| Colm Meaney  Born: 30-May-1953
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Transporter Chief O'Brien in Star Trek: TNG Colm Meaney began working as an actor in Dublin. In the 1970s, he performed with the leftist 7:84 Theater Company, a troupe presenting plays for "working-class audiences", dealing with "political, social and cultural issues of inequality, prejudice and oppression." He has also performed with the Irish National Theatre.
His first film was an action picture about Neo-Nazis, Omega Syndrome with Ken Wahl and Xander Berkeley. He was briefly a regular on the soap One Life to Live, but his recurring role on the Star Trek shows in the 1990s made him a familiar face. He also had major roles in the art films The Snapper, The Commitments, and The Road to Wellville, and played the tart-tongued FBI agent in Con Air with Nicolas Cage.
On Star Trek: The Next Generation, he played Miles O'Brien, the transporter technician, and on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine he was promoted to Chief of Operations. Since Star Trek, he has appeared in The Boys from County Clare, Bad Apple, Layer Cake. His performance as Harry in How Harry Became A Tree won Meaney a Best Actor award at the 2003 Newport Beach Film Festival. Wife: Bairbre Dowling (actress, Zardoz, b. 1953, div. 1993, one daughter)
Daughter: Ada (b. 2004, with a girlfriend not publicly identified)
Irish Ancestry
TELEVISION
The Murdoch Mysteries Inspector Brackeneid (2004)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Miles O'Brien (1993-99)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Transporter Chief O'Brien (1987-94)
One Life to Live Patrick London (1987-88)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Five Fingers (1-May-2006)
Covert One: The Hades Factor (9-Apr-2006)
Caved In (7-Jan-2006)
Battle of the Brave (19-Nov-2004)
Layer Cake (1-Oct-2004)
Bad Apple (16-Feb-2004)
Blueberry (11-Feb-2004)
The Boys from County Clare (12-Sep-2003)
Intermission (29-Aug-2003)
King of Texas (23-Mar-2002)
How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Backflash (2001)
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (7-Nov-1999)
Mystery Alaska (1-Oct-1999)
Four Days (12-Sep-1999)
Money Kings (4-Dec-1998)
This is My Father (14-Jun-1998)
Claire Dolan (May-1998)
Snitch (20-Jan-1998)
Con Air (6-Jun-1997)
Owd Bob (1997)
The Last of the High Kings (6-Dec-1996)
The Van (11-May-1996)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (12-May-1995)
Scarlett (13-Nov-1994)
The Road to Wellville (28-Oct-1994)
War of the Buttons (1994)
The Snapper (6-Aug-1993)
Into the West (11-Dec-1992)
Under Siege (9-Oct-1992)
The Last of the Mohicans (26-Aug-1992)
Far and Away (22-May-1992)
The Commitments (14-Aug-1991)
Come See the Paradise (23-Dec-1990)
Die Hard 2 (4-Jul-1990)
Dick Tracy (15-Jun-1990)
The Dead (11-Dec-1987)
Omega Syndrome (1987)
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III (1987)
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