
ABOUT
Fionn O'Shea (born 2 January 1997) is an Irish actor, best known for playing Ned Roche in the 2016 film Handsome Devil and Jamie in Normal People.
BEFORE FAMEIn 2007, O'Shea made his film debut in the Irish short film New Boy; it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. In 2009, he made his feature film debut, playing an orphan boy in A Shine of Rainbows.
Between 2009 and 2012 he appeared on Roy, an Irish-British animated children's television series. In 2016, he portrayed Ned Roche in the Irish comedy-drama film Handsome Devil. At the 15th Irish Film & Television Awards in 2018, he was nominated for Actor in a leading role and Rising Star Award. In 2018 he featured on Hang Ups, a British television sitcom.
Also in 2018, he appeared in Innocent, a British television miniseries. In 2019, he played a supporting role in the drama film The Aftermath. In 2020, he played Jamie in Normal People.
RELATED TO“People went from hating me in ‘Normal People,’ to liking me in ‘Dating Amber.’ Which was good,” says Fionn O’Shea. The 23-year-old actor starred in one of the buzziest projects to come out of Ireland this year, the Hulu miniseries “Normal People.” While he played the abrasive and antagonistic Jamie, European audiences shortly after got to see O’Shea step into character as the much more empathetic Eddie in another Irish project, the film “Dating Amber.”
“I’m more like Eddie in ‘Dating Amber,’ thankfully, than I am like Jamie in ‘Normal People,” he adds. “The one thing that’s a through-line between the two [characters] is that they both are extremely anxious and insecure — and the way that they deal with that is very different.”
FUN FACTSActor Fionn O’Shea were born on Thursday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Ox, it is 1 days until Fionn O’Shea next birthday.