Kevin Trainor is an Irish actor from Kilkeel, County Down, Northern
Ireland. He attended St Colman's College in Newry before attending
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read English. After Cambridge,
Trainor trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 2001 to 2004
(making an early cameo appearance in the 2001 film The Hole) and
appeared in the 2005 Royal Shakespeare Company season.He is notable
for portraying the younger version of Trevor Bruttenholm (played as an
older man by John Hurt) in the film Hellboy; as the character John in
The Catherine Tate Show (from the "Ulster Mum" series of sketches); as
Charles Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams; and as "living statue"
Keiran Barker in Sky 1 television comedy drama The Café.Trainor
earned critical accolades for his appearance in the special flash-back
episode that launched the 2014 second series of Channel 4's Utopia.
His performance as Mr Omida, an immaculate and punctilious torturer,
was described by Metro as "the most chilling torturer committed to
screen in a long time" and by Geeks Unleashed as "the very neat,
precise and sinister Mr Omida, who wins the creepiest man alive
award".In 2008, Trainor appeared as Moth to Peter Bowles's Don Armado
in Sir Peter Hall's Love's Labour's Lost at the Rose Theatre,
Kingston.
Ireland. He attended St Colman's College in Newry before attending
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read English. After Cambridge,
Trainor trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 2001 to 2004
(making an early cameo appearance in the 2001 film The Hole) and
appeared in the 2005 Royal Shakespeare Company season.He is notable
for portraying the younger version of Trevor Bruttenholm (played as an
older man by John Hurt) in the film Hellboy; as the character John in
The Catherine Tate Show (from the "Ulster Mum" series of sketches); as
Charles Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams; and as "living statue"
Keiran Barker in Sky 1 television comedy drama The Café.Trainor
earned critical accolades for his appearance in the special flash-back
episode that launched the 2014 second series of Channel 4's Utopia.
His performance as Mr Omida, an immaculate and punctilious torturer,
was described by Metro as "the most chilling torturer committed to
screen in a long time" and by Geeks Unleashed as "the very neat,
precise and sinister Mr Omida, who wins the creepiest man alive
award".In 2008, Trainor appeared as Moth to Peter Bowles's Don Armado
in Sir Peter Hall's Love's Labour's Lost at the Rose Theatre,
Kingston.
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