Martin McCann (born 20 July 1983) is an actor from Northern Ireland.
In 2020, he was listed as number 48 on The Irish Times list of
Ireland's greatest film actors.McCann was born to Martin John Paul and
Anne McCann. He grew up with a brother and sister in the working-class
Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. He joined YouthAction NI's
Rainbow Factory, a cross-community drama troop for Catholic and
Protestant children and also got to spend time in the United States in
the summer as part of an exchange programme. His mother found a role
for him by checking the local newspapers, and he soon won the stage
production part of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist. He also got lead
roles in productions of Bugsy Malone and The Crucible.Popular in
Northern Ireland for various sketches (including the trendy priest) in
Dry Your Eyes, he had a feature role in a short film by Simon
Fitzmaurice called The Sound of People. He followed that up with his
feature film debut (as Jimmy Riley) in Closing the Ring (2007),
directed by Richard Attenborough. Attenborough cast McCann in the film
after seeing him in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. McCann
had a role in the film My Boy Jack (as Guardsman Bowe), about Rudyard
Kipling and his son, who was killed in World War I.
In 2020, he was listed as number 48 on The Irish Times list of
Ireland's greatest film actors.McCann was born to Martin John Paul and
Anne McCann. He grew up with a brother and sister in the working-class
Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. He joined YouthAction NI's
Rainbow Factory, a cross-community drama troop for Catholic and
Protestant children and also got to spend time in the United States in
the summer as part of an exchange programme. His mother found a role
for him by checking the local newspapers, and he soon won the stage
production part of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist. He also got lead
roles in productions of Bugsy Malone and The Crucible.Popular in
Northern Ireland for various sketches (including the trendy priest) in
Dry Your Eyes, he had a feature role in a short film by Simon
Fitzmaurice called The Sound of People. He followed that up with his
feature film debut (as Jimmy Riley) in Closing the Ring (2007),
directed by Richard Attenborough. Attenborough cast McCann in the film
after seeing him in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. McCann
had a role in the film My Boy Jack (as Guardsman Bowe), about Rudyard
Kipling and his son, who was killed in World War I.
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