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.[1][2]
Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s.[4][5]
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.[6] He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991.[7][8]
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.[12][13][14] He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.[9]
Personal lifeedit
Roe lives in Dublin. He is married to the actress and writer Michèle Forbes; they have two children.[15][4]
Referencesedit
^Dubost, Thierry (14 March 2015). The Plays of Thomas Kilroy: A Critical Study. McFarland. ISBN9780786482603 – via Google Books.
^Leeney, Cathy; McMullan, Anna (12 July 2003). The Theatre of Marina Carr: "before Rules was Made". Peter Lang. ISBN9780953425778 – via Google Books.
^. BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019.
^ ab"Owen Roe: 'Becoming a dad changed my life. It was seismic'". The Irish Times.
^Ryan, Tim (12 July 1992). Mara PJ. Blackwater Press. ISBN9780861214068 – via Google Books.
^"Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'". The Irish Times.
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