford
  39. 2002 FeardotCom: acted · directed by William Malone
  40. 2003 Bloom: acted · directed by Sean Walsh
  41. 2004 Control: acted · directed by Tim Hunter
  42. 2004 The Confessor: acted · directed by Lewin Webb
  43. 2004 The I Inside: acted · directed by Roland Suso Richter · critics 43%, audiences 43% · streaming on Hoopla
  44. 2005 Breakfast on Pluto: acted · directed by Neil Jordan · critics 58%, audiences 80%
  45. 2005 Tara Road: acted · directed by Gillies MacKinnon
  46. 2005 V for Vendetta: acted · directed by James McTeigue · critics 73%, audiences 90% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
  47. 2006 Sisters: acted · directed by Douglas Buck
  48. 2006 Sixty Six: acted · directed by Paul Weiland
  49. 2007 Stuck: acted · directed by Stuart Gordon
  50. 2007 The Reaping: acted · directed by Stephen Hopkins
  51. 2007 Until Death: acted · directed by Simon Fellows · audiences 38% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV
  52. 2008 10 Days to War (TV series): acted
  53. 2008 Heidi 4 Paws (TV movie): acted · directed by Holly Goldberg Sloan
  54. 2008 The Devil's Mercy: acted · directed by Melanie Orr
  55. 2009 Nothing Personal: acted · directed by Urszula Antoniak
  56. 2009 Ondine: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  57. 2009 Spy(ies): acted · directed by Nicolas Saada
  58. 2011 Blackthorn: acted · directed by Mateo Gil
  59. 2011 Stella Days: acted · directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
  60. 2012 Underworld: Awakening: acted · directed by Björn Stein and Måns Mårlind
  61. 2012 Werewolf: The Beast Among Us: acted · directed by Louis Morneau
  62. 2013 Asylum: acted · directed by Todor Chapkanov
  63. 2013 Tasting Menu: acted · directed by Roger Gual
  64. 2013 Utopia (TV series): acted · directed by Marc Munden
  65. 2014 Out of the Dark: acted · directed by Lluis Quilez
  66. 2014 The Curse of Styria: acted · directed by Mark Devendorf and Mauricio Chernovetzky
  67. 2015 Dickensian (TV series): acted
  68. 2016 War and Peace (TV series): acted · directed by Tom Harper
  69. 2017 Counterpart (TV series): acted · directed by Alik Sakharov and Morten Tyldum
  70. 2018 Black '47: acted · directed by Lance Daly
  71. 2018 Greta: acted · directed by Neil Jordan
  72. 2023 The Miracle Club: acted · directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
  73. 2025 Prime Target (TV series): acted · directed by Brady Hood
  74. The Body Is Water: acted · directed by Vicky Wight
  75. Visitation: acted · directed by Nicolas Pesce
  76. You'll Never Believe Who's Dead: acted