Domhnall gleeson He was born on May 12, 1983 in the city of Dublin (Ireland), the eldest of the four children of actor Brendan Gleeson and his wife María. Domhnall studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology, but decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, participating in numerous plays that led him, in 2006, to work on Broadway, with “The Lieutenant of Inishmore”, where he played Davey, a Role for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor. He also starred in the plays “American Buffalo” and “Great Expectations.”
After filming with his father, the short film “Six Shooter” (2004) by Martin McDonagh, he made his film debut in the film “Boy Eats Girl” (2005), which was followed by “A Dog Year” (2009) , with Jeff Bridges and “Perrier’s Bounty” (2009), with Gabriel Byrne and Cillian Murphy.
The last years saw him very active with important performances in feature films such as “Dredd”, “Anna Karenina”, “A matter of time (About time)”, “Frank” or “Calvary”, among others.
He has also worked on four other titles that are in various stages of filming and production. The first of them is the biographical drama “Unbroken”, about the life of the Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, directed by Angelina Jolie; “Ex Machina” is a science fiction thriller in which you have the leading role of Caleb and in which he is seconded by Oscar Isaac; “Brooklyn”, for its part, is a romantic drama about Irish immigrants, set in the 1950s, in which Domhnall stars alongside Saoirse Ronan; And finally the actor is one of the main protagonists of the new installment of the famous Star Wars saga: “Star Wars: Episode VII”, whose premiere is scheduled for 2015.